Seeds from South Africa's world-famous rooibos tea are headed to the International Space Station to see how they respond to ...

Discover how South Africa's Rooibos in Space programme is merging agricultural innovation with space research, sending ...

The small town in the Western Cape is a key site for the cultivation and production of a tea plant unique only to South ...

Given these figures, it came as welcome news that last month China reduced import tariffs for South African Rooibos tea from between 15 percent to 30 percent down to 6 percent. Despite being South ...

Rooibos tea, a caffeine-free drink made from the leaves of a shrub indigenous to South Africa, is part of the country's heritage. Commercial cultivation of rooibos began in the early 20th century.

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown widely popular around the... High atop a remote plateau in South Africa's Cederberg ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- From frothy red lattes to rust-colored teas, popular rooibos drinks will likely become scarcer and more expensive because of a widespread drought in South Africa, including in ...

High atop a remote plateau in South Africa's Cederberg Mountains, half a dozen Indigenous Khoisan men stride briskly along rows of thigh-high shrubs. Every few yards they pause and stoop down to ...