About 740 ostrich farms — as well as 20,000 jobs in farms, slaughterhouses, tanneries and feather-processing plants — might be at risk in an industry that dates to 1864.

President Trump has picked a deep-pocketed luxury handbag designer who is a member of his exclusive Mar-a-Lago club to be the US ambassador to South Africa, the White House announced. Lana Marks, 6… ...

Store windows display ostrich leather bags as well as lamps and other ornaments shaped out of the birds' giant eggs. The flue of the feather can be worked and curled to make brooches, says Saag ...

President Donald Trump has nominated handbag designer Lana Marks to be the next US ambassador to South Africa. Marks, a Florida resident and member of Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort ...

Store windows display ostrich leather bags as well as lamps and other ornaments shaped out of the birds’ giant eggs. The flue of the feather can be worked and curled to make brooches, says Saag ...

South Africa's treehouse hotels are fun from start to finish. It's a bonus if it rains, ... catering for growing global demand for low-fat ostrich meat - and ostrich-skin handbags.

President Donald Trump has nominated handbag designer Lana Marks to be the next US ambassador to South Africa. Marks, a Florida resident and member of Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort ...

Her handbags, some of which sell for the price of a suburban South African house, have an impressive following. US first lady Laura Bush and actresses Jennifer Aniston and Kate Winslet carry her bags.

— Danie Kok kicked his boots in the red dust swirling through empty wire pens at the farm he manages near Oudtshoorn, the world’s ostrich-farming capital. No ostriches were to be seen. “We ...

Ostrich roam in a fenced field on one of Saag Jonker Holdings farms on February 13, 2024 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. Photo/AFP The flue of the feather can be worked and curled to make brooches ...