New research has found that the eastern and south-eastern coasts of Africa have currents that put them among the world's top potential locations for ocean energy production. Researchers Mahsan ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover that South Africa is rising out of the ocean. New measurements reveal that the country is rising by as much as two millimetres per year in some places ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found at the Knysna site—are thought to be replaceable components in composite ...

The Atlantic Ocean off the southern-most tip of Africa is so cold it feels like your skin is burning. But still Craig Foster slips into the frigid water every day, without a wetsuit or scuba gear ...

Giraffes at sundown/Marataba . Katie K Bell. A single trip to South Africa is a journey you can take a thousand times more; it stays in your soul, and it’s one every family should try to make.

An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public.

Mads Christian Barbesgaard is chairman of political affairs at Africa Contact in Denmark (www.afrika.dk) a solidarity organisation that supports social movements in their struggle for social, economic ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

I was born in 1993, just as apartheid was ending in South Africa.My father is an avid surfer who introduced me to the sport at a young age, and the freedom he felt in the ocean had a big impact on me.