seafood

Paternoster, one of the oldest fishing villages on the West Coast of the Western Cape province, serenely sits a 20 diners a night Restaurant, called Wolfgat.  Unknown...

South African food celebrates the country's rich cultural heritage, as well as taking advantage of the natural bounty of seafood, meat, game and plants. All this food has got to be washed down with something, and our wine has been earning rave reviews internationally for 300 years.

South Africans have long had a love affair with cooking over flames. A new restaurant in Johannesburg, Marble, captures that essence by cooking most...

For the first time since the late 1990s, Russia has granted 12 South African companies rights to start exporting canned and frozen fish to the Eurasian country.

For the first time since the late 1990s, Russia has granted 12 South African companies rights to start exporting canned and frozen fish to the Eurasian country.

Out of Africa always something new, or in this case something very old. An ancient skeleton unearthed on the Cape's West Coast has provided a new DNA variant. Researchers have found he belonged to the earliest group of humans to diverge from "Mitochondrial Eve", our common ancestor.

Seafood is popular on many menus, but over-fishing is costing the oceans dearly. Aquaculture is one answer, with fish farmed for consumption in protected environments. In South Africa, the industry is in its infancy, but companies are farming fish that are green-listed on the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative.

South African company Oceanfresh, which already supplies its wild caught hake to Walmart, will now be supplying a second US retailer, Costco, following a deal struck with parent company Lonrho.

A trip to the top of Table Mountain was a highlight for a group of journalists from the Gulf states, visiting South Africa on a fact-finding mission. It was, in their words, “awesome”.

A trip to the top of Table Mountain was a highlight for a group of journalists from the Gulf states, visiting South Africa on a fact-finding mission. It was, in their words, “awesome”.
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