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Cape Town is a city made for walking
Cape Town’s scenic beauty is legendary. It is regularly featured among the most beautiful cities in the world, with pictures showing it nestling at the foot of majestic Table Mountain. The southeasterly
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politics
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This quirky thing they call *the vote*
I have rarely found myself thinking more deeply about the concept of democratic election and what exactly it is that a vote means. In my own country, South Africa, the trade unions, with support from the
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nature
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Dancing wildly in the Mafia's old forecourt
There we were, joining young people in a wild dance in the forecourt of the old Mafia villa near Naples. It was weird to know that right there in that same place some people might have had less happy
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photography
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Snapshots of South Africa’s Natural Beauty
South Africa counts among the world’s most biodiverse countries, after Brazil and Indonesia. Its scenic beauty must surely put it right up there with the best as well. These are just a few randomly selected
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Straddling the Mountain Dragon
The road curving up the Drakensberg is scenic but treacherous. It is why adventure travellers call it The Mother of South African Passes. The 19 kilometre stretch of road is named Sani Pass and takes traffic
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tourism
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Garden town rises like a Phoenix from the ashes
Knysna is one of the prettiest towns on South Africa’s Garden Route, which runs along part of the country’s South Coast. But it was a sad picture that met me when I arrived there a while back. I haven’t
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Riding the Tail of the Dragon
There I was riding the Tail of the Dragon and I had no idea I was doing so. The section of forest road high up the Appalachians where I entered the 2 400-kilometre-long mountain range in North Carolina
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There is beauty and sadness in the haunting eyes of a Cheetah
Look into a cheetah’s eyes and somehow the sensation sticks. There is a haunting beauty there, as there is something old and sad. It is an experience not easily forgotten. This is the world’s fastest land
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The grand old abbey that stands lonesome watch over the plains of Italy’s Piedmont
Staffarda Abbey stands there all by its lonesome self on the plain of Italy’s Piedmont. It is almost as if the grand old building, now nearly eight centuries old, got left behind by time as it continued
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Yellowstone hisses and puffs like an Earthern beast and blows your mind away
Dusk was falling when we entered Yellowstone National Park. The crescent moon hanging just above the outline of the western mountains added to our expectation. It is very much for reason of Earth’s heaving
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politics
8y
Might the stars tell us what’s going on around the world
Looking back on 2016 and wondering what 2017 had in store, I thought that had I been an astrologer I would have been hard put right now trying to figure out what the stars are up to up there. Radical changes
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Now for a walk under Dubai’s desert sky.
Walking under the desert sky is fast becoming a favourite activity in Dubai. The trend has come with the appearance of some excellent walkways in various parts of town. This is a sea change for the desert
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The elephant king who stole hearts
The old elephant bull was a sight to behold. So impressive he was that he got crowned king on two counts. Hail to the king. The first was his regal bearing that already in his prime earned him the name
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Clothes maketh the traveller
Travel and weather are close associates. Ask anybody about their holiday and the answer will most likely be the weather was fantastic or terrible, or some such. That says whether it was a success or not.
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See glitzy Dubai for the over-the-top modernistic city it is.
There comes a point on visiting Dubai when one stops staring after every Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati roaring past and every Bentley and Rolls Royce gliding regally by. With the Bugatti parked at the
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The Italian castle that whispers of pride, glory, pain and hardship.
If castles could talk, La Castiglia overlooking the picturesque north-western Italian town of Saluzzo would have had remarkable tales to tell. Some would be about pride and glory, others about pain and
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The Italian village that clings to its rock perch for dear life
The ancient little village seems as if it could at any moment tumble from the high rock on which it is perched in the middle of an enormous gorge. It is indeed what has over the ages happened to many a
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Mamma Mia! The joys and perils of driving in Italy.
My knuckles were white on the steering wheel and my foot pressed down so hard on the accelerator I feared I might crash it through the floorboard of my little rented car. I had till moments before kept
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photography
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I saw a good moon rising …
Businesses and media outlets in Dubai suggested a range of places for best sightings of last night’s super moon: From the roofs of hotels, from some of the many tall buildings, from luxury boats out to
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The beauty and the sadness about our rhinos
Rhinos are fabulous creatures to watch, and nowhere more so than in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi. It is in this beautiful reserve in South Africa’s garden province of Kwazulu-Natal that the iconic species got pulled
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