Articles for Ashraf Hendricks

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Kakamas residents live on the edge of a water emergency

The town’s only water treatment plant is near collapse

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News | 20 December 2024

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Pup-up shop: new mobile clinics for dogs and cats

TEARS is rolling out vehicles that will provide both community education and veterinary services

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Brief | 12 December 2024

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Upington farmers are desperate for water

They are receiving little help from the municipality

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News | 10 December 2024

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In photos: wagging tails and smiles greet Animal Welfare Society volunteers

Volunteers visit a different town in the Kalahari and rural Northern Cape each Saturday to offer much-needed services to pets

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Photo Essay | 28 November 2024

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Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty

Sanddrift residents struggle to get medication, ambulances, and jobs

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News | 25 November 2024

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How people in Namaqualand are keeping the Nama language alive

A radio station and a school teaching Nama hope to stop the language from going extinct

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Photo Essay | 12 November 2024

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Blooming good: How a desert garden is saving endangered plants

The Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden is a lifeline for plants species endemic to the region

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News | 4 November 2024

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Donkey carts stand idle as tourism dies in Cederberg village

Heuningvlei was devastated by flooding for two consecutive years but the residents are determined to keep their town alive

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News | 21 October 2024

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Wupperthal: the town where you can sleep outside on your stoep

But jobs are scarce in this small Cederberg mission town

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Photo Essay | 18 October 2024

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Rooigevaar in Saldanha: residents say red dust from Transnet’s ore terminal is staining their homes and even their dogs

But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits

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News | 4 October 2024

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Thousands of birds rescued by West Coast owl orphanage

The birds of prey rehabilitation centre in Velddrif has gone from strength to strength but challenges remain

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News | 30 September 2024

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West Coast fishers say fishing policy is crippling them

Saldanha and Langebaan fishers say they barely make a livelihood from their quotas

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News | 18 September 2024

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Small West Coast town is the world capital of this delicacy

In photos: Velddrif’s bokkom industry

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Photo Essay | 9 September 2024

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Tensions mount as Cape Town farmers face relocation

The area that the government wants to move them to is already occupied

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News | 30 August 2024

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Farm workers march in rain and wind to call for ban on pesticides

They want an end to exports of harmful pesticides from Germany

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Brief | 27 August 2024

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Cape Town electricity protest brings traffic to a halt

“We are eating less food because we have to pay more for electricity”

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News | 23 August 2024