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The Top Star in better days. PHOTO: Rodney Jones
Remember the Top Star Drive-in, one of Jo’burg’s more heartwarming landmarks? Read More…
On the beach, Langebaan Lagoon. Click to enlarge
17 July 2011. It was one of those Cape winter days which might not be winter at all, a bright, warm morning, blue sky and still water. Read More…
I hopped a couple of South African freight trains and discovered that all things are not equal on Transnet’s tracks.
6.30am, Voorbaai rail yard DAN Pienaar, driver of 1174, the weekday freight from Mossel Bay to Worcester, is champing at the bit. It’s going to be hot and, with a pair of ailing 46-year-old diesels up front, who knows what trials the day may bring. 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…
Qantas may stop flying to Johannesburg and South America to focus instead on its routes to London and Los Angeles. Read More…
In all the continuing gloom that seems to follow the global airline business like a leper – such as Europeans looking at months of travel chaos due to a planned strike by thousands of Iberia employees this coming summer – we take what good news we can and bask in it. Read More…
1time airline says it is determined to find out what killed 751 African Grey parrots on one of the carrier’s flights from Johannesburg to Durban on Christmas Eve. Read More…
These pics, currently doing the rounds of the web, show the terrifying sight at Beaufort West’s dam: totally, throat-cracking dry. Read More…
Jonny Bealby, founder of adventure touring company Wild Frontiers, told The Daily Telegraph how he felt about travelling to places that people regard as dangerous.
“… the truth is that some of the most fascinating places in the world are also the most challenging, and it is by travelling there, rather than simply relying for information on the media – or Hollywood films – that we learn the most. Essentially, I have always felt that it should be up to us as individuals, and not governments, to decide where we can go. Our challenge is to see that we do it safely.”
Look at the pictures. Which one best describes what the average tourist who comes to South Africa thinks of this country? The kid playing in the sea on Muizenberg beach? Or the cop holding shotgun shells?
If you said the shotgun shells, you would be wrong. The reporting about the Cape Town honeymoon murder notwithstanding, South Africa is still a pretty safe place for tourists. Most of the time. In fact, foreign press reports have, on the whole, been pretty balanced, saying that while South Africa may be wracked with violent crime, tourists are hardly ever the victims. Read More…
