A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice

There is growing evidence that termites have a substantial but still poorly understood role in the carbon cycle

Even in hardship Nama blooms.

This is an extract from a new book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

Khoi Revivalists denounce racist groups using its name and want the apartheid category eliminated

Where else would we go? ask Nama descendants who fret that communal land will be taken. Some still follow traditional ways, writes Carl Collison

Some tourist sites like Namaqualand are weather-dependent; increasing the number of tourists is vital