Every Friday morning during isolation Country Life will be bringing you a short quiz designed to find out just how much you know about this beautiful country and its history.

The Voortrekker Monument found itself increasingly adrift when South Africa switched political course in the 1990s, but since 2000 has been fighting to find its place in modern society.

GREG LANDMAN chats to the country’s top winemakers. Today it’s Cape Winemakers Guild member Samantha O’Keefe from Greyton’s Lismore Estate.

You can get anything you want with a bit of artlure, which is why GEORGE ROBEY loves to indulge in a spot of multi-species angling on Mpumalanga’s Loskop Dam.

Nectarines make a great dessert for an otherwise heavy meal. This recipe is, therefore, a perfect way to end a meal entertaining guests.

Self-confessed as ‘unemployed’ since 1975, Pieter-Dirk Uys has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of all South Africans. The Echo of a Noise only deepens the affection – with laughter and tears.

As OBIE OBERHOLZER leaves the Orange River and joins the Helskloof Pass of the dry land, out tumbles his affection for the Richtersveld, and for an ouma who once lived in Eksteenfontein.

In the Namib Desert, at the spot where the mighty Orange flows into the sea, Namibia’s Town of the Year opens its doors.

The Eastern Cape has been a crucible of black leadership for generations, and the Steve Biko Heritage Trail is dedicated to an extraordinary visionary.

Every Friday morning during isolation Country Life will be bringing you a short quiz designed to find out just how much you know about this beautiful country and its history.

FIONA MCINTOSH explores the forests and rugged coastline of the Garden Route on a luxury, guided Plettenberg glamping trail in Diepwalle.

Just a hop from Johannesburg and Pretoria lies the blissful and busy town of Hartbeespoort Dam.

A stone storybook from five million years ago, the West Coast Fossil Park has fascinating tales, is one of the richest fossil fields on the planet and home to an ancient Big Five, marine animals and Africa’s only bear.

The humble Cussonia or cabbage tree is an all-in-one traditional cure for the most vicious killer diseases on the continent.

Underberg in the Southern Berg is one of those towns where everybody knows your name.

The spectacular spring flower show is just one of the attractions of hiking at Gifberg, a remote mountain wilderness in Namaqualand.

The working life of a platteland magistrate in Tarkastad is a fine combination of a dash of law, some old-fashioned common sense, and a dollop of humanity.

OBIE OBERHOLZER hums his way through the Overberg and gives a happy sigh at finding the tiny town of Herbertsdale with no pretence to being a boutique village.

It’s risky business flying low and slow in hostile conditions, all in the name of conservation. SUE ADAMS meets the aviators who don’t give it a second thought.

ANDREA ABBOTT hops aboard a boat with a pair of scientists and is dazzled by iSimangaliso’s Kosi Bay estuary.

The very nature of a country harvest feast can be found in the first week of November on a rickety table in the middle of a perfectly ramshackle pub in the Karoo village of Nieu-Bethesda.

This is a great take on an extremely traditional Italian dish, developed by the team at La Sosta in Swellendam.

If you are looking to stay somewhere different, or unusual this is the list for you, as there’s nothing ordinary about these country escapes.

ANN GADD is lost and found in the twisting pathways of the Western Cape’s mazes and legendary labyrinths.