South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa declared 15 December as a public holiday to celebrate the country’s Rugby World Cup victory. Mr Ramaphosa said the December date was chosen for the holiday as ...

Next morning I begin making the rounds, schedule interviews with a well-known activist who’s teaching at University of Witwatersrand (he has since been detained), with Brendon Berry, president of the ...

According to hotel chain corporation Marriott Bonvoy, the global travel industry is set to grow come 2025 after years of COVID-induced recovery. In South Africa, specifically, over 60 percent of ...

Nearly seven in ten South Africans plan to take the same or more holidays in 2026, with younger travellers leading the way in adopting AI tools, booking luxury add-ons, and pursuing passion-driven ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers. Then the lights go out. The shops are pitch dark. “Hold on to your ...

Visa has announced its first Retail Spend Monitor, from Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA), which analyzes holiday season retail spend for the seven-week period starting on 1 November 2024. The ...

You don’t need a map or a road sign to know when you enter a homeland, it’s where the shit land begins. The road to Transkei runs next to the Indian Ocean for the first 100 kilometers south of Durban, ...