If you ask Professor John Compton what Table Mountain is, he won’t give you the simple answer you may have hoped for. He won’t say “a mountain in Cape Town” or even “a famous landmark”. Instead, he ...

For hundreds of millions of years it has dominated the coastal skyline of southern Africa, imposing a dramatic and domineering backdrop to an idyllic location. Table Mountain, recently voted one of ...

A new article in Daily Maverick’s The Storied Mountain series has shed light on the lives of people who have quietly made their homes on the slopes of Table Mountain. The piece follows two individuals ...

Table Mountain is so familiar it risks becoming invisible – a postcard backdrop, a fixed silhouette above the city. But this series looks closer. The Storeyed Mountain explores Table Mountain as an ...