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It’s a wilderness in every sense of the word: far away and almost forgotten, a place that the Portuguese dubbed “fim do mundo’ – the end of the earth.
Nature takes its fiery course in the shadow of one of the inselberg outcrops that dot the reserve PICTURE: Russell Scott
Roving travel writer Janine Stephen wrote us this marvellous story on the Niassa National Reserve which lies in the liquid embrace of the Rovuma and Lugenda rivers in the far north of Mozambique. Read More…
1time Airlines has called it quits on the Johannesburg-Maputo route. The airline’s last flight to the Mozambican capital will be on August 31.
The airline says it would need a greater allocation of the number of seats it can sell on the route to make it more viable. Read More…
TAP Portugal will cease flights on the Lisbon-Johannesburg route from June 1, the airline said this week.
The carrier plans to focus on its direct route between Maputo and Lisbon. Travellers wishing to fly from Johannesburg will be accommodated on short-haul flights on Mozambican carrier LAM and South African Airways.
A connecting flight is, by definition, a poor substitute for a direct flight but it’s clear from the move that TAP sees more value in its Maputo connection. It also means much less competition: instead of scrapping with dozens of European and Gulf airlines over the same little pie, TAP and LAM will operate the Maputo-Lisbon route together under a codeshare agreement. Read More…
Sometimes the good guys win one. And by good guys, I mean a group of dedicated Mozambican cops. Read More…
A friend of mine in the banana trade has recently made the long trek to northern Mozambique. In Nampula, the capital of the Norte, he and a colleague stumbled across something that made my day. Read More…
If you’ve ever had to fly to Maputo from Jo’burg, you’ll remember the sting of the ticket price: a couple of grand each way which, mile for mile, worked out as one of the more expensive flights in southern Africa. Read More…
A correspondent – a professional and highly experienced railwayman – reminded me last night that runaway trains have been a bitter part of railroading ever since the time rail wagons were first unhooked from a locomotive. Read More…
Look at this picture! This is the terrifying sight of the Limpopo River floodplain at the peak of the 100-year flood in February 2000. That was a river, now it’s a sea.
Mozambique was drowning. Ten years ago this month, the Limpopo River, swollen by weeks and weeks of rain on the South African Highveld finally broke its banks and rolled across the floodplain of southern Mozambique.
This was a biblical deluge. It came roaring down the escarpment, sweeping away people, cattle, dogs and wild animals, snapping old trees in half and scouring soil and rock from the earth. It destroyed buildings and dams and tore bridges from their abutments. When the waters receded cars were found smashed into the bedrock and the remains of houses – poles and doors and pieces of roof – were spat into the sea. Read More…
Water thunders out of Hartbeespoort Dam this week/Danie Smith
This was the sobering sight this week as all the sluice gates at Hartbeespoort Dam were opened to relieve some of the pressure on the dam which is 106% full.
In this usually parched land, you don’t see this kind of thing too often. Read More…
Sunday Times photographer Raymond Preston hopped on the luxury 42-foot catamaran Broadbill for a couple of days of game fishing on St Lazarus Banks, off the coast of Northern Mozambique.
They hooked dorado, tuna, sailfish and a couple of seriously toothy and vicious barracuda.
To experience some of the action close up, check out Fishing off St Lazarus Banks, Preston’s outstanding slideshow.
