A South African man’s quest to carry a life-size cross on foot from Cape Town to Israel has left many questioning his sanity.

Biosecurity officials have declared the eradication of karroo thorn after the trees were detected and destroyed at properties on the Darling Downs in the state's south. The African native weed was ...

Barnard was the son of a rather poor Afrikaner preacher and his wife, and grew up in Beaufort West, a town on South Africa's semi-arid Great Karroo plateau. He studied medicine at the University ...