The succulent and Nama-karoo form part of the arid south-western zone of Africa, a vast region of rugged landscapes and low treeless vegetation. Studies of this unique biome have yielded fascinating ...

In the same year, Namibia's Nama people also staged an uprising. German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass ...

Sometime back in 2003, I was standing toe-to-toe with a Sutherland sheep farmer after his deeply rutted middelmannetjie road had nearly ripped the guts out of my wife Julienne’s little low-slung ...