SA COUNTRY LIFE has its sights set on accommodation and things to do in the southern African countryside. We travel far and wide to bring you the best places to visit from Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg to the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, the Karoo, the Northern Cape and everywhere in between.
Our offbeat A to Z is all you need on Mpumalanga’s splendid Panorama Route in the Lowveld.
On the Garub plains in south-western Namibia, the future of a population of wild horses hangs in the balance.
Nearly every roadside, graveyard, hotel and museum in the Karoo has its own ghost story and each is eerier than the next.
While most of this article is about the history of the area, and the small town of Vermaaklikheid and Duiwenhoks…
Time stands still in the Red Cederberg which is as wild, pristine and undiscovered as it was ten years ago when this article was written.
Hazyview is a gateway to the rest of the Lowveld, a melting pot of people and cultures that offers a taste of Mpumalanga.
The Eastern Cape village of Bedford is renowned for its heritage gardens, but now it sports a lively new hub of speciality shopkeepers.
So you thought it was olives, wine and food that put the little Swartland town of Riebeek-Kasteel on the map? It is really so much more.
OBIE OBERHOLZER ponders on the slow demise of the great village hotel and sets out to find those that still keep their spirits flying
There are many reasons to take it slow between Springbok in the Northern Cape and Elandsbaai on the West Coast.
More than a century after the Feather Boom, the mansions and legends it spawned in and around Oudtshoorn are being spruced up as part of an enduring and diverse ostrich industry
There’s a pub in the middle of nowhere in the Karoo where rugby is always top of mind.
Welcome to De Rust, a true platteland dorpie with all its quirks, legends, and local characters intent on uplifting their village. And the coffee ain’t bad either.
This route may have been named after the major crop of the area, hops, but the Outeniqua Country Hop is far more than a one-trick pony.
These are some of our favourite historic guesthouses where visitors can soak in this country’s storied past.
Far-reaching moves by the government, including a travel ban and prohibition of large gathers, have been enacted to prevent the further spread of Coronavirus.
The Eastern Cape’s Maqoma Route neatly captures the drama of the South African struggle for land, a thorny issue that reverberates today.
A place of dignity and beauty, !Khwa ttu encompasses all aspects of San culture.