The smallest tortoise in the world lives on South Africa’s west coast, and a button-shaped succulent endemic to a tiny area of the Northern Cape can be found nowhere else in the world. But the area’s ...

The permission follows the company's 2024 application for the drilling of exploration or appraisal wells in the Northern Cape ...

Shell announced on Friday that it has received environmental approval to drill five deepwater wells near the west coast of South Africa.

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 ...