Durban - My Kind of City Durban seaside Durban by the sea - a short guide for The National UAE. Why Durban? Durban, with its palm trees and banana plantations within the Kingdom of the Zulu along the east coast of South Africa, is often overlooked in favour of glamourous cousin Cape Town. [...]
Stellenbosch beyond the vineyards - Western Cape Traditionally, Stellenbosch has been the town of wineries and wealthy students. There is much more to experience though, as Ishay Govender-Ypma discovered: Stellenbosch beyond the vineyards. For Business Day 5 Dec 2014. Mandela art work Cultural Immersion Through the tight alleyways, single file we follow Thembi [...]
The Swartland Winelands - Sizzling! While areas like Stellenbosch and Franschhoek are synonymous with good South African wines, the Swartland has gained a reputation for its sublime, soulful wines. A tough area to tame, new-age winemakers have taken to the sun and soil here, drawing on a sense of community. Non-commercial, with a striking background [...]
Festival Food The beats are rocking; your best mates are dancing close to you dressed in equally outrageous outfits. The mutual consensus is that you are all ravenous. Festival food - what can you expect? Long gone are the days of lurid pink viennas...This article appeared in SAA Mango Juice magazine, October 2014. It’s three [...]
Maboneng - Neighbourhood Guide Maboneng sign What To Do And See In Maboneng Precinct. 10 Cool things to do in Maboneng, For AFK Travel, 2 November 2014. 1. Maboneng Precinct A once-neglected corner of Johannesburg’s the eastern industrial heartland, Maboneng, Sotho for “Place of Light”, or Jeppestown as it was commonly known, has [...]
Hot Sauce: yesterday, and today. The Sauces Rocking our Plates Right Now Send her the Tabasco When I look back on it, nothing could adequately have prepared me. At the age of 17, I left the snug-safety of my mother’s aromatic Indian kitchen and hurtled into the unknown world of well-worn communal tables and the [...]
Markets & Cooking in Fez, Morocco Even before we reach our riad, a silent journey from Meknes with a surly but kind driver, I decide that I like Fes. Leaving Riad Norma, in the steep enclave of Ziat, we huff and puff at a hurried pace to our cooking class at Clock Café. Past the [...]
Goat Cari and Garam Massalé – Feasting in Réunion Island Linguistics, culture and feasting in Reunion Island. Tamils on the Island Carol & Frederika “The desire to identify as Tamil is important to us because it was denied in the past,” says Frederika Ramaretty when I ask about the peculiar nomenclature on Réunion [...]
Rėunion Island – Land of Spice and Coffee, And Cultural Overlap sunset Reunion 700 km from Madagascar, Réunion Island, land of spice and coffee (formerly Île de Bourbon) a French outpost, is a small volcanic mass in the Indian Ocean. Réunion displays a mixed Asian and African heritage, while maintaining a distinctly French [...]
Visitor's Guide to Knysna - The Garden Route view of heads Everyone coos over the Garden Route - with good reason too. If you're visiting, here's my visitor's guide to Knysna. Even repeat visitors may find something new to enjoy here. Having its origins in the Khoi language, Knysna is said to mean [...]
