Mine security guards and farmers are alleged to have opened fire on Kuboes, Sanddrift, Eksteenfontein and Lekkersing community members during a protest earlier this week after the exclusion of the ...

The 160,000 ha Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape of dramatic mountainous desert in north-western South Africa constitutes a cultural landscape communally owned and managed. This site ...

Johannesburg - A Richtersveld community will ask the Constitutional Court on Friday to uphold a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment that restored the ownership of diamond-rich land to them. The land and ...

A major privatisation and black economic empowerment deal has suffered a blow as a result of this week’s Constitutional Court ruling that the Richtersveld community has a legitimate claim to ...

The Democratic Alliance is waiting with baited breath to see whether the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture will step up ...

State diamond-mining company Alexkor will have to mothball some of its activities if the Richtersveld land claim is not settled, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Thursday. Delivering his ...

Bloemfontein - Government conceded on Tuesday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein that the Richtersveld community on the West Coast retained ownership of their land after British annexation ...

'[I] essentially was able to see how much the place is turning to dune, completely not the normal state for that space,' says Leonie Joubert, a science journalist. Saskia Falken interviews Leonie ...

The Richtersveld in the Northern Cape has been awarded world heritage status, becoming the eighth such site in the country, Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.