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A South African adventure

It’s Sunday lunchtime at the Voco hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and families and friends sip glasses of chilled chenin and dance to live jazz. The Voco, and its in-house restaurant, Proud Mary, only opened in February, but they have quickly become favourites with locals and out-of-towners. Johannesburg has an ever-evolving social scene, and although some areas have been hit harder than others during the pandemic, Rosebank, with its art galleries, shops and restaurants, is thriving.

From here I head to Constitution Hill – a museum complex made up of Prison No.4, which once held both Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. A tour here will give you a good overview of South Africa’s political history. My guide, Zikhona Macala, takes a group of

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