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Taxi operators in South Africa's Western Cape are refusing to raise fares even as fuel prices soar by up to R9 per liter. The decision puts commuters first during a time when cost of living pressures continue to squeeze working families.
After vanishing for 170 years, Cape leopards are returning to South Africa's Western Cape mountains, giving conservationists renewed hope. With fewer than 1,000 left in the wild, every sighting matters for this vulnerable species.
South Africa's Western Cape government is deploying 20,000 vaccines to combat a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, protecting both livestock and the farmers who depend on them. Swift action includes mobile vaccination teams, movement permits, and temporary auction halts to stop the spread.
Community health workers now walk directly into fields to care for thousands of remote farm workers in South Africa's Western Cape. What once required missing a day's work and traveling 40 kilometers now happens right where people are harvesting.
A team of fossil hunters stumbled upon more than two dozen dinosaur tracks on South Africa's Western Cape coast, making them the youngest dinosaur footprints ever discovered in southern Africa. The 132-million-year-old prints fill a massive gap in the region's prehistoric record.