South Africa Travel News

It was a Friday night in Jo'burg's city centre; a chilly autumn evening. What could have been a regular few-blocks walk between Market and Loveday streets turned into something extraordinary.

The Crocodiles are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to clinch a famous win over the Black Stars on June 14 and have thus set up a friendly with Bafana Bafana on June 2. The friendly is expected to fine tune Lesotho's preparations by giving them a competitive edge before facing Ghana two weeks later.

The 2013 Solal Marketing Awards, which reward excellence in shopping centre marketing campaigns, include six awards to South African campaigns.

8pm. Free. Tel: 021 488 2555. lMusic Alla Kaap featuring Percy Sledge, PJ Powers, The Rockets , The Boyz and Zayn Adam at GrandWest Casino tonight and tomorrow.

The desert locust , the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching across 50 countries from west Africa to India.

Author Paul Theroux, known for such travel classics as The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar, and Dark Star Safari, has spent a lifetime famously chronicling his travels to some of the farthest Author Paul Theroux, known for such travel classics as The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar , and Dark Star Safari , has ... (more)

Blitz Patrollie: South African films cover a wide range of genres, but generally it is the B-grade car chase or comedy scripts that seem to be preferred.

South Africa has become a full member of the European A Synchrotron Radiation Facility, a A massive light source that can "see" into any material.

On top of crossing an item off her bucket list, 20-year-old Becky Sicard is looking forward to an upcoming volunteer mission to South Africa for the help she hopes to provide those who need it most Becky Sicard's bucket list already has 86 items on it, including making a miracle happen and learning to play the acoustic guitar.

In February, Global Post profiled an interesting startup in Africa called Mobius Motors that is working to manufacture affordable cars designed specifically for Africans.

Just when you think you have heard it all when it comes to TV shows, you come across What's in a Name and discover how wrong you've been.

Cova da Moura, a poor district north-west of Lisbon, was built illegally in the late 1970s by African migrants Economic migrants from Africa have been coming to Portugal for more than 50 years but they have rarely encountered such challenging times.

Asserts the Nigerian libertarian blogger, who has been traveling throughout West Africa : " It was inspiring to see women run the security and protocols at the in Togo but one's spirit was dampened by the sight of queues for the rest room and the fact that tissues were rationed to users.

Southampton football coach Chris Harding is gearing up for adventure of a lifetime when he will cycle more than 11,000 miles from Southampton to Lesotho to raise money for the Saints Foundation and Kick For Life charity which uses football to help disadvantaged children.

We were out at Tongg's surf break when the world's best-traveled writer paddled past in a kayak.

Music collective Weird Together were inspired by the travelling that DJ and man about town Nick Dwyer did as part of his music documentary series, Making Tracks .

Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, inaugural flight today touched down in Abha, Saudi Arabia, from its primary hub in Sharjah.

A baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

She just enjoys making other people happy, and Bridgewater resident, and recent Virgina Tech graduate, Valerie Hengemuhle is continuing to do that with her work overseas to help underprivileged youths attend school.

France will invest about 20 million euros to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya was targeted by a car bomb in April, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.