South Africa Travel News

In late 2006, documentary filmmaker Rachel Boynton was trekking through the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria, and gaining zero traction with masked militants who were regularly blowing up pipelines to disrupt the global economy and protest the official corruption and income disparity arising from the exploitation of their nation's ... (more)

Sights along the 1,300 kilometres of track include Matjiesfontein, where a man offered rides on a double-decker bus, and Kimberley, where the diamond industry got its start in 'the Big Hole.'

Jennifer Aniston is up against a lot when it comes to what the public thinks about her personal life - and that's an opinion from an expert.

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn made official the establishment of new entities touted to be instrumental in transforming Ethiopia's tourism industry.

Boulders Beach, part of the Table Mountain National Park, is basically a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated.

The 2004 Grand Blanc High School graduate recently led a group of 28 women on a climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Boris Kachka of New York Magazine reports on newly released book titles and the world of publishing in The Book Reader.

Street magic is all the rage. Find out why Dan White is the talk of the town on the Travel Channel.

A controversial religious leader from Zimbabwe is once again in the headlines, this time for suing a sports company that published a report claiming he had predicted the English team Liverpool would win the Premiership title this season.

Ancient and mysterious arts survive in a land racked by turmoil. But visitors are now returning to visit the mysterious dark continent.

Sharon Hill, geologist, skeptic, and Sounds Sciencey columnist, has given the boot to the claims that prehistoric survivors are still roaming around causing cryptozoologists to get all excited.

This undated handout photo provided by South Africa s Handspring Puppet Company shows an exhibit of puppet designs for the Kennedy Center.

Mountainous regions with relatively cold climates that are unsuitable for the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes that transmit - but there have been indications, for example from modelling studies, that with climate change this protection will wear off .

What's better than the privilege of traveling on one of the world's most lavish trains? Receiving a complimentary hotel night at a stunning hotel to add onto your journey, that's what.

Just six months into his job as head of the corruption-busting Special Investigation Unit , Durban advocate Vas Soni is facing a countrywide revolt by staff who accuse him of closing investigations and running the unit like a "spaza shop".

Wave 7, described as the world's largest and longest-running survey representing more than 1 billion active internet users, has been released.

Len Webber says he is hopeful that his decision to leave the Tory party and sit as an independent will inspire others to do the same "to have the premier gone."

Motorized Intervention Brigade in Ebolowa have left the South Regional capital of Ebolowa for Yaounde to begin formalities leading to their peacekeeping mission in the Republic of Central Africa.

Years before Paul Simon found success mixing South African Zulu music with Western folk, British-born singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg was innovating a similar sound.

Travis FrugA©, who has worked and traveled extensively in Africa, has initiated a Kickstarter campaign for Knoxville-based Noble Traders, a business that will be importing djembes from artists in West Africa.