Questions are being asked about the appointment of a 71-year-old amateur radio enthusiast to a team addressing technical challenges on South Africa's remote Marion Island.

Mining company in which Patrice Motsepe has major stake wants to dig for fertiliser near site of earliest known human footsteps

Residents of sleepy Simon's Town have long complained about losing the battle against raiding baboons.

Ten years ago wildlife conservationist John Hume agreed to sell a big chunk of Cape Town mountainside to expand Table Mountain National Park – on condition he keep part of it for himself.

Pastor and politician Jerome Swartz heads a church seeking to help Christian souls move closer to heaven. Meanwhile, Standard Bank has targeted Swartz's real estate here on Earth, including his upmarket home in Cape Town.

A real estate executive has sparked an unusual boundary dispute in Muizenberg with his plans to enclose a shared viewing deck.

A bitter dispute over exploring the wreckage of an SAA passenger aircraft that crashed into the ocean 58 years ago off the coast of East London has stirred up claims of an Apartheid-era cover-up and a call to have the site protected.

Case of troubled team member at Sanae IV is tip of an iceberg of problems dogging South Africa’s research programme, stakeholders say

Overwintering team will undergo new psychometric tests

Rabies-infected seal carcasses are washing up along the Cape coastline, prompting a government instruction for marine researchers and the public to treat them as "biohazards" and stay away.