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Kite Surfers Make The Most Of The Severe Wind In Cape Town

Getty Images 32 days ago

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - OCTOBER 13: Kite surfers sail past a cargo ship that ran aground near Bloubergstrand, after stormy conditions this September on October 13, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The 77-metre Panamanian-registered coal bulk carrier, Seali-One, was driven ...

South African Travel

Getty Images 32 days ago

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - OCTOBER 13: Kite surfers sail past a cargo ship that ran aground near Bloubergstrand, after stormy conditions this September, on October 13, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The 77-metre Panamanian-registered coal bulk carrier, Seali-One, was driven ...

South Africa Zuma

AP News 33 days ago

A woman and her child walk between shacks, past a communal toilet in Khayelitsha township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. South African President Jacob Zuma says mayors need to clean up corruption and stop political ...

Opera "Porgy and Bess" gets 1960s Soweto setting

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 39 days ago

LONDON (Reuters) - The role of Porgy, the crippled beggar in "Porgy and Bess," has always been hard to pull off as he changes from grump to lover, but a Cape Town Opera version opening in Britain this month sets him a ...

Boulders Beach Penguins Enter The Molting Season

Getty Images 39 days ago

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - OCTOBER 13: An African Rockhopper penguin sits on a rock after dark on the shoreline at 'The Boulders' in Table Mountain National Park on October 13, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The penguins at Boulders are ...

Oceans seen as new front to fight climate change

Reuters Environmental Online Report 39 days ago

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Preventing the destruction of marine life, from plankton to seagrasses and mangrove forests, could help offset between 3 to 7 percent of current fossil fuel emissions, a U.N. environment report said on Wednesday. The "Blue Carbon" report found ...

Long way to get there: new "Porgy" set in Soweto

Reuters Life! Online Report 39 days ago

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The role of Porgy, the crippled beggar in "Porgy and Bess," has always been hard to pull off as he changes from grump to lover, but a Cape Town Opera version opening in Britain this month sets him ...

Freshwater species suffer most as extinctions rise

Reuters Environmental Online Report 42 days ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Creatures and plants living in rivers and lakes are the most threatened on Earth because their ecosystems are collapsing, scientists said on Sunday. They urged the creation of a new partnership between governments and scientists to help stem extinctions ...

In toothless Cape Town, fashion is better than your bite

AFP Global Edition 46 days ago

The laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed smile, the four upper front teeth missing, a common sight among mixed-race Capetonians that ...

Better care 'could save 600,000 babies a year'

AFP Global Edition 47 days ago

Improved health care for women giving birth in poor countries could save about 600,000 of the two million babies who die every year, according to a study released on Tuesday. While most women in developed nations deliver their babies with the help ...

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