South Africa Travel Guide

Hotels close to the World Cup Stadium Durban

Peter Baxter — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:43 +0000

Durban has a huge hospitality industry thanks to its status as the South African working family’s preferred holiday destination and it’s role as the busiest port city in Africa. If you are looking for affordable hotel or lodge accommodation in the vicinity of the Moses Mabhida Stadium where the Durban matches are to be played [...]

Music in South Africa

Peter Baxter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:09:53 +0000

South Africa has always been a popular international music venue. The nation’s political history made it a fashionable focus for 80s and 90s race protest and human rights related concert themes. A more gritty and populist revival of the SA vibe came into being with the help of Paul Simon who, in his 1986 roots exploration [...]

Bloemfontein – visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:54:42 +0000

Bloemfontein, or Bloem to her friends, is the capital of the Free State Province. It is also the judicial capital of the nation and one of the quieter and more conservative cities of South Africa. Bloem is situated in the midst of the windswept grassland of the interior at an altitude of 4 500ft…perfect cheetah [...]

Port Elizabeth - visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:59:37 +0000

Port Elizabeth, or PE as it is more widely known, is South Africa’s fifth largest city and touted as the nation’s watersport capital. It enjoys a singular advantage over Cape Town in this regard. The city is situated on the Indian Ocean and not the Atlantic, nor the turbulent merger of the two which tends [...]

Johannesburg - visiting tips for the world cup

Peter Baxter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0000

Johannesburg, or Joburg as she is better known, is a large cosmopolitan city like no other in Africa. The site was originally a farmstead that erupted into rapid growth upon the discovery of vast gold deposits in the adjacent Witwatersrand in 1886. Joburg remained for a long time a goldrush town, and some would say [...]

Durban - visiting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:25 +0000

While the city of Pietermartitzburg is the provincial capital of KwaZulu/Natal, Durban is the main port city and the de facto economic capital. It is also one of the liveliest and most atmospheric of all South African cities, with a little less of the deep history that characterizes Cape Town but with no less cosmopolitan [...]

Cape Town - visting tips for the World Cup

Peter Baxter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:37:20 +0000

Of all the towns and cities in South Africa Cape Town is perhaps the one with the most to offer a casual visitor. The city of Cape Town is one of the oldest established municipalities in southern Africa. Only the earliest administrative settlements in Mozambique such as Ille de Moçambique, Inhambane and Maputo predate the [...]

Getting Between Johannesburg and Rustenburg

Peter Baxter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:39:29 +0000

Rustenburg in is the direction of one of the preferred weekend getaways for residents of Johannesburg and Pretoria. The main attraction for many is the Lost City and Sun City leisure and casino resorts situated just outside Rustenburg, but also a collection of wilderness preserves and wildlife parks add to the attraction. Rustenburg is also [...]

Getting between Johannesburg and Polokwane

Peter Baxter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:19:24 +0000

The N1 highway north is one of the main transit routes between South Africa and her northern neighbors. It ends at the Zimbabwean border. It is a busy route that runs through a swathe of largely unattractive territory that offers very little for the road touring enthusiast. Polokwane itself, although capital of Limpopo Province, is [...]

Getting between Durban and Nelspruit

Peter Baxter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:26:16 +0000

This route offers potentially one of the most worthwhile overland transits between any two points in South Africa. It is possible to drive either around the southwest rump of Swaziland, or through Swaziland itself, with both routes offering access to northern KwaZulu/Natal, the famed Valley of a Thousand Hills, and the wild reaches of [...]