# The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town is inviting families to explore South Africa’s marine heritage during the school holidays. The ‘Sea Local, Love Local’ campaign runs from Thursday to 5 October, featuring animal feeding sessions, children’s activities and extended opening hours. Visitors can learn more about local species including the galjoen, red stumpnose, […]
# Die adjunkminister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Bernice Swarts, gaan Donderdag op Erfenisdag ‘n landwye veldtog lei om 10-miljoen bome te plant. Dis deel van president Cyril Ramaphosa se Een-Miljard-Bome-program, om burgers aan te spoor om die uitwerking van klimaatsverandering te beperk. Swarts sal die hoofgeleentheid in Vryheidspark in Pretoria lei voor sy […]
# Deputy minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts, will lead a nationwide campaign to plant ten million trees on Heritage Day on Thursday. This forms part of president Cyril Ramaphosa’s One Billion Trees Programme to mobilise citizens to mitigate climate change. Swarts will lead the main event at Freedom Park in Pretoria […]
# Wetenskaplikes het ‘n nuwe wildekatspesie in Bolivia geïdentifiseer – die eerste lewende katspesie wat in meer as ‘n eeu formeel beskryf is. Die klein gespikkelde kat, wat as die “Tilcayo” bekend staan, leef in die Yungas-oerwoud waar die Andesgebergte en die Amasone-reënwoud mekaar ontmoet. Dit is kleiner as ‘n gemiddelde huiskat en weeg ongeveer […]
# Scientists have identified a new species of wild cat in Bolivia, the first living feline species to be formally described in more than a century. Called the Tilcayo, the small spotted cat lives in the Yungas cloud forest, where the Andes meet the Amazon. It is smaller than an average domestic cat and weighs […]
# ‘n Bejaarde vrou van Oekraïne het ‘n gevorderde Russiese hommeltuig met haar kaal hande gedeaktiveer. Beeldmateriaal uit die Zaporizjzja-gebied toon hoe die ouma kalm na die kamikaze-hommeltuig stap wat op die grond gelê het. Sy het die toestel se vesel-optiese beheerkabel uitgeruk, wat die sein heeltemal afgesny het. Die video het wêreldwyd aandag getrek, […]
# An elderly Ukrainian woman has disabled a high-tech Russian drone with her bare hands. Footage from the Zaporizhzhia region shows the grandmother calmly approaching the grounded kamikaze drone, which was lying in wait for a target. She disabled the device by ripping out its fibre-optic control cable, completely severing the pilot’s signal. While the […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die hernoemde Tutu-gedenkpark in Milnerton is nog ʼn manier waarop die metro wyle aartsbiskop Desmond Tutu en sy vrou, Leah, vereer. Die Lupin-singel-park waar Tutu en sy vrou dekades lank gewoon het, word verander in ʼn kindervriendelike ontspanningsgebied met ʼn hondepark, blomtuin en buitelug-amfiteater. Hill-Lewis sê die park […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the renamed Tutu Memorial Park in Milnerton is another way the metro is honouring the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, Leah. The Lupin Crescent Park, where the couple lived for decades, is being transformed into a child-focused dog park, flower garden, and outdoor amphitheatre. Hill-Lewis says […]
