by Henri Steenkamp | Mar 5, 2018 | South Africa
In Russell Peters’ latest project, a Canadian-produced TV series titled Indian Detective, the Indian-Canadian comic plays a grandiose, ne’er-do-well, and utterly hilarious Indian-Canadian constable named Doug D’Mello. After Doug takes a sabbatical following a flawed...
by Henri Steenkamp | Nov 21, 2017 | South Africa
In 1986, the United States sanctioned South Africa. This was some 40 years after the beginning of apartheid, the government-sanctioned policy of separating citizens into different facilities, schools, and institutions based solely on race. Today, three decades later,...
by Henri Steenkamp | Oct 25, 2017 | Sports
You’ve scoured the land and sailed the seas, and now the sky’s the only limit left. There are few experiences to better get your adrenaline pumping than soaring through the open air, and the SA adventure scene has plenty of ways to feed that need. Whipping through the...
by Henri Steenkamp | May 17, 2017 | South Africa, Sports
If you’re a new rugby fan, entranced by the spectacle that characterizes the sport, you must watch Super Rugby. What is Super Rugby? To put it simply, Super Rugby is the top transnational league for the Southern Hemisphere (and, recently, Japan). In a sense, it’s not...
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...