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Emergency teams scramble to assist residents as extreme weather lashes parts of province
Savage winter storms have caused devastation in the Eastern Cape but to the west, no-one died.
Many think we are simply experiencing “ bad weather” but recent mid-latitude cyclones or “cut-off low” storms are impacted by climate pollution.
The number of migrating whales struck by ships now sailing across the eastern horizon in vastly increased numbers will never be known because the carcasses sink to the ocean floor without a trace.
Any fishing line that anglers lose in the ocean “always has secondary casualties”.
There was a sense at the launch of the 10th Umtiza Arts Festival that something long dormant had stirred awake again.
Eastern Cape nature reserves are under mounting pressure from chronic underfunding, failing infrastructure and deteriorating tourism facilities, raising fears for the future of conservation in the province.
Eastern Cape tourism operators are calling on the government to open up the 17 failing Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism-run parks to private sector operators.
Nature reserves blighted by crumbling infrastructure and shortages of funding, staff and equipment
An independent case study in 2025 of 53 of SA's provincial reserves in 2025 most were in poor condition.
