World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

In rural South Africa, rangeland restoration is community-based and collaborative

The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...
wallpaper

Meet Rural Futurisms, 'agents for catalytic change' in South Africa's landscape design field

Lesego Bantsheng and her practice, Rural Futurisms NPC, hope to shake up the notion of landscape – and that, they do. Founded in 2023 and working in Southern Africa, in particular rural northern South ...
HeraldNet

South Africa: Mandela family gathers at rural home

JOHANNESBURG — Members of Nelson Mandela’s family and tribal elders gathered Tuesday at the former president’s rural hometown in eastern South Africa, as concern grew for the 94-year-old leader who ...
The Conversation

South Africa’s modern rondavels: family homes may be changing, but traditions remain

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...
Mail & Guardian

Ecosystem of injustice: The hidden system that keeps rural South Africa unequal

South Africa’s rural crisis did not begin yesterday. It is the product of a vast, interconnected system designed to protect corporate profits, maintain elite land ownership and keep farmworkers, ...