Sep 21 Activists celebrate World Rhino Day across the globe By News Desk Conservationists across the globe are marking World Rhino Day on Monday, a day focused on five species of rhino, including black, white and Sumatran rhinos. Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch News Wrap: UN peacekeepers released by Syrian rebels By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, 45 UN peacekeepers held captive for two weeks were released by al-Nusra Front, Syrian rebels who are linked to al-Qaida. Also, a South African judge ruled that Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius cannot be convicted… Continue watching
Sep 11 Pistorius can’t be convicted of murder, judge says in South African trial By News Desk The judge in the trial of double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius said Thursday that he couldn’t receive a murder conviction in the shooting death of his girlfriend. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90 at her home in Johannesburg. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist used her pen to write damning indictments of South Africa's racial segregation. We look back at Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s 1987… Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 14 Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90 By Margaret Myers Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading
May 18 Kruger Park reports first case of elephant poaching in 10 years By News Desk Officials at South Africa's Kruger National Park have reported the first case of elephant poaching in the park in over a decade. The male elephant's corpse, stripped of its tusks, was found near the border with Mozambique. Continue reading
May 18 Watch Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino? By PBS News Hour Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic… Continue watching
May 17 International ad campaigns aim to reduce rhino horn demand By Connie Kargbo While park rangers are fighting the battle with poachers on the ground in South Africa, over the past few years ad campaigns by conservation groups have also been hitting airwaves and websites in consumer countries to discourage the consumption of… Continue reading
May 07 Adventurers arrive in the U.S. after 100-day journey across the Atlantic By Lorna Baldwin A South African duo have become the first people to row from Africa to the U.S. across the Atlantic Ocean, all without a support team. Riaan Manser, a professional adventurer, and his partner Vasti Geldenhuys arrived in Miami, Florida, around… Continue reading