For the urban adventurer, your typical survival course would teach you how to solve problems that would help you survive in your city. For Capetonians, how to fashion a wind shelter from construction tape and discarded craft beer bottles. For Jo’burgers, it’d be how to navigate past a cash-in-transit van without spooking the guards or becoming a statistic. City life […]
South Africa’s natural beauty is almost unsurpassed – we have some of the most beautiful views, food and people on the planet. A glance out your window or at your fellow passengers will confirm that. Well, definitely out the window… The maxim ‘you get what you pay for’ rings especially true when it comes to the finer things in life […]
Professional athletes and models are blessed with something more important than talent. Sure, some of them hit the Looks Lottery or the Talent Trifecta at the genetic bookies’, but the bulk of those who make it to the top of their game, spent a long time working at it. There’s no need to give half your life over to your […]
Thami Prusent has a strange sense of fun. The rugby-playing economics graduate entered Big Brother Africa in 2008 and managed a whirlwind romance in front of the cameras – and the whole continent. He emerged after 77 days and started seeking a new adventure. After 3 years of plotting, he decided to travel from Cape Town to Cairo – without […]
In Shangaan, ‘Tintswalo’ means “the intangible feeling of love, gratitude and peace bestowed upon someone offering you a meaningful and worthy gift”. For the literal, ‘Tintswalo at Waterfall’ would then mean ‘feeling strongly about someone who just gave you a nice present, while getting soaked by cascading water’. Sometimes, it’s best to not take things too literally. Tintswalo at Waterfall […]
Think ‘themed hotel’ and you’ll immediately imagine Montecasino’s cavernous faux-Tuscan excesses or tacky Las Vegas extravagance. Morrell’s Boutique Estate – a little French enclave just off the bustling boulevard of Beyers Naude – dispels that myth by mixing class and elegance in a way seldom found in themed establishments. Owners Bernice and Mike Morrell have converted the buildings from a […]
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