Port Elizabeth

On a boat cruise around the Bird Island Group, protected by South African National Parks, you’ll see African penguins, Cape gannets, whales, sharks and dolphins.

The Bridge Street Micro Brewery in Port Elizabeth is a brewery and restaurant with its own signature beers and ciders.

South Africa was never a Portuguese colony but, in recent decades, Afro-Lusitanian food has become very popular in restaurants around the country.

South Africa is a surfer’s paradise, and whether you’re a novice or an old pro, the different conditions of the West Coast, Garden Route, Wild Coast and KwaZulu-Natal offers something for everyone.

The AmaXhosa are part of three nations known as Nguni that are found in South Africa. The other two are AmaSwazi and AmaZulu.  The AmaXhosa settled in the Eastern Cape and over time spread to the Western Cape.

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.

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.

It has earned a nickname as a Friendly City, owing to the generally hospitable nature of the inhabitants and a welcoming endowment of natural and social heritage.