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SANParks: Lion’s Head weekend fire will delay hiking trail’s reopening

The grand reopening of Lion’s Head’s popular hiking trail frequented by selfie-seekers has been postponed following the wildfire which ravaged the peak on Sunday….

#JoburgFire: Twitter accounts to follow for breaking news

A fire currently tearing through a Johannesburg CBD building is one of the biggest news stories on Twitter today. While South Africans have the…

Cape Town smoke-filled skies caused by Sir Lowry’s Pass fire

Update, 5.17pm: Sir Lowry’s Pass has been reopened to traffic closed once again. Cape Town – N2 Route: #SirLowrysPass (Update): ROAD CLOSED again over…

Social accounts to follow during Cape Town’s wildfire season [Digital All Stars]

Cape Town’s fire season is off to an early start this year. On Wednesday 11 October, a blaze broke out on the 12 Apostles…

Cape Town firefighters: don’t fly drones around the #12ApostlesFire

Volunteer Wildfire Services, better known as VWS, has asked Cape Town residents and visitors to guard against flying drones near the 12 Apostles fire….

Updating: #12ApostlesFire trends in Cape Town as mountain slopes burn

Update, 13 Oct, 9.30am: The fire between Camps Bay and Llandudno on Cape Town’s 12 Apostles mountain range is still burning, this according to…

Update: London suffers another disaster as #GrenfellTower burns

Update, 12.40pm SAST: London’s Metropolitan Police has confirmed that at least six people have died in the blaze that swept through North Kensington’s Grenfell…

GoFundMe campaign for Knysna Fire relief smashes crowdfunding goal

A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign created to help the victims of the Knysna fires has raised three-times its goal amount in a single day. The…

Knysna Fire: another Western Cape disaster trends on social media

Knysna, a town situated on the Garden Route approximately 420km east of Cape Town, is battling a huge blaze sweeping across dense indigenous forest….

Update: Braamfontein’s BraamPark office block burnt to a crisp

Update, 3.04pm SAST: The Braamfontein office block blaze is now largely “under control”, authorities note. The latest images from the BraamPark site also suggests…

Imizamo Yethu: Uber will ferry your donations to fire victims

The Hout Bay and Imizamo Yethu fires have seen numerous organisations and citizens step up to deliver goods and services. Now,Uber has joined the…

Hout Bay fires: ravaged Imizamo Yethu photographed on Instagram, Twitter

It seems that Cape Town has been hot, dry, and on fire for much of the summer. The latest blaze however has inconvenienced more…

Update: Well Cape Town, now Signal Hill’s on fire

Update: the fire on Signal Hill has now been contained. It’s just been an awful week for nature conservationists, fire fighters and anyone who…

Cape Town’s latest veld fire blankets social media in smoke

Just when Cape Town thought it saw the last of the fire season last week, Mother Nature has returned with more red hot anger….

Campfire pot for USB charging

A Japanese company has come up with a new way to charge your mobile phone after a natural disaster or in the great outdoors…

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

Google updates Chrome OS with better navigation and audio control

YouTube to stop monetisation of ‘unfair’ manual copyright claims

Five SA fintechs that service the growing market of SME lending

AlphaCode awards R16m in grants, support services to eight black-owned SA fintechs

Seedstars calls on startups to apply to Tanzania accelerator and receive $25k each

Some older Nokia smartphones to receive an extra year of updates

The foldable Huawei Mate X is now delayed until November

Open-world Need for Speed Heat is launching in November

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals