#south-africa-arrival

#south-africa-arrival

Ghana is home to me - it's where I grew up, from the age of four until I returned to England for university - but its contrasts always surprise me. Below, waves crash violently into jutting rocks, but those rocks also form a protective circle, creating a pool calm enough for a child to play in.

Supporters of renaming Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe argue that it is a necessary step in transforming South Africa away from its colonial past and white-minority rule.

The inaugural edition is organized around the central theme "Shifting the Center: From Fragility to Resilience," reclaiming African architecture's place as a site of spatial intelligence and cultural memory.

This, for me, is the magic of Japandi design. It's low-profile and humble, yet utterly absorbing. I feel faintly meditative each time I return to the apartment, which, after a day immersed in the melting pot of Cape Tonian nature, sport and hospitality, becomes a welcome, sanctuary-like moment of recuperation.

In Botswana, players are dealt nearly all cards from a 30-card Animal Deck. There are five total species of animals, numbered from 0 to 5. A player's turn is dead simple: play a card from their hand, and take an Animal Meeple. The card played determines the score for that animal species at the end of the game, and which Animal Meeple is chosen gives that player a chance to score that animal.

Africa is home to 39 countries that claim a coastline, giving travelers plenty of beaches to choose from. You'll find everything from palm-studded postcard perfection in Mozambique to rugged cliffs that sank many a ship attempting to cross South African seas during early colonization expeditions.

Whether it's day or whether it's night, they're shooting somewhere on the Cape Flats. Around him, residents made their way to a home-grown tuck shop, known as a spaza, or sat on street corners while toddlers ran about. How is this conducive to raising children? he asked, recounting the horrors of life in Mitchells Plain.

Players of Relooted become South African sports scientist and parkour expert Nomali, as she leaps and dives through museums to retrieve 70 real objects. They include an Asante gold mask that was taken by the British army when it destroyed the Asante empire's capital, Kumasi, and is now in the Wallace Collection in London. Another object is the skull of the Tanzanian king Mangi Meli, which was taken to Germany after its colonial regime executed him in 1900.

Like it's the case with the other parts of the world; in South Africa too, teardrop campers are becoming adventurous but with a very contemporary approach and a high-ticket price. TrailPod, an outdoor adventure brand in Cape Town, is doing things differently to keep their generation of teardrop rigs closer to the good old past, while integrating features that make it completely modern and dependable.

Rachel John, the 25-year-old influencer rumoured to be dating Springboks captain Siya Kolisi, visited the Empire State Building in New York. Is the pair still on "baecation?" SIYA KOLISI AND RACHEL JOHN IN NEW YORK? Rachel John and Siya Kolisi are both in New York, following their visit to Los Angeles, where they attended the NBA All Star weekend. Taking to TikTok, Rachel shared a video of her, from the top of the Empire State Building in New York, hinting she was there with Siya.

Local South African distributor Filmfinity said Wednesday that plans to premiere "Melania" as part of a coordinated worldwide release were officially called off, according to The New York Times (NYT). "Based on recent developments, we've taken the decision to not go ahead with a theatrical release in [the] territory," head of sales and marketing Thobashan Govindarajulu said in a statement. He didn't explain the reason for the decision to cancel the highly anticipated film.

The collection of buildings and rooms feel like they have been there forever. Each space and room is unique, and not in a cloying way. It's as if the hotel organically grew over time with a storied history to accompany it-inhabited by convivial ghosts you'd want to meet. Surprisingly, the Dorp was built from the ground up less than a decade ago, opening its doors in 2019.

Across this week's broader architecture news landscape, a central theme emerges around the advancement of civic architecture conceived as open, publicly engaged infrastructure, with cultural and institutional projects increasingly designed to strengthen their relationship with the city and everyday urban life. At the same time, renewed global attention turns toward Africa, where large-scale transport infrastructure and the conservation of modernist landmarks reflect interests in the region and the reassessment of the continent's architectural heritage.

Demand for safari holidays is growing, so how can you do it without harming animals, people or the landscape? Last summer, images were shared of a scene in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park - a large group of jeeps and dozens of tourists standing outside taking pictures of 'The Great Migration' and blocking wildebeests' traditional crossing point. Jeep traffic jams have also been widely reported in other parks, including Sri Lanka's Yala, known for its high density of leopards.

On a cool, rainy afternoon in the wilds of Laikipia, Kenya, I am lying in savasana, or corpse pose, beside a log fire in the pool house of Enasoit Camp. The teacher, Laura Bunting, gently intones a yoga nidra to our small, all-female group, during which I slip in and out of a hypnotic half-light state, only vaguely aware of the sound of rain on the thatched roof and the percussive efforts of a nearby woodpecker.

My wife Claire and I had arrived in Cape Town exactly one month before, and these days at Gary Freeman Safaris had been circled on our calendar for a long time. Many of Claire's core childhood memories were spent here in the Greater Kruger, a huge swath of protected land to the west of Kruger National Park. She first told me about her Uncle Gary's camp on our first date.

Cape Town tourism is a booming industry, and the Mother City needs foreign cash to operate as one of the planet's elite destinations. However, some locals are getting a little annoyed by the oversupply of digital nomads. European tourists are loving Cape Town, and why wouldn't they? When one single Euro gets you R19, an Uber to Boulders Beach to check out the penguins isn't all that pricy.