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Diamonds the Richtersveld’s worst friend as infighting and illegal mining tears community apart
Alleged illegal diamond mining is taking place on communally owned land in the remote Richtersveld, leaving the landscape and the !Ama (Nama) people devastated. In the farthest corners of the ...
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The Port in the North
Port Nolloth’s backstory is extensive and intriguing, having lived through a copper mining boom, World War One, the discovery ...
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17 Years Later: Richtersveld land claim beneficiaries still waiting for payout
Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News Routes leading to most remote towns in the Richtersveld in the Northern Cape are gravel. This impacts the way services like health care are delivered ...
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Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
The 160,000 ha Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape of dramatic mountainous desert in north-western South Africa constitutes a cultural landscape communally owned and managed. This site ...
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Into the wild: Land Cruiser 79 conquers the rugged Richtersveld
Toyota’s Land Cruiser 79 is put through its paces in the unforgiving terrain of the Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park in the Northern Cape. IT STARTED with a Toyota Hilux GR Sport III and ...
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Mining, succulent poaching and drought push species to the brink in the Richtersveld
The relentless extraction of minerals has led to environmental degradation that threatens the biodiversity in the Richtersveld area of the Northern Cape. In combination with increasing levels of ...