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A sharp turn off the highway landed us on a dodgy dirt road lined with small, red mud-brick houses with neat windows and straw roofs, raised on mud plinths. Time slowed as we watched women wrapped in colourful cloth hoeing the fields, some with babie

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS (P 12) Distilling what Chari-Johan does for a living into one or two words is tricky. ‘It depends on what I'm working on at the time,’ he admits, ‘but “musical director and composer” probably sums it up best.’ He is also a

Water is Earth's oddest liquid, a willy-nilly bender of all the rules of science. Good thing, too, because if it adhered to science's playbook, there would be no water. Instead, what is our oceans and rivers and lakes - the stuff we drink to stay ali

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Alec Davies The government ministers must closely investigate this. Dale Hylton Yes, but the problem is that we can't afford R300 million per paddle board for them to get there. Norman Tedder People don't believe the sea off the Wild Coast opens up a

Ecology is deeply entrenched in my photography practice; I let it take centre stage in my work With everything that's going on with the planet - warming of the ice caps, severe plastic and effluent pollution of our waters, and the emissions choking o

The Malkin 1000L fits in the hand nicely and is not too heavy (164g) to carry in the hip-belt pouch that comes with it. With a decent beam, it's a useful little torch to have in a campsite or in the hands of your braai assistant. There are four brigh

That Jesus, he sure does make a person fat, what with his birthday celebrations and, before our New Year's resolutions have gone cold, his death and the attendant chocolate bunnies and hot cross buns. Slathered with butter; there's no other way. Devo

There was a tussle at the airport. A near-brawl. It was the end of our trip and we'd made it through passport control, the long wait for check-in, even the easy land border crossing from Zambia into Zimbabwe at Vic Falls, but then the scanners picked

AFRICA'S PREMIER PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION FINALIST Category: Drone and Landscape We were at a lodge on the banks of the Orange River near Hopetown in the Northern Cape. On our last day we got to the lookout point just in time to send our drones up to

Have you been to some distant shores with a camera in hand? Have you travelled to Mongolia in winter, Ireland in summer or Paternoster in spring? If you haven't travelled afar, don't be deterred, we're more interested in the image than the location.

Something I love about photography is that it seems to slow down time. Minimalism takes it a step further; the simplicity in a photograph can intensify and engage the viewer's imagination so they can be the ones who build a story based on what they s

The attack was frenzied. Dogs barked and snarled, their handlers shouting orders, urging them on. With canine jaws clamped on to each of his sleeves, a man was brought down to the ground and incapacitated. If this had been a real-life scenario, that

There are flights with RwandAir from Johannesburg to Kigali for about R5 300 return. Other airlines that fly into Kigali International include Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, KLM, Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines. On arrival in Rwanda, South Afr

There are places all over the world that are considered “adventure capitals”. Interlaken in Switzerland is one, where every minute brings a new thrill. The vie ferrate can be particularly hairraising. You can also go canyoning, skydiving, heliskiing

Animal Ocean takes tours at 9:30am, 11:30am and 1:30pm every day, starting from Hout Bay harbour although you meet at the offices in Albert Road. You can rent a GoPro with underwater casing (R350 with an SD card and R200 if you bring your own SD card

Cheeks slick with sweat, wide-eyed expressions oscillating between curiosity and contained terror, jubilation and glee. These people knew they were being entertained, yet they had bought into the reality of the ritual, allowed themselves to feel frig

From Mangochi, you can cruise south along the Shire River, which drains Lake Malawi, to reach Liwonde National Park, but the trip is also an interesting drive through an evocative landscape. For one stretch there is a seemingly infinite expanse of ba

Two names loom large in Malawi's fierce and tumultuous past – both are learned “doctors”: David Livingstone and Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Like many modern African states created by arbitrary European borders, Malawi is an aggregation of diverse clans, t

Malawi Airlines flies to Blantyre and Lilongwe from Joburg; we found direct flights for R9 857 pp return (malawian-airlines.com, ethiopianairlines.com). SA passport holders do not require visas. Malawian kwacha (R1 = 58 kwacha) can be obtained at air

Adorned in a woollen scarf and a winter's hat that looked like a dead badger, I hunkered down behind a pile of boulders covered in lichen, held my breath, and hoped the cat wouldn't see me. So far so good! Torres del Paine National Park in southern C

Getting to South America remains arduous for South Africans. Strap in, because there are no direct flights to Patagonia from outside Chile and Argentina. You will need to fly into either Santiago or Buenos Aires (probably via Europe) before taking a

His hands, so nimble, dextrous and effervescent on a piano keyboard, were gripping the steering wheel, powering the sturdy Isuzu D-Max double-cab up Du Toitskloof Pass. We were en route from Cape Town to Villiersdorp, where this musical maestro was m

Though his images depict idyllic beauty, Kenyan photographer Joseph “Nabster” Chege says he offers them as an opportunity for ‘reflecting on the vastness of everything as well as the minuteness of my being’. They are also, he says, ‘a form of therapy

Perched high above the city on the flanks of Signal Hill, Onder Dorp is the brand-new homestay wing below the fabulously romantic Dorp Hotel – a tranquil oasis, with panoramic views of Table Mountain, minutes from the city's top attractions. Like Dor