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CEO’s note

Publisher’s note

Digital news

Business trends

Journey Home really is where the heart is

Up in the air with‌ Rosie Motene, former soapie star turned businesswoman and social activist

SAA’s 80th birthday Eight decades of ying excellence

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Passengers in passing Bringing the world to Africa and Africa to the world

Travel talk Hotels, happenings and holiday options worth noting

Events Around SA, Africa and the globe

Vietnam From war-ravaged wasteland to powerhouse of commerce and culture

Singapore Must-see landmarks in one of the Malay Peninsula’s most exotic gems

Gaborone Spend a day or two in Botswana’s capital

Hotspots Truly romantic Valentine’s destinations

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Motorcycling Three bikers share the pain and the passion of the open road

Gallery Photographer Gary Hirson captures the distinctive energy of Cape Town’s train lines

Behind the scenes An acrophobiac learns the ropes about Table Mountain’s cable car

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Culture Theatre, dance and entertainment

Music The voice and vibe of Africa

Business Making inner changes for lasting success

Cuisine The taste of home: Reviving SA’s township food

Motivation Creating a winning mindset

Food and drink Wines, whiskies and novelties

Sustainability Will SA’s winelands weather climatic changes?

Health Beating back and neck pain

Industry Finding realistic solutions for the subcontinent’s mining problems

Sport Cycling, cricket and rugby

Technology Best business gadgets

Motoring The Toyota Land Cruiser Prado

Books This month’s top reads

Brain-teasers Crossword, Word Spiral and Sudoku

Parting shot Wild things

Property Essential information for aspirant landlords

Lifestyle Fabulous ďŹ nishing touches for maximum impact

Style Fashion ďŹ nds from Africa, grooming and desirable objects

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THIS MONTH HOLDS SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR US, AS WE’VE JUST TURNED A VERY ACTIVE, YOUNG-AT-HEART 80. Our eight-decade history is closely intertwined with that of our country and we join hands with our fellow South Africans as the country celebrates 20 years of democracy. Furthermore, our frequent yer programme, Voyager, which was one of the ďŹ rst such programmes in Africa, also turns 20 this month, while Mango, our low-cost operator, turns eight later in the year. These birthdays will ensure a festive mood for the year ahead. In support of our country’s important milestone, we’ll join other state-owned enterprises with an internal campaign, titled “Where Were You in 1994?â€?, aimed at encouraging employees to relate stories of how the birth of democracy changed their lives. Join us as we combine these celebratory events in an 80/20 Campaign in which you, our valued customers, can participate. Be on the lookout for our “A Part of You for 80 Yearsâ€? marketing campaign, where we’ll be creating r messages around different elements of ying and aircraft parts. Celebrate with us and share your experience of exceptional customer service. This will give you the chance to win a special prize, for yourself and the staff member. While we celebrate our proud history as an airline and a country, our focus going forward is on embracing the promise of a better tomorrow. At the airline we remain focused on achieving the strategic objectives set out in Gaining Altitude, our Long-Term Turnaround Strategy. We remain committed to working side by side with you, our customers, as well as our aviation and airline partners, towards our vision of becoming Africa’s leading world-class airline. As the year unfolds, we’ll continue our efforts to improve your ying experience. Some elements you can already look forward to are the increased frequencies on our routes to Kinshasa (DRC) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). As from this month, we’re also increasing frequencies to Windhoek (Namibia), Ndola (Zambia) and Lusaka (Zambia), some of our most popular African routes. We’re all looking forward to the complete makeover of our domestic lounge at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, which promises to delight you. SAA intends gracing the skies – and welcoming you on board – for many decades to come.

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IT’S A TIME OF REINVENTION IN OUR COUNTRY, AS WE EMBARK ON LIFE AS A NATION which is independent not only constitutionally, but also – sadly – without the embracing presence of our beloved former President Nelson Mandela, who was for almost all South Africans a father ďŹ gure, even in the years after he left ofďŹ ce. While it’s always frightening ďŹ nding one’s wings for a ďŹ rst ight away from the security of a familiar nest, it’s also exciting. This is the time when the great moral lessons taught to us by Madiba need to be implemented – and with an election coming up in just a few weeks, the winning party will have to demonstrate how well it has learnt them. Our feature on SA’s mining industry spells out the dynamic powerhouse our country has become and the great potential it has to take itself, as well as other countries in the subcontinent, into an era of abundance. February is also the month of romance – and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate love than in an exotic setting like Vietnam, a country which also knows a lot about reinvention, having thrown off the shadows of its war-torn past and become a destination with a great deal to offer tourists. Our feature on this hauntingly beautiful part of South-East Asia showcases its many scenic and cultural riches. Or consider seductive, scintillating Singapore. Closer to home, why not take a trip across the border to soak up the sun on one of Mozambique’s beautiful beaches? Or explore some of the less commercial areas on your own doorstep. We love the Cederberg for its magniďŹ cent rock formations, beautiful skies and the absolute peace and quiet. For the more adventurous, take a road trip (on a motorcycle, if you have the stamina!) – it will undoubtedly be an excursion to remember. Wherever you choose to spend Valentine’s Day, make it one that acknowledges love far beyond commercialism. Red roses, heart-shaped chocolate boxes and sweet nothings are well and good, but that special person in your life also needs to know how much they mean to you throughout the other 364 days of the year. If we reinforce that message to our nearest and dearest, we’ll have done much to make the world a beautiful place. Enjoy this issue and – wherever you’re headed – bon voyage!

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Publisher Khanyi Dhlomo Editor Ingrid Wood Group Business Director Elaine Chandler Executive Assistant: CEO Marinda Brink FEATURES Group Executive Editor Fiona Davern Features Editor Jabulile Ngwenya Editorial Assistant Vuyokazi Mnyengeza

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GARY HIRSON, photographer and writer (The Other Side of the Tracks (p88) and A Mountainous Task (p94)), who loves to inspire young people

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EDITORIAL Group Copy Editor Gwen Podbrey Copy Editor Nicola Popplewell Production Assistant Candice Pretorius

Clockwise, from top left: Cara Bouwer. Gary Hirson. Nazley Omar.

Šƒ”‡ ›‘—” Œ‘—”Â?‡› ™‹–Š —• Banele Benjamin Bennett captured his journey on Facebook: “On 16-17 November 2013 I ew from Hong Kong to OR Tambo International... what a lovely ight I had, with good hospitality. Much appreciated!â€?

