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On the Berg, the first peaches are ripe for the picking, while in nearby Porterville they had the Art for All festival.

Updating my “writers’ habits of spending” (which I wonder, too, why I didn’t call it “Writers’ Spending Habits”)… Fitzgerald looks to be another of these writers drive…

“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

Rose and Eros are anagrams, so are Heart and Earth. We all really need to be talking about this a lot more.

Patrick Hickey - Dynamics of mitochondria (green) and chloroplasts (red) in Turtle Vine leaf cells  (Callisia repens)

This Heritage Day, NCHERS undertakes its fifth Walk of Remembrance not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a symbolic act of resistance against the slow violence of forgetting.…

Hopefield Fynbos Skou & Piketberg Blommeweek (transmitted Thursday, 24 Sept 2026)

Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23, becoming the first of its species to be sighted and filmed in False Bay in nearly eight...

In a case study, parents responded positively to their children being taught science in two languages.

Section 1: What are we allowed to wear?

Quick Etymology #1 Did you know that etymologically speaking, the word terrain means “dry land”? Way back in time, when the Indo-Europeans were roaming their little part of the world, the root word ...

This week's highlight was the Darling Wildflower Show

December 31.

I’ve still got a few ‘old’ stories in my archive from the days of publishing on WordPress. This is one amalgamation of those stories, relating to a nice road trip through the Karoo.

Most of the week was spent irrigating buchu on the farm followed by a short visit to Oam & Opa in Durbanville

<p><em>We assume consciousness requires a human or animal brain—an assumption that author and philosopher of science <strong>Natalie Lawrence</strong> argues is the biggest obstacle to understanding w...

Before getting into the actual farming of grain and grapes in the Western Cape, plant ecologist Eugene Moll walks me through what the land actually is that farms replaced.…

Several puff adders have been caught in and around Cape Town's CBD, prompting a warning as warmer weather brings increased snake activity.

Today, I can hold that fraction of a second in my hands thirteen years later.

Afrikaans is uniek. Die taal het nie ’n enkele oorsprong nie, dit is eerder ’n mengelmoes van verskeie tale. In 1652 het die Nederlandse kolonialiste begin handel dryf met die inheemse Khoi-bevolking....

The Secrets of the Okavango Delta — Article No. 10