South Africa could turn to Russia or Iran to expand its civilian nuclear power capacity, a senior government minister said, a stance analysts say could deepen a rift with the United States and further delay the renewal of a strategic energy pact.

Invasive plants such as port jackson, black wattle and gum trees threaten the country’s water security by using up too much water. They also fuel fires by adding biomass into the ecosystem, particularly those ecosystems where trees would not naturally grow.

Like many other African Americans, I can only trace my family lineage back to one or maybe two generations. There is not a great deal of written information to search for when you were enslaved. The names were changed once they came off the slave ships,

Universities in Senegal and South Africa are now teaching the skills of setting up nature-inspired projects to deal with some of the problems of climate change.

South Africa's Eskom will cut 3,000 megawatts of power in controlled outages, known locally as loadshedding, from 5:30 p.m. (1530 GMT) on Saturday until further notice after a "temporary setback", the power utility said.

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