Claire Keeton Senior features writer

Claire Keeton is a features writer who has earned awards for her HIV and mental health coverage, and has reported on Covid, including as a vaccine trial volunteer and from inside a Covid ICU. She has spent 30 years exploring SA and been to more than 60 countries reporting on human rights, civil conflicts and environmental threats, as well as doing adventure travel

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
Winning tricks in poker work in life, professionals say at a world event in ...

Winning at the high stakes game can also help you in real life, say some professional players, in Cape Town for the SunBet Poker Tournament, writes ...

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
Taking on a ‘gobsmackingly bananas’ climate crisis

Major fossil-fuel producer the UAE is hosting COP28, the latest edition of the global initiative to cut the use of those same fossil fuels

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
UN climate summit kicks off with millions pledged to developing world

This fund will ‘support billions of ... livelihoods that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change’, says COP28 president

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
Greater protection for vulnerable Atlantic rays and sharks in the pipeline

But Japan stopped measures to ban deadly shark finning at fisheries’ meeting

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
How to say no to genocide

When the |Xam San were being massacred in the Cape, a British official took up their struggle, writes Claire Keeton

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
SICK Pride raises awareness of long Covid, ME and ‘invisible diseases’

It’s like being in ‘permanent lockdown’,  says organiser

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
Me and my cells: Meet award-winning women making waves in science

When she talks about 'my cells', award-winning scientist Esther Uwimaana she means the ones she works with in a lab all day.

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
The good, bad and ugly: a tale of rural rubbish dumps

Historic inequality in service delivery such as waste collection and management is likely to worsen, experts predict — and again the poor will be ...

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
'Helihackers' swoop in to protect Table Mountain's fynbos and fresh water

Eighteen volunteer “helihackers” removed more than 1,300 pines and other invasive trees from Table Mountain’s upper slopes, and 800 invasives from ...

Claire Keeton Senior features writer
French singers win top honours at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia contest

South African soprano Nombulelo Yende, sister to diva Pretty Yende, wins award