The Richtersveld region is renowned for having the highest percentage of succulent plants in the world. However, over 400 of these species are now threatened with extinction due to mining, ...

The Richtersveld Communal Property Association (CPA) was established to manage and benefit from the land returned to the ...

The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape has full legal protection. The process of declaring the property as a Heritage Area was completed in early 2007. The traditional land-use system of ...

The Richtersveld people have lived on the land straddling the Namibia-South Africa border for centuries. But they were evicted from part of their ancestral lands when diamonds were discovered ...

The Richtersveld, a mountainous desert, often appears barren to newcomers. Yet its flora is astonishing, wildly unique – and richer in species than any comparable arid area on Earth.

ActionAid South Africa and the Richtersveld community have described simmering tension and violence in the area over the past two weeks and have called on government to ‘urgently intervene’.

THE people of the remote Richtersveld area near the Namibian border have lost the first round of their long legal battle against the state diamond company Alexkor to reclaim their land. The people ...

Temperatures in the Richtersveld community, which won a multi-million rand land claim in 2007, are rising - and not just because summer is on its way. Richtersveld tensions wind up in court Home Page ...

Where: Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa and Namibia Route: Sendelingsdrif, South Africa to Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort, Namibia Total distance: 200km (approx.) ...

Despite the recent inscription, the World Heritage Centre was informed in November 2007 that the State Party had granted to Bushmanland Minerals (Pty) Ltd a “Prospecting permit to prospect for all ...