Macro photos of South African seeds by photographer Dillon Marsh based in Cape Town.

During a regular visit, Sophie Mangena was shocked to find that her mother with dementia had been transferred from the psychiatric facility without so much as a phone call to the family, and the nurse on duty didn’t know exactly where she was.

South Africa's former president faces 16 corruption charges linked to a 1999 arms deal.

White South African farmers “deserve special attention” from Australia due to the “horrific circumstances” of land seizures and violence, Peter Dutton has said. The home affairs minister told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday his department was examining a range of methods to fast-track their path to Australia on humanitarian or other visa programs.

Solutions range from drinking ocean water to trucking in an iceberg.

White South African farmers will be removed from their land after a landslide vote in parliament. The country's constitution is now likely to be amended to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation, following a motion brought by radical Marxist opposition leader Julius Malema. It passed by 241 votes for to 83 against after a vote on Tuesday, and the policy was a key factor in new president Cyril Ramaphosa's platform after he took over from Jacob Zuma in February.

Sand blows across a normally submerged area at Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa. The dam, which supplies most of Cape Town's potable water, is currently dangerously low as the city faces 'Day Zero', the point at which taps will be shut down across the city.

South Africa has declared the drought which has seen Cape Town hurtling towards "Day Zero" a national disaster. The government made the announcement after reassessing the "magnitude and severity" of the three-year drought. It has badly affected three of the country's nine provinces.

A big cat poacher has been killed and eaten by the pride of lions he was hunting at a private game reserve in South Africa. The hunter was heard screaming for help as he was attacked at the Ingwelala Private Nature Reserve in Hoedspruit outside Phalaborwa. But the lions quickly killed their victim and devoured most of his body before being chased off, leaving his head untouched.

The lions in the Kruger National Park in South Africa left the head and only a few remains.

Residents have been rationing their water use because of a very real risk the taps will run dry.

Cape Town is in the middle of an unprecedented drought but critics say authorities failed to adapt to growth. How did one of the wealthiest cities in Africa find itself in this position?

A rescue operation is underway to release 955 workers from a gold mine in South Africa after a power cut left them trapped. A spokesman for the mine's operating company said on Friday morning that power had been restored to a lift to release them. The miners have been trapped underground since Wednesday night. South Africa is a leading gold producer, but safety in the industry is often questioned.

Sibanye-Stillwater mining company said miners stuck up to 1000m below ground after outage caused by a storm

A storm knocked electricity out, preventing lifts from bringing nightshift workers to the surface.

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As Cape Town braces for the day when it will run out of water, a campaign to donate water to its residents has become a social media phenomenon.

In Cape Town, South Africa, they're calling it "Day Zero" -- the day when the taps run dry. City officials had recently said that day would come on April 22. This week, they moved up the date to April 12. Cape Town is South Africa's second-largest city and a top international tourist draw. Now, residents play a new and delicate game of water math each day.

Residents must limit their showers to one-and-a-half minutes.

Cape Town is in the grips of a severe drought which could force authorities to turn the city's taps off.