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┬Ш┬З┬Р ┬Л┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З┬Х┬З ┬Е┬С┬Р┬Ж┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Х ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬О┬С┬Е┬Г┬О┬Л┬Х┬З┬Ж╟б ┬Ц┬К┬З┬Л┬Ф ┬Й┬Ф┬С┬Щ┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬И┬Ф┬З┬У┬Ч┬З┬Р┬Е┬Ы ┬Л┬Х ┬Р┬С┬Ц┬Л┬Е┬З┬Г┬Д┬О┬З╟д ┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬З┬Х ┬О┬Л┬Н┬З ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬К┬Л┬О┬Л┬Т┬Т┬Л┬Р┬З┬Х ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬Г┬Е┬Е┬Ч┬Х┬Ц┬С┬П┬З┬Ж ┬Ц┬С ┬Ж┬З┬Г┬О┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Ц┬Ы┬Т┬К┬С┬С┬Р┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬З┬Г┬Ф┬Ц┬К┬У┬Ч┬Г┬Н┬З┬Х╟б ┬Д┬Ч┬Ц ┬Р┬С┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Т┬Ф┬З┬Т┬Г┬Ф┬З┬Ж ┬Ц┬К┬З┬П ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Щ┬Ф┬Г┬Ц┬К ┬С┬И ┬Г┬Л┬Ы┬Г┬Р╟д ┬З┬Ш┬Г┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р ┬С┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Х ┬Х┬Е┬Г┬О┬З ┬Ж┬З┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬С┬Ы┬Х ┬Г┬О┬О ┬Л┬Р┬И┬Ф┬Г┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Ч┬Е┬Ц┬Ч┬Ф┬З╟б ┬Л┬Р┬Е┬О┬Ч┬Ж┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬З┬Х┬Х┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Л┬Г┬О ┬Е┬С┬П┬П┬Ч┬Р┬Л┬Е┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р ┬Х┬Ы┬Х┬Ц┬З┬П┬Х╟б ┬К┬Г┬П┬Т┬З┬Ф┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Е┬Ф┬Ч┬Е┬Л┬Г┬О ┬Х┬З┬Г┬Ф┬Е┬К ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Ф┬З┬Х┬Е┬Ч┬З ┬С┬Т┬З┬Ф┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Х╟д ┬К┬З ┬К┬Ч┬П┬Г┬Р ┬Е┬С┬Х┬Ц ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З┬Х┬З ┬Р┬Г┬Ц┬Ч┬Ф┬Г┬О ┬Ж┬Л┬Х┬Г┬Х┬Ц┬З┬Ф┬Х ┬Л┬Х ┬С┬Д┬Ш┬Л┬С┬Ч┬Х╟б ┬Д┬Ч┬Ц ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬Е┬С┬Р┬С┬П┬Л┬Е ┬Ф┬Л┬Т┬Т┬О┬З ┬З╞б┬З┬Е┬Ц ┬Л┬Х ┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ф┬Ц┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Ц┬С ┬Ф┬З┬Й┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬З┬Ф ┬Р┬С┬Ц ┬С┬Р┬О┬Ы ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Й┬С┬Ш┬З┬Ф┬Р┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Х╟б ┬Д┬Ч┬Ц ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬П┬Ч┬О┬Ц┬Л╟ж┬Р┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Г┬О ┬Е┬С┬П┬Т┬Г┬Р┬Л┬З┬Х╟г ┬Х┬С ┬П┬Ч┬Е┬К ┬Х┬С ┬Ц┬К┬Г┬Ц ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Х┬Л┬Г┬Р ┬З┬Ш┬З┬О┬С┬Т┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц ┬Г┬Р┬Н ╚Л ╚М ┬Е┬С┬П┬П┬Л┬Х┬Х┬Л┬С┬Р┬З┬Ж ┬Г ┬Х┬Т┬З┬Е┬Л┬Г┬О ┬Х┬Ц┬Ч┬Ж┬Ы ┬Ц┬С ┬З┬Ш┬Г┬О┬Ч┬Г┬Ц┬З ┬Л┬Ц┬Х ┬Т┬С┬О┬Л┬Е┬Ы ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Ф┬З┬Х┬Т┬С┬Р┬Х┬З ┬Ц┬С ┬Х┬Ч┬Е┬К ┬Ф┬Л┬Х┬Н┬Х╟д ┬К┬З ╞д┬Р┬Ж┬Л┬Р┬Й┬Х ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬Ш┬Г┬О┬Ч┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р ┬Щ┬З┬Ф┬З ┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ф┬Ц┬О┬Л┬Р┬Й╟д ╟▓ ┬С┬Ч┬Ф ┬С┬И ╞д┬Ш┬З ┬Е┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬З┬Х ┬Е┬О┬Г┬Х┬Х┬Л╞д┬З┬Ж ┬Г┬Х ┬З┬Ъ┬Ц┬Ф┬З┬П┬З ┬Ф┬Л┬Х┬Н┬Х ┬Г┬П┬С┬Р┬Й ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Щ┬С┬Ф┬О┬Ж╟п┬Х ┬И┬Г┬Х┬Ц┬З┬Х┬Ц╟ж┬Й┬Ф┬С┬Щ┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Ч┬Ф┬Д┬Г┬Р ┬Г┬Ф┬З┬Г┬Х ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬Л┬Р ┬Х┬Л┬Г╟д ┬К┬З ┬Ф┬З┬Й┬Л┬С┬Р ┬Г┬Е┬Е┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ц┬Х ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬К┬Г┬О┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬Х┬Ц┬Л┬П┬Г┬Ц┬З┬Ж

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South African Airways (SAA), the national flagcarrier and largest airline of SA, took to the skies on 1 February 1934 after the South African government took over the assets and liabilities of Union Airways, which had been flying mainly airmail from the harbour cities since 1929. The airline, which was then named South African Airways (SAA), stayed under government control, initially under the auspices of the South African Railways & Harbours administration, later moving into the Transnet portfolio. In 1999 the airline entered a new era of corporatisation and was renamed South African Airways (Pty) Ltd. During the airline’s now almost 80 historical years, a share in it was only once sold off to another airline, when in 1999 the SAirGroup, the parent of Swissair, acquired a 20% stake in SAA from Transnet – only to buy it back two years later, with Swissair battling to stay afloat. The airline entered a new era of independence in 2006, when it split from Transnet, its parent company, to operate as an independent airline.

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days and overnight stops had to be made each day. At the end of 1946, the first of two De Havilland Dove aircraft entered service. They were used to operate a feeder service and for crew training. However, they weren’t suited to SAA’s operation and both were finally sold in the early 1950s. During the Fifties, the next aircraft type introduced was the Vickers Viking, a 28-seater airliner used on both internal and regional services, which exited the fleet soon thereafter in 1951. Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft entered service on the Johannesburg-Cape Town route. New De Havilland Comets, the first passenger jet aircraft in the world, were introduced to the fleet in the early Fifties, with the first service operated from London to Johannesburg. Douglas DC7B aircraft were used on the Springbok Service, the ultimate in

pre-jet era aviation and the fastest piston-engine airliner in the world. A boost for internal and regional services was the introduction of Vickers Viscount turbo-prop aircraft, soon proving extremely popular among passengers. The aircraft was fitted with large oval windows that afforded an excellent view. The turbine engines were vibration-free and the aircraft was very reliable and profitable. Four Lockheed Constellations with pressurised cabins which enabled them to fly higher, thus avoiding most storms, were introduced in 1950. They had space for 50 passengers and travelling time between SA and Britain was further reduced to 28 hours. The next major change took place in the Sixties at the start of the jet age, when Boeing 707’s and 727’s intercontinental jet aircraft entered the fleet, heralding new dimensions of speed, range and comfort, and more than 150 passengers could be carried on a single aircraft. The 707 also brought in the new airline colours, with the main difference being the new orange tail with a blue and white flash. It now took 21 hours from Seattle to Johannesburg. Boeing 737s were introduced to supplement the 727 fleet. By

1967, old stalwarts such as the Skymasters, Constellations and DC-7Bs were retired. As sanctions were eased, SAA was permitted to fly over the east coast of Africa. In the Seventies, the airline began taking delivery of Airbus A320 aircraft for use on the internal and regional services.

