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Where to eat iKota and catch the best DJs in Johannesburg

November 4, 2024149 Views

An insider view on how to explore the “Jozi” in South African like a local As the Southern Africa bureau chief for Reuters, I’ve led the coverage of all kinds of news in the region, from political twists and turns in South Africa to a debt crisis in Zambia, a growing insurgency in Mozambique and oil and gas finds in Namibia. Reuters hired me in 2010 to cover commodities and mining - an exciting beat, given Southern Africa’s role as a major exporter of minerals. Later I became an economics correspondent before taking on my current role. Johannesburg - or “Jozi,” as South Africa’s economic hub is known to its residents - has a history rooted in the late 19th century Gold Rush. The inner city is now mostly rundown, with dilapidated buildings marking the skyline after a majority of b...

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Johannesburg stunned by once-in-a-decade snowfall

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July 10, 2023695 Views

Residents of South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg were stunned by the first snowfall in over a decade on Monday, with some children seeing snow for the first time. While parts of South Africa regularly receive snowfall over the southern hemisphere winter months around June to August, Johannesburg last saw snow in August 2012. Children play in the snow at Laerskool Orion, a school located in Brackenhurst, a suburb south of Johannesburg in South Africa, July 10, 2023. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko After getting her picture taken on Nelson Mandela Square in the financial district, Jennifer Banda told Reuters that she was pregnant the last time it snowed. "Eleven years down the line, it's exciting that we have snow," she said. South of the city in Brackenhurst, a Reuters photograp...

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Renowned artist confronts destruction of African wildlife in latest art show

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

June 10, 2023720 Views

Often depicted as an integral feature of the continent, African wildlife, from iconic big beasts to its vast array of species, continues to attract millions of foreign travelers every year. But a new art exhibition in the heart of Johannesburg is questioning the relationship between humans and animals on the continent, which spans centuries and is often marked by the destruction and exploitation of African wildlife for commercial gain and recreational purposes. Victor, an installation by artist and photographer Roger Ballen is displayed at Inside Out Centre for the Arts in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) From the killing of elephants in the 18th century to feed the ivory trade to decimating the rhino population through hunting, artist...

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India to get 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month

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January 27, 20231036 Views

India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as part of an ambitious plan to reintroduce the cats in the country after 70 years. India and South Africa have finally signed an MoU to transport a dozen cheetahs from this African country next month and reintroduce them in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. FILE PHOTO: A cheetah moves around inside a quarantine section at a reserve near Bella Bella, South Africa, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. South African wildlife officials plan to send more cheetahs to India. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) India plans to transport an additional 12 annually for the next eight to 10 years as part of an agreement signed by the two African countries, India’s Ministry of Environm...

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Army of pest-munching ducks keep South African vineyard blooming

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January 16, 2023937 Views

Flocks of white, black and brown ducks hunt for snails and bugs as they patrol the grapevines at a vineyard in South Africa's winemaking town of Stellenbosch, helping the owners steer clear of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. Around 500 Indian runner ducks work as a natural pest control at the Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate, but also entertain wine-quaffing tourists. A flock of Indian Runner ducks, which assist as natural pest-control, in place of pesticides, by eating all the snails and bugs, walk amidst the grape vines during their daily patrol around the Vergenoegd Wine Estate, in Stellenbosch, in Cape Town, South Africa, January 12, 2023. REUTERS/Esa Alexander "We call them the soldiers of the vineyards," the managing director of the estate, Corius Visser, told Reuters. D...

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Pumpkin and rooibos ice cream on menu as Cape Town café champions African flavours

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 30, 2022937 Views

When Tapiwa Guzha first started making ice creams 12 years ago, he never imagined he would one day be whisking pumpkin puree and milk together to make an African flavoured ice cream at a cafe in Cape Town. Hailing from Zimbabwe, 36-year-old Guzha says he wants to educate locals and visitors alike on African flavoured experiences and correct a narrative that things made in Africa are second rate or are not as tasty. A customer tastes ice cream before she buys some at the Tapi Tapi ice cream shop in Observatory, in Cape Town, South Africa, December 20, 2022. REUTERS/Esa Alexander "At some point it became an aspirational thing to say I don't eat African food ... so I started addressing ... that problem," he said at his Tapi Tapi shop. Located in the bohemian suburb of Observatory...

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Using art and song to help solve plastic waste crisis

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 6, 2022782 Views

A pioneering scheme using street art, theatre and song aims to reduce open dumping and burning of waste as well as increase plastic recycling in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Uncontrolled plastic waste disposal is becoming an increasingly serious problem there; threatening the environment and human health. Waste is often burned, contributing to climate change and poor air quality. This creative campaign has been co-created by University of Portsmouth experts, local stakeholders including artists, musicians and waste collectors to increase recycling in rural areas. The methods being used are aimed at teaching people that waste has value, and that dumping and burning waste impacts heavily on human health. The University has partnered with WasteAid and provincial environmental...

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Suspended sculpture transforms Cape Town museum’s atrium

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September 17, 2022531 Views

Moody, brooding and floating, Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa’s “The Five Continents of All Our Desires” is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town. Malagasy’s sculptures in black silk paper are suspended in the museum’s multi-story central atrium. The constructions form a massive, slowly moving mobile that suggests geographical archipelagos and play off the building’s massive concrete curving walls. An installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa "The Five Continents of All Our Desires," is seen in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) The structure originally served as grain silos at Cape Town’s port, and the museum was c...

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Avian flu outbreak detected among Cape Town’s penguin colony at Boulders

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

September 16, 2022779 Views

South African environmental authorities have confirmed four new infections and another seven suspected cases in a new outbreak of avian flu at Cape Town's Boulders penguin colony, a popular tourist attraction and an important breeding site, officials said on Friday. City and provincial officials said the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza was similar to that detected among a range of wild seabirds, including Cape cormorants and common terns, since May last year after a similar outbreak in 2018 killed hundreds of endangered penguins and other birds. African penguins, also known as jackass penguins, are the only species that breed on the continent but their numbers have been falling sharply over the years due to a loss of habitat and declining fish stocks. FILE PHOTO: Enda...

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Poachers kill more rhinos in South Africa to meet Asian demand

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

August 2, 2022817 Views

South Africa has seen an increase in the number of rhinos illegally killed for their horns in the first half of 2022, as poachers shifted to hunting in private parks, the country's environment ministry said on Monday. Ten more rhinos were poached countrywide than in the first half of last year, taking the total to 259. Poaching in South Africa had already risen last year after a fall in 2020 linked to COVID-19 restrictions. South Africa accounts for about half of the total endangered black rhino population on the African continent and is also home to the world's largest population of white rhinos, whose status is "near-threatened" rather than endangered. Conservation efforts and vigilance have increased in the world-famous Kruger National Park, leading poachers to shift to hu...