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Herding cattle to the stock sale at Ndawana. The Ndawana River used to mark the border between Natal and East Griqualand. Image: Paul Welch
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Dusty streets on Somaliland/Ethiopian border. Image: Richard Harper
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Cheetahs. Image: Jonathan Miles
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Yawning or do you want to bite? Image: Peter Brett
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Karoo Sunrise. Image: Bev Datnow
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Karoo sunset. Image: Bev Datnow
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Good morning Limpopo? Image: Will Morrell and Etihad Airways
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Winter. Northcliff, Johannesburg. Image: Steven Whiting
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Umhlanga lighthouse weeks after the floods. Usually pictures of this sight are postcard perfect. This one reminds me of the damage we do inland but only notice it when it reached the ocean. The ocean starts inland at every drain, stream and river! Image: Sujit Anandhaw
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Mistery Cliff. Image: George Sax Entratainment
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Orange moon. Image: Yacoob Vawda
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Nahoon Reef at Sunrise. Image: Janine Atkinson
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Dinner for one. Image: Diana Allison
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Baby it’s cold outside (Camps Bay Tidal Pool). Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Time To Go. Image: Craig Rebro
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Winter Morning. Image: Craig Rebro
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Evening Rise, Nottingham Road. Image: Gill Green
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Morning Reflections, Nottingham Road. Image: Gill Green
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Salt Rock – Rock pool. Image: Alan Nixon – www.alannixonphotography.com
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Red Dawn. Image: Janice Ashby
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Kirstenbosch: Reaching for the sky. Image: Linda Schomer
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Heading home, Montagu. Image: Allan Duckworth
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God’s glory illuminates everything… Image: André Jansen van Vuuren
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Perfect palm. Mouillipoint. Image: Lesley Fiona Caplan
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Drama at De Kelders near Gansbaai. Image: Roger de la Harpe/Africa Imagery
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Swimmers watch the sunrise in Kalk Bay. Image: Dirk Pieters
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Country Road, Karwyderskraal near Hermanus. Image: Christina Coates
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Amazing Scenery @ Okavango Delta. Image: Karin Linder
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Beware of the dog – in 3 languages. At The Barn, Tonteldoos. Image: Leon Meyer.
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Royal love in Camps Bay 🧡. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Sunset at Kariba Dam(lake) in Zimbabwe. Image: Motlogelwa Mboniswa
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Leopard seen near Lower Sabie, KNP. Image: Ronnie Herr
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Happy hour. Image: Tim Prettejohn Photography
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Friendly citizen of our shared planet. (Coquerel’s Sifaka, for those who need to know). Image: Len de Beer
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First light lovely. Image: Marek Bozalek
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Settling in for the night (Kruger National Park, on the banks of the Sand River). Image: Willie Pienaar
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Winter walkers Twinstreams road Mtunzini. Image: Barbara Chedzey
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Sunday afternoon stroll on Table Mountain. Image: Natalie Greatorex
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Farm Bridge, Karwyderskraal’s Road, Overberg. Image: Christina Coates
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5th June 2022 moonshine over Camps Bay. Image: Suzanne Himely
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Some elephant play at Amakhosi Safari Lodge. Image: John Haslett
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Aloe season. Robin Hill farm Salem East Cape. Image: Jack McLeod
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Cattle at The Ndawana sale. Image: Paul Welch
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Siesta in the Kruger. Image: Zulch Lotter
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Four Terrapins bathing in sun on back and head of Hippo. Image: Zulch Lotter
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Me and the missus. As close as ever. Image: Colin Butler
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Street Life, San Francisco. Image: D Lazarus
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Little tree has lost her leaves. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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Gonerazhou sunset over the Runde river. Image: Don Nash
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Southern Ground Hornbill on access patrol. Image: Claudia Epprecht
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Praying Mantis. Taken on the deck of our cottage outside White River, Mpumalanga. Image: Eleonora Williams
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Umhlanga Rocks from Microlight. Image: Beate Kleim
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Sometimes mountains are small. Image: Ken Barris
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Good morning, Mombasa. Image: Chris Heymans
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Umtenweni sunrise. Image: Eric Hodgson
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It is a ‘macro’ picture of the style and stigma of a Hibiscus flower. Image: Peter Reber
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Bath Queue. Image: Roger Alan Lee @rogeralanlee
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Still waters runneth…in Mombasa. Image: Chris Heymans