Hawker Siddeley 748 turbo-prop aircraft replaced the Dakotas from 1970 and the last Dakota left SAA in February 1971. Boeing 747SP aircraft were introduced in 1976 and to demonstrate its very longrange capability, the first aircraft was flown non-stop from the Boeing Company factory in Seattle to Cape Town during its delivery flight. In the years to follow Airbus aircraft were bought; the 300 series took off with the A300-B2K, specially designed for conditions in Johannesburg. The Nineties: The first of eight Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets arrived in January 1991 and, with increased fuel capacity, gave the aircraft greater range to fly nonstop from the East Coast of the USA to SA. B747-300 aircraft were introduced that entered service commercially on the airline’s Johannesburg-London route. By the end of the decade, SAA operated a fleet of 36 aircraft comprising 11 Boeing 747s, nine Boeing 727s, three Boeing 707s, six Boeing 737s, four Airbus A300s and three Hawker Siddeley 748 airliners.

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With the dawn of a new millennium, fairly rapid growth was experienced, particularly on services to Africa and the delivery in 2000 of the first new-generation Boeing 737-800s for Domestic and Regional operations, to replace the Airbus A300 and A320s. This move capitalised on the opportunities offered by new technology in the ecommerce arena, such as relaunching its website, www.flysaa.com, and upgrading its reservation check-in and departure control systems.

In 2002 the airline implemented an extensive fleet renewal programme, with an all-Airbus fleet the intention. An order was placed for 41 new aircraft with a list price of US$3,5 billion. Airbus 340-600 aircraft were set to replace both the B747 Classic and B767 aircraft. Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft would replace the Boeing 737s and later 737-800 airliners. The first of nine Airbus A340600s was delivered in January 2003 and to speed up the reequipment, A330 and A340-200

aircraft were leased from European operators. The first A340-600 service was operated to Hong Kong in February 2003, replacing the B747 Classic on the route. In 2003 SAA received one of an eventual five leased A340-200s. As more Airbus aircraft arrived, the old Classics were sold, returned to the leasing companies or reduced to scrap at Johannesburg International Airport in early 2004. Strategic changes followed when Transnet bought back the shareholding in SAirGroup. In

2002 SAA bought a 49% share in Air Tanzania Ltd, which was eventually declared an unsuccessful venture in 2006. Also in 2006: - SAA split from Transnet, its parent company, to operate as an independent airline. - SAA became the ďŹ rst African airline to join Star Alliance, the world’s leading airline network. - Mango Airlines SOC Ltd, known as Mango, was formed as a low-cost airline and a subsidiary of SAA.

THE THIRTIES 1 February 1934: The airline which is today known as South African Airways (SAA) is born in Durban, SA, moving the next year to Rand Airport in Johannesburg, the city to become the hub of air travel in the country. The first regional routes were opened and more routes within SA added; SAA began operating its first regional service to Lusaka, with stops at (then) Pietersburg, Bulawayo and

Livingstone. A temporary airport named Palmietfontein, south of Rand Airport, was used while the new Johannesburg airport was being built. THE FORTIES SAA’s first intercontinental service, known as the Springbok Service, started on 10 November 1945, routing Palmietfontein-NairobiKhartoum-Cairo-Castel Benito-Hurn Bournemouth (Heathrow had not

yet opened). The flight took three days to complete and overnight stops were made at Nairobi and Cairo, with flying time 33-34 hours. The new Johannesburg airport was named Jan Smuts Airport and SAA moved to Kempton Park. Air hostesses were first introduced at this time, initially flying only on the internal services. They were later also used on the Springbok Service. THE FIFTIES SAA introduced a fast one-stop service from JohannesburgKhartoum-London. THE SIXTIES The jet age began with the introduction of Boeing 707s, in a mixed First Class/Economy Class configuration carrying a total of 139 passengers. It now took 21 hours from Seattle to Johannesburg, while the flight to London took 13 hours. Most African states opposed to the previous government’s apartheid policy denied SAA flying rights over their countries, forcing the airline to take a long detour around the bulge of West Africa. The Boeing 707 inaugurated the

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service to the Americas, flying from Johannesburg-Rio de JaneiroNew York. THE SEVENTIES This was the era when the widebody Airbus joined the fleet and SAA carried a million passengers a year. Route expansions continued and SAA started flying to Hong Kong, stopping at the Seychelles. Services were upgraded with the introduction of wide-body Airbus A300s, mainly on the Cape Town and Durban routes, carrying 260 passengers in a mixed Business/ Economy Class configuration. THE EIGHTIES By now SAA carried over

3,9 million passengers on all services and celebrated 50 years in the skies on 1 February 1984. The airline was divided into an International and a Domestic leg to provide specific services geared to these markets. More innovations followed, such as the introduction of a Business Class section on domestic flights, route changes and new aircraft arriving. THE NINETIES SAA received more aircraft over this period, with the first Boeing 747-400 named Durban and the first Airbus A320 Blue Crane at the then Jan Smuts Airport. Various route changes followed such as reintroducing New York and flights

to Australia. 1997 was a landmark year for the airline, with a major overhaul and a new corporate identity. SAA introduced its new image and livery, dropping the Springbok emblem and the old national colours of orange, white and blue. The new livery was based upon the new South African national flag, with a sun motif. The airline’s name on its aircraft was changed to “South African”, with the Afrikaans name “Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens” dropped. Most importantly, SAA made big strategic changes during this time, allowing – for the first time in its history – another European airline shareholding in the company. G State-owned South African Express (SAX) entered the domestic market, with SAA a 20% shareholder. SAX supplies a feeder service for SAA and runs some of SAA’s low-density internal routes. G The airline refocused its presence on the African continent by launching a new African airline, called Alliance Air, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as a three-fold venture between SAA and the national airlines and governments of Tanzania and Uganda. G SAA signed a R1,4 billion deal giving SAirGroup, the holding company of Swissair, a 20% stake in SAA. G Voyager, the airline’s frequent flyer programme, was launched.

