The Western Cape is a region blessed with an incredible variety of landscapes, from rugged coastlines to towering mountains and lush forests. Here are five national parks to visit this National ...

No one is sure of the exact date, but it was around 1850 that farmer Pieter Albertyn shot the last hippo of the southern Cape, near the bottom of Africa. In 2009 his great-grandson Dirk Human released ...

A marine biologist from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is advocating for Cape Agulhas to be declared a Marine Protected Area (MPA) because research has shown that the vicinity contains ...

The move has secured 90% of the Soetendalsvlei wetland and added a further 2,345 hectares to the park which lies about 200km from Cape Town in the Western Cape ...

Cape Town - When SANparks chief executive David Mabunda jokingly suggested to his staff that one way to attract visitors to the Agulhas National Park was to build the longest boardwalk on Earth ...

South African National Parks (SANParks) has opened a kilometre-long boardwalk linking the Cape Agulhas lighthouse with the southernmost tip of Africa - the point in the Western Cape where the ...

South African National Parks (SanParks) has introduced a 40-seater bus to improve community access to Agulhas National Park and environmental education initiatives.Source: SanParks - Cape Aghulas ...

The Lighthouse Precinct Project in the Agulhas National Park in the Western Cape is worth a R54.9 million investment by the Department of Tourism into this area to ensure that this site remains ...

Today, the Minister of Tourism, Derek Hanekom, unveiled the Iconic Map of Africa Monument in the Agulhas National Park in the Southern Overberg region of the Western Cape.

The expansion includes the Vhembe-Dongola National Park in Limpopo, which acquired more than 1 725ha of land, the Western Cape’s Agulhas National Park with 3 636ha, ...

The competition-winning scheme has been branded ‘of international cultural and geographical significance’ and will provide a meeting point for tourists visiting the continent’s most southerly point.