One of the rarest animals in Africa, found exclusively in a couple of estuaries on the Eastern Cape’s Sunshine Coast, is being threatened by a growing trend of illegal land clearing in river catchments.
A helicopter will be dispatched on Thursday afternoon to try for a sighting of the Adelaide hippo which is thought to be lying low in the Koonap River reeds.
One of SA’s largest timber producers will launch a probe into its own operations following allegations that their chemicals may have contributed to the deaths of more than 10 people in the Tsitsikamma region since 2019.
Once hives of employment in the former Transkei and Ciskei, many of the Eastern Cape Development Corporation’s industrial units are in ruins, with vandals having stripped away anything of value and making the Eastern Cape government’s promise of revitalising them just a pipe dream.