South Africa is home to three of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. One is the Succulent Karoo, covering 116 000 km 2 in Western and Northern Cape provinces and across the border into Namibia. The ...

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At 96, Patricia Bate still enjoys the garden she grew with her late husband Noel, but at her age she needs plants that look after themselves. Her lush oasis at Ulladulla on the New South Wales south ...

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?