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thereby allowing SAA to concentrate on its core business of passenger and cargo transport; grounding SAA’s Boeing 747-400 eet; rationalising international routes (Paris was dropped altogether); and axing 30% of the airline’s managers, among other reductions. These measures were expected to save the airline R2,7 billion (US$378,2 million) and by June 2009, R2,5 billion had been saved. At the end of 2010, SAA permanently phased out the two Boeing 747-400s, which were temporarily reintroduced in late 2008. In 2011 the airline refocused on its successes. Over its long

and illustrious history, SAA has won many awards and customer experience improvements have been implemented. The airline reopened its pilot training academy and stopped direct ights between Cape Town and London, due to declining passenger numbers to the UK and increasing airport taxes in that country. Most recently, SAA was certiďŹ ed as a four-star airline for the 11th consecutive year by Skytrax, the British aviation expert, and is set to embark on a long-term turnaround strategy setting its course for the next 20 years.

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the above flights as the marketing carrier. SAA customers will therefore travel on a ticket starting with “SA” and then the flight number, while Mango customers will travel on a ticket starting with the “JE” code. Voyager members will earn miles only if they book their flights on the SAA flight number, as is the case on the Mango flights between Durban-Cape Town and Lanseria-Cape Town. “The new agreement is in line with strategic imperatives as indicated in Gaining Altitude, SAA’s Long-Term Turnaround Strategy, whereby focus

is placed on intra-group operational efficiency and commercial impetus,” says Kendy Phohleli, SAA Acting General Manager: Commercial. “Mango’s exceptional on-time performance record, its quality on-board product and growing domestic network provide a natural valuefit with SAA and its passengers.” Mango Chief Executive Officer Nico Bezuidenhout welcomes the agreement. “By adding greater network choice through collaboration, SAA passengers will benefit, while the initiative represents a giant leap forward for both brands.”

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Beautiful escapes and experiences for the discerning traveller

An R80 million renovation has seen a lot of buzz around JOHANNESBURG’S Hyatt Regency Hotel. Central to the new look is “personal connectivity”, says GM Michael McBain. With its top conference facilities, high-level tech services and proximity to the Rosebank Gautrain station, the hotel’s a key hub for business travellers. www.johannesburg.regency.hyatt.com

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From left: Casa Labia garden view and Café. Constance Tsarabanjina. The Table Bay Hotel. A Swaziland Tourism brochure.

The restored home of the Count and Countess Natale Labia was built to reflect the spirit of 18th-century Venice. The result is Casa Labia on the MUIZENBERG mile. Highly recommended for an intimate gathering is the Italian-inspired Casa Labia Café, with al fresco seating available in the courtyard and on the verandah. Look out for the special business packages. www.casalabia.co.za The Constance Tsarabanjina in MADAGASCAR has won the Barefoot Adventure Award in the 2014 UK Tatler Travel Awards. The secluded, eco-friendly resort offers elegance and luxury amid the best of nature. Here you can watch local fishermen deliver the catch of the day, go on guided nature walks and dive in virtually unexplored waters. www. tsarabanjina.constancehotels.com

The Table Bay Hotel in CAPE TOWN has been awarded Best Hotel in Africa at Virgin Holidays’ World Travel Market Awards. Its location on the V&A Waterfront has made it a key tourist destination. www. hoteltablebay.co.za

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ON THE PULSE With Cape Town trending for 2014, Louis Vuitton smartly got in early with its CT City Guide, adding it to a list of exclusive guides to 15 key cities around the globe. Guest contributor is local artist Beezy Bailey. The guides offer a selection of some of the finest restaurants, hotels, spas, cultural charms, designers, nightlife, bars and scenic spots. Individual guides can be purchased at the stores, or the full collection obtained in a stylish lacquered-wood case.

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Have you ever wondered what happens to your luggage after it passes through those black rubber aps at the airport check-in? “Baggage-handling is an emotional aspect of our business,â€? says Bali Mabena, SAA’s Baggage Services Manager. “We work with people’s personal belongings, which often include gifts for families or holiday memorabilia. Your ight might arrive early and the service on board could be excellent, but if your luggage isn’t there when you arrive, your entire trip is ruined.â€?

As you check in, the service agent at the counter places a tag on your luggage that tells the system where to direct it. The computer generates a unique message for each of the approximately 257 000 pieces of luggage SAA handles every month. Your precious Louis Vuitton or duffel bag then starts its approximately 10-minute journey to the make-up area, from where it’s transported

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to your aircraft. After checkin, it passes an automated screening system which either sends it to a second screening level or the chute assigned to each ight, where its barcoded tag number allows it to drop. Here a baggage-handler picks it up, scans it again and loads it into a wagon or container. It’s then transported to the plane and loaded into a particular compartment, depending on whether it has

to be transferred, belongs to a priority passenger or can be loaded onto the luggage carousel at the destination airport. Upon arrival, the bags are ofoaded in the same sequence. All the transfer bags go to a storage system from which they’ll later be moved on a conveyer belt to chutes in preparation for loading onto their next ight. Voilå! – Alet Janse van Rensburg

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Things to do, buy, see and try 1. PARIS, FRANCE La Maison Champs-Élysées has always added a distinctive aesthetic to the French capital. The hotel, designed by Maison Martin Margiela, now also presents the “blind bar”, with designer Philippe di Méo at the helm. The dark, shadowy space – in which bottles and their ingredients are obscured, compelling patrons to guess which drink is which – adds a whole new edge to Happy Hour! www.lamaisonchampselysees.com/ the-blind-bar.html

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2. DALLAS, TEXAS, USA The recently-revamped Joule Hotel has opened, featuring a flagship ESPA Spa designed by Adam T Tihany, a rooftop garden terrace with a climate-controlled pavilion and some very exciting retail offerings, like Traffic Play (featuring the Comme des Garçons Play range). www.thejouledallas.com 3. HONG KONG St George used to be a place where senior English civil servants and tai-pans would kick back after a busy day, with fine fare, vintage port and choice cigars. Today the restaurant is still the most intimate setting in town. http://hulletthouse.com/dining/st-george

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4. VENICE, ITALY Few places are as relaxing as Palladio’s Spa, close to St Mark’s Square. From the Dr Vitalis steam cocoon to the open-air massages, the establishment offers a well-deserved escape from the waterways and tiny streets. www. palladiohotelspa.com 5. SINGAPORE The much-awarded Pollen at Gardens by the Bay is the acme of fine dining in the city. The culinary direction taken by British chef Jason Atherton means the food’s Mediterranean, just the way we like it – all about the ingredients. The ambience is warm and welcoming. www.pollen.com.sg

6. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Although liquorice was traditionally seen as a sweetmeat, that perception is now changing, thanks to Danish brand Lakrids. It promotes the use of the anise plant (which is actually a legume) as a spice, in the tradition of the salty version, beloved by northern Europeans. http://liquorice.nu

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7. BROOKLYN, USA Found Object, owned by South African siblings Judith Sakinofsky and Salvo Stoch, is a decor and jewellery business at the Brooklyn docks and is filled with great gifting items. From textiles to jewellery, rugs and tableware, the business now ships globally. www.foundobject.co

