It was World Ranger Day 2026 and for the first time South Africa hosted the national commemoration in the arid Augrabies region
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I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care...
Restoring black participation in commercial agriculture is not simply about producing bigger harvests
A major boost came through a R1.7 million grant from the National Development Agency (NDA)
It can also no longer be acceptable that South Africa, with all its internal troubles, should be the sanctuary of all African citizens fleeing the impact of collapsed economies
For families living along the park’s boundary, elephants can represent danger, loss and a bill they cannot afford to pay.
Sometimes it is easier to remember a single moment of protest – a day, an action, a single dead soul – than it is to remember the ways in which that protest continued, changed, mutated, and developed into something new
The forced removal of communities resulted in high levels of poverty among the people who were later dumped to resettle along the park's western and southern borders
The individual struggle of black start up farmers is mirrored by a systemic shift in how development capital is managed
Our leaders are operating in a country shaped by inequality, institutional fragility, and complex social realities