An aquired taste
As we enter the pressing room, we are enveloped by a smell so potent it is almost a taste, seemingly bypassing the nasal passages and assaulting the soft palate directly. This is the bouquet of the nascent wines of Stellekaya winery, red in tooth and claw...

Soccer in South Africa
Football - or soccer, as we call it - is the most widely played sport in South Africa, with its traditional support base in the black community...

The field of dreams
As South Africa’s home side, Bafana Bafana (“The Boys”) has yet to truly earn its spurs in the international arena, soccer is perhaps less readily associated with the country...

Words for our Freedom Song
Jethro Louw lives in a township. And he is a poet. He is the ghetto poet, largely considered to be the godfather of spoken word in Cape Town. And alongside poets such as Lesego Rampolokeng, ...

Jazz up an evening by grooving to that Goema beat
A Russian gramophone plays a pennywhistle jive tune, Little Lemmy and Big Joe, recorded in South Africa in the 1940’s. We’re huddled round the gramophone at cosy Dudu’s in Loop Street...

Giving tourists the authentic
SA experience
Capetonian Monique Le Roux couldn’t have been further from home when she came up with an idea to show the real South Africa to visitors; not just the pretty sight but the real immerse - yourself - and - get - your - hands - dirty experience...

Cape Town - a whole world in one city
At the south-western tip of Africa, cradled between the warm Indian Ocean on the east coast and the cold Atlantic Ocean on the west, lies Cape Town – "Mother City" of South Africa. Cape Town is a cosmopolitan city...

One Jazz Riff After Another in Cape Town
Cape Town is just a brief stopover on their way to stalk lions. Staying just long enough to hike up Table Mountain, they decamp to Kruger National Park or other South African game reserves to get up close and personal with the Big Five. Mac McKenzie, known as the King of Goema, the name for Cape Town music, plays during a stop on a jazz tour of the city...


Experience the Cape Malay Quarter
For the authentic feel of the Bo-Kaap, culminating in a hands-on cooking session, join an enriching tour, led by Monique le Roux of Andulela Experience (a Xhosa word meaning "first"or "to be the first"). In this case, the first cross-cultural experience for visitors...

Cape Town – the Jazzin' of the Seven Seas
Cape Town is a musical city. There are twenty guitar players per square kilometre joke some people, and saxophonists behind every bush. Music is our holy communion. Cape Town is a carnival city ...

Potted history
When the indigenous people at the tip of Africa proved averse to house training, the early Dutch settlers imported slaves – a practice that continued till 1807. They were generally Muslim (the Dutch had colonised the East Indies, where the Islamic faith...