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8. GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA Not only has the Andaz Peninsula Papagayo – a Hyatt hotel – just opened its doors but Cultural Insiders (experts on local attractions), brothers and surďŹ ng aďŹ cionados Alex and Mike Faherty are providing guests with their own How to Surf Costa Rica guidelines. http://papagayo.andaz. hyatt.com

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GAUTENG Kick-start the month Ki k t t th th off love with some laughter at the adults-only Kama Sutra Comedy Show at Kempton Park’s Emperors Palace on 1 February. The inimitable Da Karou Charou offers a hilarious take on sexuality in the Indian community. www. emperorspalace. co.za

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Celebrate summer in style at the Winestyle Summer Wine Down on 7-8 February at Tintswalo Waterfall Estate in Midrand, Johannesburg. Come dressed in white, unwind and enjoy delicious food and wine. www.wine-style.co.za

Clockwise, from top left: Kama Sutra Comedy Show. Mad Decent Block Party. The 21st Gauteng Homemakers Expo. Meetings Africa. Africa Energy Indaba. Winestyle Summer Wine Down.

Olmeca Tequila presents the Mad Decent Block Party, featuring Major Lazer, Dillon Francis and Flosstradamus from the USA. The streets of Jo’burg will be blocked off for the day, facilitating world-class street entertainment and partying at Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown on 8 February. The next day the event moves to the Dias Parking Lot, Heerengracht and Foreshore

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Head to Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre from 18-20 February for the Africa Energy Indaba. The event features international and continental experts sharing insights and solutions to Africa’s energy needs. www.energyindaba.co.za Meetings Africa is a showcase of Africa’s diverse business event offerings, from golf days to conferencing, showing you

how to put together a world-class meeting on this continent. Almost 3 000 delegates attended last year, coming from as far aďŹ eld as India and China. It runs from 24-26 February at Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre. www.meetingsafrica.co.za The 21st Gauteng Homemakers Expo takes place from 27 February-2 March at Jo’burg’s Coca-Cola Dome. Find inspiring ways to make your living space bright, bold and beautiful from 350 exhibitors. www. homemakersonline.co.za

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Make your holiday a ďŹ shing success with the South Indian Ocean BillďŹ sh Competition hosted by Le Morne Anglers Club in Black River from 8-14 February. http://morneanglers.com

ZAMBIA The Nc’wala Ceremony celebrates the ďŹ rst fruits of the land at the beginning of the harvest season. Every 24 February, the Ngoni tribe in the eastern part of Zambia present their produce to Paramount Chief Mpezeni. He tastes and blesses it in rituals marked by dancing and feasting. www. zambiatourism.com

The geospatial community in Ghana will get together at the Ghana Geospatial Forum 2014 from 24-26 February. The theme is “Envisioning a Spatially Enabled Ghana�. Delegates will meet at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. http:// ghgeospatialforum.org/

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On 2 February Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford will host the Super Bowl XLVII. Both New Jersey and New York have been named as ofďŹ cial hosts in this ďŹ rst outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl in history. www.nynjsuperbowl.com Watch South African Grammy Award-winning a capella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform hits from their 2011 album, Songs From a Zulu Farm, at the Wolftrap National Park for Performing Arts in Washington, DC from 27 January-5 February. www.wolftrap.org

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The Perth Festival is a multi-arts event that’s been running for the past 62 years. This year’s instalment takes place from 7 February-1 March, with the opening night featuring a spectacular ďŹ reworks display. Revellers will be entertained by more than 1 000 international artists and 33 Australian premières at the Chevron Gardens. http://2014.perthfestival.com.au

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The annual carnival in Rio de Janeiro, which takes place from 28 February-4 March, is undoubtedly the biggest and most colourful event in the world. Party like a local in a bejewelled samba costume, put on fancy dress or simply come as you are. The vibe reaches its climax on 2 and 3 March, when the samba schools entertain the more than 500 000-strong crowd. www.rio-carnival.net

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The 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival celebrates music, theatre and dance, hosted at different venues in the city. It runs from 18 February-22 March. Last year’s festival included 1 500 artists, 140 performers, 200 events, 13 world premières and 17 Asian premières, and this year promises to be bigger and better. www.hk.artsfestival.org

The Malaysia Technology Expo (20-22 February) focuses on inventions and innovations aimed at boosting the economy. This year sees the introduction of the Asian Youth Awards. It takes place at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur. www.mte.org

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Once the Saigon of cyclos, conical hats and American soldiers, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has evolved into an Asian powerhouse of commerce and culture. By Nazley Omar

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┬Ч┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ш┬З ┬Л╞б┬З┬О╟б ┬Л┬З┬Ц┬Р┬Г┬П╟п┬Х ┬О┬Г┬Ф┬Й┬З┬Х┬Ц ┬Т┬С┬Х┬Ц ┬С╞е┬Е┬З ┬Л┬Х ┬Г ┬И┬З┬Г┬Х┬Ц ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬Ы┬З┬Х╟д ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Л┬Ц┬Х ┬С┬Ш┬З┬Ф┬Х┬Л┬Ь┬З┬Ж╟б ┬Г┬Ф┬Е┬К┬З┬Ж ┬Щ┬Л┬Р┬Ж┬С┬Щ┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Ш┬Г┬Ч┬О┬Ц┬З┬Ж ┬Ф┬С┬С┬И╟б ┬Л┬Ц ┬Ф┬З┬Х┬З┬П┬Д┬О┬З┬Х ┬Г┬Р ┬З┬Г┬Ф┬О┬Ы ┬Ч┬Ф┬С┬Т┬З┬Г┬Р ┬Ц┬Ф┬Г┬Л┬Р ┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р╟в ┬С┬Р┬О┬Ы ┬Г ┬К┬Ч┬Й┬З ┬Т┬Л┬Е┬Ц┬Ч┬Ф┬З ┬С┬И ┬С ┬К┬Л ┬Л┬Р┬К ┬Г┬Ц┬Ц┬З┬Х┬Ц┬Х ┬Ц┬С ┬Л┬Ц┬Х ┬Х┬Ч┬Ф┬Ф┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ж┬Л┬Р┬Й┬Х╟д ┬К┬Л┬Х ┬П┬Г┬Ф┬Ш┬З┬О ┬Л┬Х ┬Д┬З┬Х┬Ц ┬Ш┬Л┬З┬Щ┬З┬Ж ┬Г┬Ц ┬Р┬Л┬Й┬К┬Ц╟б ┬Щ┬К┬З┬Р ┬Л┬Ц╟п┬Х ┬Л┬О┬О┬Ч┬П┬Л┬Р┬Г┬Ц┬З┬Ж╟д ═в ├Ш┬Р┬Й ┬Ъ┬а ┬Г┬Ф┬Л┬Х╟б ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═б ╧К═и═д ═и ═г═и═в═в ═б═ж═з═з War Remnants Museum: ┬С┬Ц ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬И┬Г┬Л┬Р┬Ц╟ж┬К┬З┬Г┬Ф┬Ц┬З┬Ж╟б ┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Х ┬П┬Ч┬Х┬З┬Ч┬П ┬Ж┬З┬Ц┬Г┬Л┬О┬Х ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Г┬Ц┬Ф┬С┬Е┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬З┬Х ╚Л┬Д┬С┬Ц┬К ┬П┬Л┬О┬Л┬Ц┬Г┬Ф┬Ы ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Е┬Л┬Ш┬Л┬О┬Л┬Г┬Р╚М ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Л┬З┬Ц┬Р┬Г┬П ┬Г┬Ф╟б ┬Щ┬К┬Л┬Е┬К ┬Ф┬Г┬Й┬З┬Ж ┬И┬С┬Ф ═Э═е ┬Д┬О┬С┬С┬Ж╟ж┬Х┬С┬Г┬Н┬З┬Ж ┬Ы┬З┬Г┬Ф┬Х╟д ┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ж┬З┬Ж ┬Л┬Р ═Э═е═г═б╟б ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Ы┬З┬Г┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Щ┬Г┬Ф ┬З┬Р┬Ж┬З┬Ж╟б ┬Л┬Ц ┬К┬С┬Ч┬Х┬З┬Х ┬З┬Ъ┬К┬Л┬Д┬Л┬Ц┬Х╟б ┬Щ┬З┬Г┬Т┬С┬Р┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Т┬К┬С┬Ц┬С┬Й┬Ф┬Г┬Т┬К┬Х╟б ┬Г┬Х ┬Щ┬З┬О┬О ┬Г┬Х

