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04 December 2025 Daily Maverick

SA’s award-winning thicket project on track to create 100,000 jobs and revive 800,000 hectares

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Card image 01 December 2025 The Conversation

Africa’s longest-running grassland research project offers up a wealth of knowledge

Decades of experimentation revealed slow ecological processes and long-term interactions that have international scientific value.

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02 December 2025 Daily Maverick

Traditional healers need hunters to make safe, sustainable muti

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Card image 28 December 2025 GroundUp

Part Two: Dodgy Nguni cattle deals uncovered at Fort Hare

A forensic investigation of a research farm found cattle sold for below market prices

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Card image 27 November 2025 GroundUp

Fort Hare’s cattle projects were supposed to help Eastern Cape farmers. Instead they are a lesson in bad governance

Forensic reports uncover arithmetical errors, unaccounted-for assets and absent oversight, probably resulting in the loss of tens of millions of rands for the university

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Card image 19 November 2025 GroundUp

How a group of landowners brought the Agulhas Plain back to life

The Nuwejaars Wetlands Special Management Area was established in 2008

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Card image 10 November 2025 GroundUp

In photos: How fishers live on the Olifants River

The Ebenhaeser community hope to be at the centre of South African mullet fishing

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Card image 07 November 2025 GroundUp

Ecological disaster in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley

The collapse of a precious palmiet peatland exposes failures and tensions in the management of our water resources

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11 July 2025 Farmer’s Weekly

Land Reform budget backs agri growth and rural development

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Card image 27 June 2025 EWN

R43m dairy farm collapse leaves Mantusini community struggling

As the country commemorates 70-years of the Freedom Charter, Eyewitness News travelled to Port St Johns to see what has been described as a failed land reform project.

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