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Sun with rainbow around! Image: Mathilda Gey van Pittius
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Sunset at Ilha de Mozambique. Image: @h_salejee
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Rock Kestrel -Undeniable Beauty. Image: Peter Tychsen
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Beauty Beach. Image: Deon Muller
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Secretary bird masquerading as a North American Apache Indian. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Image: Steph Vermeulen
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Peaceful. Image: Corrie Botha
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After the rain comes sunshine…
Image: Glória Clegg
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Walter Sisulu botanical gardens. Image: Glória Clegg
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What are you looking at? Image: Nicole Beare
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Hermanus dawn. Image: Greg Garden.
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Grubs up, in Entabeni. Image: Ben Durham
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A close encounter at Addo. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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Charlie’s last swim of the day on Scarborough Beach. Image: Sue O’Brien
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Looking out over Kettlespout falls, Hogsback. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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Oh no – another gap. Taken at Dikhololo at the beginning of the summer. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
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Stormy sky over Sanbona Nature Reserve WC Saturday 15 January 2022. Image: Heila Downey.
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Fishermen at Naturesvalley. Image: Peter Swart
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How green is my valley. A road trip round South Africa during the festive period, showed how luridly green the country is (mostly). This image was taken in the Transkei. Image: Hugh Fraser
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One legged black bird. Image: Greg Meikle Braes
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Wolf Moon, 2022. Image: Chris Heymans
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Cape St Francis – the view from the top of the lighthouse at Seal Point. Image: Supplied
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Flying Saucer Menaces Cape Town. Image: Janice Ashby
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Cederberg. Not today, thank you! Image: Rosemund Handler
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The dam in Eedenglen Retirement Village, Jeffreys Bay. Image: Piet Aucamp
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Overgrazing in the Karoo. Image: Jane Turner
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Oyster catcher at Hangklip beach Pringle Bay. Image: Karin Linder
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Our Dying Oceans – West Coast, SA. Image: Sonia Elliott
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Durban summer sunrise. Image: Quraisha Dawood
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Rough Seas at Bakoven. Image: Leigh-Ann Scarratt
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Bath time at The Crags. Image: David Collett
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Surf’s up! Image: Alex Downes
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The top 20 Northern Cape achievers in the 2021 National Senior Certificate Examination were crowned on Friday in Kimberley. Besides the honour of being amongst the top 20 some of them also won certificates for being the top achievers in certain subjects. Each of them won R10 000 in cash and a laptop computer. Matthew Holm, top achiever received a cheque for R50 000. 21.01.2022. Picture: Charné Kemp
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Matthew Holm from Kathu High school, the top achiever in the Northern Cape was congratulated by Premier Dr. Zamani Saul, in Kimberley on Friday. Holm is enrolled at Stellenbosch University where he will study BSc Data Science with Applied Mathematics. He also won an accolade as the top achiever in mathematics. 21.01.2022. Picture: Charné Kemp
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The top three 2021 achievers in the National Senior Certificate Examination in the Northern Cape are, from left to right: Khadija Hoosain from Kimberley Girls’ High in third position, Shannon Wong Fatt, also from Kimberley Girls’ High in second position and Matthew Holm from High School Kathu is the top achiever. Hoosain is studying optometry at the University of Johannesburg, Fatt is enrolled to study medicine at Stellenbosch University and Holm will study BSc Data Science with Applied Mathematics at the same university. 21.01.2022. Picture: Charné Kemp
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Flower photos. Image: Donovan Gericke, Stilfontein, North-West Province
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Monkey Business. Image: Rybka
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Tsitsikamma Rainforest. Image: Francesca Strydom
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Walk at the river mouth, Strand beach. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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Almost full moon over the Clocktower Bridge Waterfront Cape Town. Image: Nat Gold ZA
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Baby wagtails at Cape St Francis. Image: Karien Du Toit
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Jeffrey’s Bay at low tide. Image: Ruan Greeff
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Oyster catchers enjoying the sunset at Yzerfontein. Image: Ruan Greeff
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Image: John Mostert
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Oudtshoorn prepares for a thunderstorm. Image: Ruan Greeff
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Feed me! (Jessica The Hippo, Hoedspruit). Image: Paul Finnie Tapper