Every summer the fruit leaves the valleys of the Western Cape and begins its long journey north. Apples, pears, grapes and stone fruit move by truck and train toward the Port of Cape Town, where they must board ships quickly if they are to reach European and other markets...

Along the West Coast this August, the beaches told a quiet, unsettling story. In places from Saldanha Bay down toward Gansbaai, and later as far as the Milnerton shoreline, sardines washed ashore in numbers that stopped people in their tracks. Dead fish drifted on the surface several nautical miles...

There is a quiet problem sitting in the future of South African wind energy, one that most people driving past the turbines near Darling or Saldanha do not yet see. Those long white blades that spin so cleanly against the West Coast sky will one day stop turning. When...

There is a stretch of coastline on the Eastern Cape where the Indian Ocean meets the land with a particular kind of force. The Wild Coast does not invite easy compromise. Its cliffs, its beaches, and the communities who have lived beside it for generations have long carried a...

There’s a particular heaviness that settles over the Western Cape when the trucks start lining up outside Cape Town harbour again. You can feel it in the citrus season, when the wind picks up and the containers sit waiting, and you can feel it further up the coast when...