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Kassala mountains, eastern Sudan. Image: Sandy Inglis
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R27 Northern Cape. Image: Charmaine du Plessis
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Fishermen will fish at new moon tonight. Strand beach. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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Recent trip to Botswana, this one is taken close to the Chobe river. Image: Hein van de Laarschot
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After the fire-Table mountain. Image: Ulf Hitzeroth
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Rainy Saturday – Pelham, KZN. Image: Vusi Shabalala
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Your swing is waiting for you along the Zambezi at the new Mpala Jena in Vic Falls. Image: Jill Wagner, Great Plains Conservation.
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Two Squirrels studying their domain from a dizzying height. Image: Peter Brett
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The end of autumn in a small French village. Image: Françoise Destrieux Armour
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A star is born. Image: Derek Whalley
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Sunrise in the City of Tshwane, in the East. Image: Goodnews Cadogan
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Salem, East Cape sunset. Image: Jack McLeod
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The rainstorm sunset. Image: Stef Riccardi
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Sunset Road. Image: Rosemund Handler
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New York Skyline taken from the Ellis Island Ferry. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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Cape Sugar Bird. Image: Quix Quicke
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A leopard with his meal, a baby impala. Taken on the Mewlatti concession on Wednesday morning at 5:30am, and night before at 9:30pm. Image: Thaakier Cook.
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Southern Boubou slaughtering a painted Reed Frog, Noordhoek. Image: Catherina P.
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Ihlotzi lodge. Image: Maura Meagher
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City draped in dawn-hour mist. Oxford Street, Rosebank pre 6am. Image: La Bartie
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Rowling clouds covering Pretoria. Image: Marle Scott
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Morning glow in the northern Drakensberg area. Image: Barry Payne
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Karoo. Image: Kim Wolstenholme
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Across the Cape Town city bowl, arch above the city. Image: Richard Teagle
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Cape Town Welcome. Image: Robin Petersen
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Rainbows in Prince Albert. Image: Renee Strange
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Go Away, spinach thief! Image: Lesley Stones
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Shell Protest Muizenberg Beach. Image: Meg Jordi
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Double-checking foundations. Image: Chris Heymans
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3 days of labour only starting… Image: Chris Heymans
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Mud glorious sublime mud. Image: Janice Ashby
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Balancing at Totem Falls, Beaverlac, Cedarberg. Image: David Muller
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Give me some privacy here! An egret (really) shouting at a hippo mom and calf for thinking about coming up on her piece of shoreline
Chobe River, Nov 2021. Image: Viv Sandwith
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The Barberton Makhonjwa mountains Geotrail; where you can touch the oldest rocks in the world and understand about how all life came to be on this planet. World Heritage Bucket List. Image: Nicky Elliott
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Surreal Sunset. Image: Grant Eglin
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The big suck – Addo National Elephant Park. Image: David Reed
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Salem, East Cape. Dogs and ducks revelling in recent rains. Small farm dam in background been empty for last 8 years. Image: Jack McLeod
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Big sky sunset over a land just planted to maize, eastern Free State. Image: Llewellyn Angus
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Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Camps Bay. Image: Wulf Utian
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Beautiful Red Sunset, taken by me from my back yard. Muldersdrift, Tuesday 7 December 2021. Image: Cecilia Balebetse
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Leopard lazing in the Kruger Park this morning. Image: Ranvir Boodhram
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Owlfly at rest. Seapark, Port Shepstone area. Image: Peter Vos
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Someone is loving this rain. Image: Tandy Coleman & Duke
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Acanthocephala terminalis mating on a grape vine. Image: Erika van Zyl
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A Dogs Life – A restless young Wild Dog watches while the adults sleep. Image: Don Hunter
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Jewel of the Sea. A Peacock mantis shrimp, Aliwal Shoal. Image: Don Hunter
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Night lights from Signal Hill in Cape Town. Image: Dylan Shellard
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Surveying the kingdom, discreetly. Image: Hilton Walker
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We can be heroes, just for one day. Image: Vanessa Hilton-Barber
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Cape Town Stadium from Green Point Park 27 September 2021. Image: Luzette Els, Cape Town
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Pod of 60+ whales Monday, 6 December, around 4pm. Image: Craig Warren
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The mountains of the Eastern Free State. Image: Reinet Ferreira
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Winter morning mare. Baardskeerdersbos, Western Cape. Image: Conrad Owens
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Admiring sunset at de Kelders. Image: David Graham
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Rietvlei Nature Reserve – Rainy season. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
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Vaccination Centre – Paris. Image: Roger Alan Lee
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Sunset at Fernwood Lodge, Central Drakensberg. Image: Denise Le Mottee
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Sky feathers, near Wolseley. Image: Clive Algar
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Storms gather over north Johannesburg. Image: Leslie Tilley
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Right outside my door, just a few kilometers out of Pretoria. Image: Etienne Marais
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Van Rensburg Kop. Near Harrismith 1st Dec 2021. Image: MD .
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Waterberg Dawn. Image: Gideon Fourie