Bloemfontein

Spend some time enjoying the offerings of Bloemfontein before looping off onto the N5 and visiting the Free State’s sandstone settlements. Don’t miss Clarens, regarded by many as the jewel of this scenic province.

South Africa has a prolific theatre scene with more than 100 active performance spaces around the country. These spaces, often situated in historical South African buildings, offer everything from indigenous drama, music, dance, cabaret and satire to West End and Broadway hits, classical opera and ballet.

A honeymoon in the Free State can include majestic mountains, national parks, a world heritage site, dams, hot-air ballooning and rock climbing.

Franklin Game Reserve lies completely within the city of Bloemfontein in Free State province – a haven of natural beauty and wildlife in the heart of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality.

Xhosa cuisine: the dishes and traditions

African ancestors continue to give Africans a shared and personal sense of self-affirmation, identity and unfettered belonging.

Zulu cuisine is still very much influenced by tradition and its celebration of history and a commitment to culture.

It’s often worth it leaving behind the big lights and taking a road tip to explore small-town cuisine, or even making a trip of it and spending a night or two and exploring what else is on offer.

The food story of South Africa.

As a nation that boasts about its rich culture, the Basotho can trace their origins to the pre-historic age.

The Ndebele of South Africa constitute one group of people whose identity has survived precarious conditions and existential crisis under the weight of changing power dynamics of internal and external factors from pre-colonial to present times.

Mining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa’s first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867.