The V & A Waterfront will be teeming with all sorts of showmen and showgirls, tricksters and tramps next weekend when it hosts the first ever
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Results23Cape 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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Same old difference in Nairobi
There is nothing like a little trip into Africa to shatter some old stereotypes and confirm a few others. Back in Nairobi last week after an absence
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The sensational Sillage takes Gold
Sillage won a a Gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the only one given this year. How I love it when I back
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From the snowy peaks of Davos to the green hills of Kigali
It seems impossible not to feel the weight of history in Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills. Terrible things happen. The world keeps turning. People recover. I
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Boom time in SA’s boom town
Looking at the Cape Town Central City Improvement District’s (CCID) latest state of the central city report you would be forgiven for thinking 2016 was the
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There’s gold in every drop
Klipdrift Premium has been named 2016’s World’s Best Brandy at the World Brandy Awards. Devotees of that South African fireside favourite ‘Klippies and coke’ might not
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The cool, convenience of Uber rolls into PE
After much speculation about which African city would be next, Uber, the smartphone app that connects passengers with taxis, has said it will start testing its
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A smokin’ love affair
“It has to be Ardbeg!” The (familiar) accent was reassuring, and the confidence disarming as Smokin’ Josh Smit elbowed the duty free sales guy aside and
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While I was away I: Jozi
While I was away, Johannesburg has turned its back on its old emotional insecurity and obsession with guns, gangs and guards and blossomed into a hip,
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