┬П┬З┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Г┬Р ┬Г┬Ф┬П┬С┬Ч┬Ф┬З┬Ж ┬Ш┬З┬К┬Л┬Е┬О┬З┬Х╟б ┬Ц┬Г┬Р┬Н┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬М┬З┬Ц┬Х╟д ═в═и ├Щ ┬г┬Р ┬Я┬Р╟б ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═г ╧К═и═д ═и ═г═й═г═а ═е═е═и═з City Hall: ┬Т┬Ф┬С┬П┬Л┬Р┬З┬Р┬Ц ┬Ц┬С┬Ч┬Ф┬Л┬Х┬Ц ┬Х┬Л┬Ц┬З╟б ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬К┬С┬П┬З ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ╟п┬Х ┬З┬С┬Т┬О┬З╟п┬Х ┬С┬П┬П┬Л┬Ц┬Ц┬З┬З ┬Щ┬Г┬Х ┬Е┬С┬Р┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Ч┬Е┬Ц┬З┬Ж ┬Д┬Ы ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Ф┬З┬Р┬Е┬К ┬Л┬Р ═Э═е═Ь═д╟б ┬Д┬Г┬Х┬З┬Ж ┬С┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Ж┬З┬Х┬Л┬Й┬Р ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ├Ш┬Ц┬З┬О ┬Ж┬З ┬Л┬О┬О┬З ┬Л┬Р ┬Г┬Ф┬Л┬Х╟д ┬Г┬Н┬З ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Ц┬Л┬П┬З ┬Ц┬С ┬Щ┬Г┬О┬Н ┬Г┬Е┬Ф┬С┬Х┬Х ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Ф┬С┬Г┬Ж ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬З┬Р┬М┬С┬Ы ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬П┬Г┬Р┬Л┬Е┬Ч┬Ф┬З┬Ж ┬Й┬Г┬Ф┬Ж┬З┬Р╟б ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Г ┬П┬С┬Р┬Ч┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц ┬Ц┬С ┬С ┬К┬Л ┬Л┬Р┬К ┬О┬С┬С┬Н┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Г┬Е┬Ф┬С┬Х┬Х ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Е┬Л┬Ц┬Ы╟д ═б═д═б ┬Й┬Ч┬Ы┬З┬Р ┬Ч┬З ┬О┬Ш┬Ж╟б ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═б ╧К═и═д ═и ═г═и═в═й ═в═б═и═е

The ReuniямБcation Palace: ┬С┬Ц ┬Г┬Х ┬Т┬Г┬О┬Г┬Ц┬Л┬Г┬О ┬Г┬Х ┬Ы┬С┬Ч ┬П┬Л┬Й┬К┬Ц ┬З┬Ъ┬Т┬З┬Е┬Ц╟б ┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Х ┬Щ┬К┬Л┬Ц┬З┬Щ┬Г┬Х┬К┬З┬Ж ┬Е┬С┬Р┬Е┬Ф┬З┬Ц┬З ┬З┬Ж┬Л╞д┬Е┬З ┬Щ┬Г┬Х ┬Ж┬З┬Х┬Л┬Й┬Р┬З┬Ж ┬И┬С┬Ф ┬С┬Ч┬Ц┬К ┬Л┬З┬Ц┬Р┬Г┬П╟п┬Х ┬И┬С┬Ф┬П┬З┬Ф ┬Ф┬З┬Х┬Л┬Ж┬З┬Р┬Ц╟б ┬Й┬С ┬Л┬Р┬К ┬Л┬З┬П╟д ┬К┬З ┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Ч┬Е┬Ц┬Ч┬Ф┬З ┬Ф┬З┬Х┬З┬П┬Д┬О┬З┬Х ┬Г ┬О┬Г┬Ф┬Й┬З╟б ┬П┬Ч┬О┬Ц┬Л╟ж ┬Ф┬С┬С┬П┬З┬Ж ┬О┬Л┬Д┬Ф┬Г┬Ф┬Ы╟б ┬Д┬Ч┬Ц ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Н┬Л┬Ц┬Е┬К┬З┬Р ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Д┬Г┬Х┬З┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬Щ┬С┬Ф┬Ц┬К ┬З┬Ъ┬Т┬О┬С┬Ф┬Л┬Р┬Й╟д ┬Г┬П ├╜ ┬К├Щ┬Л ┬Й┬К├В┬Г╟б ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═г ╧К═и═д ═и ═й═ж═й═г ═в═з═в Jade Emperor Pagoda: ┬Ч┬Л┬О┬Ц ┬Д┬Ы ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Г┬Р┬Ц┬С┬Р┬З┬Х┬З ┬Е┬С┬П┬П┬Ч┬Р┬Л┬Ц┬Ы ┬Л┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬З ═Э═е═Ь═Ь┬Х╟б ┬Г┬Р ┬С┬П┬Л┬Р┬С┬Ч┬Х ┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ц┬Ч┬З ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Г┬Ж┬З ┬П┬Т┬З┬Ф┬С┬Ф ╚Л ┬К┬Ч┬С┬Е ┬Г┬Л╚М ┬О┬С┬С┬П┬Х ┬С┬Ш┬З┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Ф┬Г┬Р┬Е┬З ┬К┬Г┬О┬О╟б ┬Х┬Щ┬Г┬Ц┬К┬З┬Ж ┬Л┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Х┬П┬З┬О┬О ┬С┬И ┬Л┬Р┬Е┬З┬Р┬Х┬З╟д ┬К┬З ┬Л┬Р┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Г┬Ц┬З ┬Щ┬С┬С┬Ж┬З┬Р ┬Е┬Г┬Ф┬Ш┬Л┬Р┬Й┬Х ┬С┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Щ┬Г┬О┬О┬Х ┬Ж┬З┬Т┬Л┬Е┬Ц ┬Х┬Е┬З┬Р┬З┬Х ┬И┬Ф┬С┬П ┬Г┬С┬Л┬Х┬Ц ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Ч┬Ж┬Ж┬К┬Л┬Х┬Ц ┬П┬Ы┬Ц┬К┬Х╟д ┬Р┬З ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬П┬С┬Х┬Ц ┬Л┬П┬Т┬С┬Ф┬Ц┬Г┬Р┬Ц ┬Ж┬З┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬З┬Х ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬К┬Л┬Р┬З┬Х┬З ┬Ц┬Ф┬Г┬Ж┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Г┬О ┬Ф┬З┬О┬Л┬Й┬Л┬С┬Ч┬Х ┬Т┬Г┬Р┬Ц┬К┬З┬С┬Р╟б ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬З┬П┬Т┬З┬Ф┬С┬Ф ╚В ┬Н┬Р┬С┬Щ┬Р ┬Г┬Х ┬Ц┬К┬З ╟▓┬Й┬С┬Ж ┬С┬И ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬К┬З┬Г┬Ш┬З┬Р┬Х ┬Г┬Д┬С┬Ш┬З╟б ┬Г┬О┬О ┬П┬С┬Ф┬Ц┬Г┬О┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬К┬З┬О┬О ┬Д┬З┬О┬С┬Щ╟│ ╚В ┬Л┬Х ┬Д┬З┬О┬Л┬З┬Ш┬З┬Ж ┬Ц┬С ┬Ж┬З┬Е┬Л┬Ж┬З ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬И┬Г┬Ц┬З ┬С┬И ┬Г┬О┬О ┬К┬Ч┬П┬Г┬Р ┬Д┬З┬Л┬Р┬Й┬Х╟д ═з═г ┬Г┬Л ┬К┬Л ┬Ч┬Ф┬Ч╟б ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═б ╧К═и═д ═и ═г═и═в═а ═г═б═а═в

