South Africa
It’s supposed to be a no-go city. But I went anyway, and loved it
Local police have issued us with travel advice about valuables, strangers and dark alleys before we’ve even arrived.
- Brian Johnston
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Everything is over-the-top at this hotel. No wonder Elton John loved it
You’d imagine anywhere the British pop star stays might be over-the-top, and you’re not wrong when it comes to this eye-popping South African retreat.
- Brian Johnston
Utilitarian at best: The international airport the designers forgot
It’s a lot better than it was before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but it’s still plain, uninspiring and sprawling.
- Julietta Jameson
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- Adventure holidays
A stare-off with a wild elephant taught me a valuable lesson
At this point I think, he’ll move away now, once he realises we’re blocking his path. He doesn’t. He keeps on coming.
- Lee Tulloch
On the trip of a lifetime, I left my camera behind. I don’t regret it
I used to witness the world’s great wildlife destinations through a viewfinder. Then this one changed me.
- Julietta Jameson
Trump’s ‘evidence’ of dead white farmers is from Congo – not South Africa
The president also falsely claimed that footage of a rural road in South Africa lined with white crosses showed more than 1000 “burial sites”.
- Stephanie Burnett and Milan Pavicic
‘Look at Australia’: Trump ambushes South African president over ‘white genocide’
In another extraordinary Oval Office confrontation, the US president showed his South African counterpart a video alleging the state-sanctioned murder of white Afrikaner farmers, and said they were fleeing to countries including the US and Australia.
- Michael Koziol
Trump grants white South Africans refugee status in the US
The group of about 50 arrived in the US as refugees, a humanitarian designation meant for those fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.
- Teo Armus and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
I hate dung and donkeys. Then I discovered the world’s best farm visit
A 330-year-old farm in Cape Town’s winelands has become South Africa’s latest tourist attraction, and it’s brilliant.
- Brian Johnston
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