by Henri Steenkamp | Jan 26, 2017 | Culture, South Africa
The Rainbow Nation. Coined by Desmond Tutu immediately after the first open, fair elections that the nation had seen, the nickname quickly came to encompass the myriad peoples and cultures of South Africa, from black to white and everyone in between. The moniker...
by Henri Steenkamp | Dec 7, 2016 | Culture, Environment, South Africa, Travel
Cape of Good Hope For centuries, before the construction of the Suez Canal linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean (and by extension, East and West), the only way for European ships to reach Asia (and vice versa) was to sail around the tumultuous Cape of Good Hope....