For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

South Africa’s West Coast wears its ruggedness with pride. It doesn’t chase luxury—it embraces wind, salt, and raw beauty. ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

The Cape West Coast offers visitors boatloads of ... One of the oldest fishing villages in South Africa, ... History enthusiasts can visit the Elands Bay Cave, which features ancient San rock ...

A detail from the Catalan Atlas showing the Western Sahara. (Image credit: Attributed to Abraham Cresques; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain) The Mali Empire ruled much of West Africa starting in ...

The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...