Don Pinnock
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Baboons on your radar: What do you really know? (opens the original)
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A deep-dive series examines Cape Townâs escalating baboon conflict from the perspectives of authorities, scientists, residents, conservationists and the baboons themselves. On the Cape Peninsula, the issue of free-ranging baboons invading parts of thecity precincts as the city pushes up into their home range has escalated intoa war zone. Claims of home invasions, baboons being shot and dogs set onthem. Itâs been getting nastier and nastier.A hundred years ago they were legally classed as ver
B&W Part six: Some thoughts about the future of wheat and wine farming (opens the original)
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Wine increasingly needs weddings, restaurants and wealthy owners. Wheat needs scale, outside income and good rain. What happens when the crops can no longer pay for the landscape? This is the sixth in a six-part series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. So, what have we discovered in this series? Seen from the road, the Capeâs bread and wine country looks reassuringly settled. Wheat rolls over the Swartland, vines climb the mountain slopes and white-gabled estates p
Bread & Wine: The chemical trail through wheat and grapes (Part Five) (opens the original)
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Thereâs a price to pay for our love of bread and wine in the chemicals commonly used to grow wheat and grapes. Most of that bill is paid in farm soils, neighbouring veld and rivers downstream. But traces can also travel beyond the farm fence. This is the fifth in a six-part series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. Plant ecologist Eugene Moll describes the Western Cape as a land capable of forgetting itself. Plough renosterveld for long enough, he says, and its seed bank expir
The silenced artists of Agter Pakhuis (opens the original)
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Hidden among the cliffs of the northern Cederberg is an ancient gallery without doors or labels. Its sandstone walls hold thousands of enigmatic paintings, traces of the |Xam and other early inhabitants whose vanished worlds still endure in ochre and stone. In a part of the northern Cederberg known as the Agter Pakhuis, a remote cottage stands at the foot of black-and-gold sandstone cliffs. A stream runs nearby and supplies its water. The cottage is called Perdehoek, for no reason I could discov
B&W Part four: When the wheat stops paying (opens the original)
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On Grasrug, held by one family for 140 years, Micheil Smuts explains why conventional wheat now requires less ploughing, more spraying and an annual gamble that many farmers can no longer afford. This is the fourth in a six-part series. Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Micheil Smuts farms wheat with less ploughing than his father did, and more spraying. That sounds like a contradiction. On Grasrug, the Swartland farm thatâs been in his family for 140 years, the old method was to turn t
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