Under the harsh illogic of apartheid, South Africa's 11 million blacks are restricted chiefly to unskilled labor, but at least some of them have been permitted to seek out their own humble ...

A bush-tree of stubborn thorns, of patience incarnate with a specific local multi-African clear-cut Creolized Dutch name. It grows in dry and thorny places, places where time does not run but ...

It all started when big-headed ants — likely coming from on an island in the Indian Ocean — pervaded East African environments with whistling-thorn trees, which have a special, symbiotic relationship ...

Photo: Ofentse Moduka On 30 August, Miss Earth South Africa finalists L’Oreal Magro and Michaela Kupsamy planted 10 trees at Thorn Tree Academy in honour of National Arbour Week.

The whistling-thorn tree is a common sight on the plains of the east African savannah. A type of acacia, it gets its name from the noise the wind makes as it blows across its distinctive, bulbous ...

PENANG: At a durian farm in Sungai Baong on mainland Penang stands a towering 40-year-old tree that bears the much sought-after Black Thorn. The fruits have just been crowned the “King of Kings ...