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‘09 Kilimanjaro New Years Eve Summit17.08.2008 02:53Join me this year for a personally guided New Year’s Eve Summit of Kilimanjaro. We have a total of twelve spaces offered for this unique trip to watch the sun rise over Africa from its highest point. If you have had some memorable New Years Eve experiences in the past I can personally guarantee that [...] |
Poor White Problem Back to Haunt Afrikaaners09.08.2008 18:02Thanks for this piece to South African writer and travel pro Sean Ross South Africa’s poor white problem is starting to raise a sizeable blip on the nation’s social radar again some 70 years after racially divisive (apartheid) policies had been put in place to end what was then a symbol Afrikaaner embarrassment. That poverty [...] |
The History and Culture of Lesotho05.08.2008 00:49Thanks to K. Limakatso Kendall, traveller and writer, for this piece on Lesotho Geography and Dinosaurs First there was the land. Fifty million years before the Alps thrust skyward, sheets of golden yellow sandstone were heaved, tossed, and capped by volcanic spew that hardened into basalt. Dinosaurs slapped their tails in the muck and left [...] |
Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera27.07.2008 01:00This amazing phographic sequence was recently captured at Kruger National Park by American Wildlife Photographer Hal Brindley while he was concentrating on a unrelated subject. According to wildlife experts this is the first recorded or witnessed incident of its type. The incident astonished park rangers who had no explaination as to why the leopard would [...] |
Surfing hippo shot dead23.07.2008 02:39By Sean Ross Nonkululeko, KwaZulu-Natal’s surfing hippo, has been shot dead by authorities this week. The wandering hippo, whose curious behavior of taking to the surf was reported on earlier on SouthAfricaLogue, was apparently posing an increased risk to human life. Her death follows suspicions that she was responsible for the fatal attack this weekend past on [...] |
Add your South Africa budget hotel or B&B to the Hostel Directory21.07.2008 08:00If you own or operate a South Africa bed & breakfast, hostel, budget hotel, lodge or any other budget accommodation – or you know someone who does – you (or they) should enter the information into the new worldwide Hostel Directory . This will be an extensive and global directory of budget accommodations. You [...] |
News From Marloth Park16.07.2008 03:00Genie Retief is a renowned birding guide and wildlife expert who lives and works out of the Marloth Park Private Game Reserve on the borders of Kruger National Park. She is available for small group, private and exclusive tours through the park and in any of the birding regions of South Africa. Feel free to [...] |
The Bo-Kaap: A Show Piece of Cape Town Culture09.07.2008 01:58One of the most picturesque quarters of a beautiful city is Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap. Once known as the Malay Quarter, the area was in fact the home of a predominately Muslim population drawn from many quarters of the eastern world, and imported to The Cape predominately as slaves or bonded workers during the 16th and [...] |
The World Celebrates 90 Years of Nelson Mandela03.07.2008 17:52The battle for the position of grand elder statesman on the African continent was won several years ago by Nelson Mandela. The competition was stiff, for the moral gravity of the anti-apartheid struggle was bound to produce a crop of men of towering stature, tempered by the fire of The Struggle, and burnished by extraordinary, [...] |
Stargazing In The Cederberg01.07.2008 06:45Cederberg Astronomical Observatory In a country with more angles on tourism than on a cut diamond, I was interested to discover the existence in the South African Cederberg of a private observatory that offers the opportunity for stargazer and astro-enthusiasts to indulge in some southern hemisphere observations. The Cederberg Astronomical Observatory was established in 1980 by [...] |
South African Music22.06.2008 03:12The sub-divisions within the South African music industry are enormous, and commence, as with everything else in South Africa, along the basic sub-divisions of race. South Africa is a member of the Commonwealth family, a stem from the root of European colonial expansion, and as a consequence the nation is closely aligned with others such [...] |
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The Sardines Arrive17.06.2008 18:21Another great contribution from South African industry pro and travel writer Sean Ross. KNZ Sardine Fever It’s a real gamble setting a festival date to celebrate the expected arrival of a natural phenomenon, in this case the greatest shoal of fish on earth, many months in advance of their arrival. And even more so when this incredible [...] |
Photo of the Day12.06.2008 18:52Bush Pilot Blues |
The News We Deserve11.06.2008 18:08By Sean Ross The News We Deserve For weeks on end the marketing department of E-News, South Africa’s first 24-hour television news channel, were promising viewers that as of launch date on June 1, paying customers would finally be receiving “The news you deserve”. Naturally I started wondering how I had managed all these years to be [...] |
Lilliesleaf Farm: A Page in the Book of the Liberation Struggle11.06.2008 06:01A small but important part of South African liberation mythology was committed to posterity this week when the Lilliesleaf Farm in the Rivonia suburb of Johannesburg was declared a museum and national monument to the Liberation Struggle. Although the bustling suburb of Rivonia has since grown up around this apparently innocuous house, in the early [...] |
South African Literature07.06.2008 02:04Growing up I lived and breathed the work of South African writers like Stuart Cloete, who chronicled the history of white South Africa in factual novels that appealed very much to a child steeped in the ideals of empire. Cloete related rather one sided tales of the Great Trek, the Anglo/Zulu War, the Anglo/Boer War, [...] |
Shootout at Sodwana Bay03.06.2008 18:09Sodwana Shootout You will be forgiven for thinking that the Shootout at Sodwana Bay is yet another cowboy style cash-in-transit heist gone wrong in this country with its voracious appetite for exotic crime. In fact it is nothing of the sort. The Shootout is an annual gathering of national and international SCUBA diver photographers and videographers [...] |
The Surfing Hippo of KwaZulu/Natal02.06.2008 20:12A curious story of a surfing hippo has been doing the rounds in South Africa recently. First spotted in the KNZ coastal resort town of Ballito, situated about 40km north of Durban, the vagrant hippo has been steadily making its way south from the area of the St Lucia wetlands in Maputaland, where the species [...] |
Violence, Crime and the 2010 World Cup30.05.2008 18:12There was something a little ironic this week about the erstwhile doyen of the African National Congress, Winnie Maikizela Mandela, trumpeting her dismay at the wave of xenophobic violence that has, and continues to sweep through South Africa. Considering that her immortal contribution to the catalogue of English language quotes was …with our boxes [...] |
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