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I had just finished packing my suitcase and refueling my rental car, ready to depart L’Agulhas, a sleepy fishing village built on the soft green hills and limestone rocks of Africa’s southernmost ...

Raymond Ross is the new mayor of the Cape Agulhas Municipality. The former mayor was removed by a no-confidence vote after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of misconduct. Ross, from the ...

No one is sure of the exact date, but it was around 1850 that farmer Pieter Albertyn shot the last hippo of the southern Cape, near the bottom of Africa. In 2009 his great-grandson Dirk Human released ...

Children from Struisbaai who have never seen the southern tip of Africa now have a chance to visit. South African National Parks bought a 35-seater bus to transport young children from surrounding ...

The Department of Tourism in partnership with SANParks and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on Tuesday officially launched the R81.9 million Cape Agulhas Lighthouse Precinct.

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Lawyers for Total Energies were back in court for the second day at the Western Cape High Court. They presented their arguments on the government authorisation they received for oil and gas ...

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