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Results18The minister responds: SA rail agency is broken
A statement from Fikile Mbalula, South African Minister of Transport 15 January 2020 Prasa (the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) has suffered blows from many
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A long love affair with trains
There is something so special about a long-distance train journey. You travel through so much more than geography. It feels like you can see time, the
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A survivor’s guide to train travel in SA
A 10-point guide to resisting the South African railway service’s best efforts to ruin what should be one of the most beautiful train journeys in the
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Give reality the slip at the Wild Coast
The more things have changed the more they have stayed the same since the days when it was one of ‘Sun King’ Sol Kerzner’s original palaces of relaxation and fun in the nominally
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A connection, a picture, a story is worth a million miles
Star Alliance is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a worldwide competition celebrating cultural connections made by travellers in which entrants stand a chance to win a
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When the journey is the destination
Sometimes one goes there and back just to see how far it is, this was a day like that. A steam train trip from Cape Town
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Vergelegen wins global wine tourism award
Western Cape vineyard Vergelegen was among wineries celebrated on Thursday night at the 2017 international “Best Of Wine Tourism” awards ceremony at the Sao Bento da
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Cape Town overtakes Bali as best value for long haul
Cape Town Tourism’s chief executive, Enver Duminy, this week talked about “affordable luxury” as he welcomed the news that the Mother City had been named best-value
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Zambia, a reason to be thankful
By Siphelele Dludla “Zikomo”, the local way of saying thank you in Lusaka, always evokes a smile when said by a foreigner, Zambians rightfully laying claim to
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