From top: Women paddle across the Saigon River. A Buddhist statue on the outskirts of HCMC. A hawker sells her wares on Pham Ngu Lao Street. Notre Dame Cathedral.

NEW HCMC

┬С┬Щ ┬Л┬Х ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Д┬З┬Х┬Ц ┬Ц┬Л┬П┬З ┬Ц┬С ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬Р┬З┬Х┬Х ┬Г ┬Е┬Л┬Ц┬Ы ┬Л┬Р ┬Т┬Ф┬С┬И┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ж ╞к┬Ч┬Ъ╟д ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Г┬Р ┬Г┬Ф┬Ф┬Г┬Ы ┬С┬И ┬Р┬З┬Щ ┬Ж┬З┬Т┬Г┬Ф┬Ц┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Ж┬З┬Х┬Л┬Й┬Р┬З┬Ф ┬Х┬Ц┬С┬Ф┬З┬Х╟б ┬О┬Г┬Ш┬Л┬Х┬К ┬Ф┬С┬С┬И┬Ц┬С┬Т ┬Д┬Г┬Ф┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Х┬Щ┬Г┬Р┬Н┬Ы ┬Х┬Щ┬Л┬П┬П┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Т┬С┬С┬О┬Х ┬Ж┬С┬Ц┬Ц┬З┬Ж ┬Г┬Ф┬С┬Ч┬Р┬Ж ┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Ф┬Л┬Е┬Ц ═Э╟б ┬О┬Г┬Ч┬Р┬Е┬К┬З┬Х ┬Г┬Р ┬С┬Т┬Ч┬О┬З┬Р┬Ц╟б ┬С┬Т┬Ц┬Л┬П┬Л┬Х┬Ц┬Л┬Е ┬Г┬Х┬Х┬Г┬Ч┬О┬Ц ┬С┬Р ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Х┬З┬Р┬Х┬З┬Х╟д ┬С┬Ф ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Г┬Ж┬Ш┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Ч┬Ф┬С┬Ч┬Х╟б ┬Ц┬К┬З ┬Е┬Ч┬О┬Л┬Р┬Г┬Ф┬Ы ┬С┬Т┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Х ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬З┬Р┬Ж┬О┬З┬Х┬Х╟д ┬К┬З ┬Л┬З┬Ц┬Р┬Г┬П┬З┬Х┬З ┬Щ┬Л┬О┬О ┬З┬Г┬Ц ┬Г┬О┬П┬С┬Х┬Ц ┬Г┬Р┬Ы┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Ц┬К┬Г┬Ц ┬П┬С┬Ш┬З┬Х╟д ┬З┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ч┬Ф┬Г┬Р┬Ц┬Х ┬Х┬З┬Ф┬Ш┬З ┬И┬З┬Ф┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц┬З┬Ж ┬Ж┬Ч┬Е┬Н ┬З┬Й┬Й┬Х╟б ┬Х┬С┬Ч┬Т┬Х ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬Е┬С┬Р┬Й┬З┬Г┬О┬З┬Ж ┬Т┬Л┬Й╟п┬Х ┬Д┬О┬С┬С┬Ж ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Й┬Ф┬Л┬О┬О┬З┬Ж ┬Ф┬Г┬Ц┬Х╟б ┬Х┬Р┬Г┬Н┬З┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬И┬Ф┬С┬Й┬Х╟д ┬С┬Ф ┬Х┬С┬П┬З┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Г ┬Ц┬Г┬Ж ┬Ц┬Г┬П┬З┬Ф╟б ┬Ц┬Ф┬Ы ┬Ц┬Ф┬Г┬Ж┬Л┬Ц┬Л┬С┬Р┬Г┬О ┬Л┬З┬Ц┬Р┬Г┬П┬З┬Х┬З ┬Х┬С┬Ч┬Т ╚Л┬Т┬К┬С╚М ┬С┬Ф ┬Г ┬Х┬Г┬Ш┬С┬Ч┬Ф┬Ы ┬Т┬Г┬Р┬Е┬Г┬Н┬З ╞д┬О┬О┬З┬Ж ┬Щ┬Л┬Ц┬К ┬К┬З┬Ф┬Д┬Х╟б ┬Т┬С┬Ф┬Н ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Х┬К┬Ф┬Л┬П┬Т┬Х ╚Л┬Д┬Г┬Р┬К ┬Ъ┬З┬С╚М╟д ┬З┬Х┬Ц┬Г┬Ч┬Ф┬Г┬Р┬Ц ┬Х┬Ц┬Г╞б ┬Г┬Ф┬З ┬К┬Г┬Т┬Т┬Ы ┬Ц┬С ┬К┬З┬О┬Т ┬Ы┬С┬Ч ┬Х┬К┬З┬О┬О ┬Ы┬С┬Ч┬Ф ┬Х┬З┬Г┬И┬С┬С┬Ж ┬С┬Ф ┬Г┬Ж┬Ж ┬Е┬С┬Р┬Ж┬Л┬П┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Х ┬Ц┬С ┬Ы┬С┬Ч┬Ф ┬П┬З┬Г┬О╟д ┬К┬З┬Ф┬З╟п┬Х ┬Х┬С┬П┬З┬Ц┬К┬Л┬Р┬Й ┬Ц┬С ┬Т┬О┬З┬Г┬Х┬З ┬Г┬О┬О ┬Т┬С┬Е┬Н┬З┬Ц┬Х ┬Г┬Р┬Ж ┬Т┬Г┬О┬Г┬Ц┬З┬Х╟б ┬И┬Ф┬С┬П ┬Г┬Ч┬Ц┬К┬З┬Р┬Ц┬Л┬Е ┬З┬Х┬Ц┬З┬Ф┬Р ┬Е┬Ч┬Л┬Х┬Л┬Р┬З ┬Ц┬С ┬О┬Л┬Ц┬Ц┬О┬З ┬Т┬С┬Т╟ж┬Ч┬Т

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From top, left: A man sits outside a Buddhist temple. Van Thanh Park. Notre Dame Cathedral.

apartments are a great reprieve from the city’s bustle. Set alongside the Saigon River with gorgeous pools and sporting facilities, this is an ideal option for a laidback, serene environment. 53 Vo Truong Toan, District 2 +84 3744 4111 Kimdo Royal City Hotel: Located in the heart of the city, this four-star hotel is convenient, comfortable and classy. 133 Nguyen Hue, District 1 +84 3822 5914 CHEAP AND CHEERFUL Cat Huy Hotel: Conveniently located in the backpacker district, this hotel offers easy access to HCMC’s nightlife, entertainment and tourist sites. 353/28 Pham Ngu Lao, District 1 +8 48392 08716 Minh Chau Hotel: Fantastic service, good facilities and a rooftop terrace make this hotel great value for money. 119 Hoa Hung St, District 10 +84 8 3862 6705

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FOR BIG SPENDERS Caravelle Hotel: A building made famous as a hub of communication during the Vietnam War, housing many foreign nationals and journalists. It was bombed in the 1960s, but the iconic Saigon Bar remains almost intact. With 335 lavish rooms, including the exclusive Signature Floors and Signature Hotel, plus six wining and dining areas, this is for those who live large. The rooftop is open for drinks. 19 Lam Son Square, District 1 +84 3823 4999 www.caravellehotel.com New World Saigon Hotel: Immerse yourself in an Asian-inspired establishment with easy access to Western creature comforts. Five-star luxury, renowned restaurants and divine spas are at your disposal. 76 Le Lai, District 1 +84 3822 8888 MIDDLE RANGE Riverside Apartments: A hidden gem, these serviced

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here’s a lovely sense of calm that prevails in Singapore. Despite the slick, steeland-glass skyscrapers, the crowded markets, the roads that stream with luxury cars and the restaurants that are packed late into the night, there’s no urgent, big-city bustle. Instead, SINGAPORE seems to rest easy in its economic success: LIFE HERE APPEARS SMOOTH AND CALCULATED. People wait for the green light before they cross a road; there are lots of trees and no litter; public spaces are immaculate; PEOPLE EVEN RESPECT THE “PRIORITY SEATING� signs on public transport. Everything simply works. Once a trading post of the British East India Company, Singapore’s commercial roots stretch deep into the poor, cramped neighbourhoods of Chinese, Indian, Malay and Arab immigrants. These days, poverty in Singapore is rare: there’s only 2% UNEMPLOYMENT, 90% OF THE POPULATION OWN THEIR HOMES and one in every six households has at least US$1 million in disposable wealth.

View of Singapore from the observation desk at the SkyPark on the top oor of Marina Bay Sands. The large wheel is the Singapore Flyer.

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SKYPARK AT MARINA BAY SANDS www.marinabaysands.com SkyPark Observation Deck open 10am-10pm. Entrance: S$20 (R165) per adult and S$13 (R107) per child You can’t miss this spectacular 57-storey building. Stretched across the top of the three towers is another building that resembles an enormous ship. This feat of architecture and engineering has become one of the most popular hotels in Singapore, and you’ll struggle to ďŹ nd a room at short notice (even though there are 2 500 and the rate starts at around R7 000 a night). While the rooftop inďŹ nity pool is only open to guests, the observation deck of the SkyPark is open to the public. The view from up here is astounding. TIP: BREAKFAST WITH A VIEW Find a table at Sky on 57 – a restaurant on the top oor of Marina Bay Sands that’s owned by Singaporean celebrity chef Justin Quek. The buffet breakfast, which opens at 7am, costs under S$40 (R330) per person. www.marinabaysands.com

While many travellers love the First-World appeal of the city, others say it lacks soul and liken its slick façade to “urban Botoxâ€?. But look carefully and you’ll still ďŹ nd enclaves

that give Singapore its personality: little restaurants owned by the same family for generations; rows of BRIGHTLY COLOURED SHOPHOUSES (doublestorey buildings where

families live above their shops); corner cafÊs and tiny antique stores that hold the everyday treasures of Singapore’s heritage between their walls. Whether you’re there

for only a few hours or a week, Singapore will likely work its charm on you. HERE ARE NINE PLACES THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR MUSTDO LIST:

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The Espanade, outside Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, is a popular place for Singaporeans to jog after work, take a stroll or meet friends.

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SHOPPES AT MARINA BAY

www.marinabaysands.com An extension of the Marina Bay Sands complex, the stores at this shopping centre are predominantly international luxury brands (including Bvlgari, Prada, Cartier and Louis Vuitton) and there are many finedining restaurants. There’s also a theatre, museum and casino. If walking this mall doesn’t tire your legs out, buy an ice-cream and stroll along the Esplanade, just outside the centre, which has lovely views of the slick financial district cityscape (particularly in the early evening). TIP: SAIL AWAY Take a guided hop-on, hop-off River Explorer Boat Tour from Marina Bay Sands to Clarke Quay for S$19,90 (R165) per adults and S$9,90 (R81) per child. Operating hours are 9am-11pm. www.citytours.sg/ riverexplorerboattour.html

GARDENS BY THE BAY

Outdoor gardens open 5am-2am and entrance is free. Conservatories open 9am-9pm; entrance from S$8 (R65) Alongside Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay is an extravagant botanical display that cost some R7 billion to establish. The beautiful themed gardens and impressive Supertree Grove (a collection of enormous man-installed trees) provide a quiet botanic gardens-type space for visitors, while the climatecontrolled conservatories, home to the evocatively named Cloud Forest and Flower Dome, show rare plants from around the world. Events and displays are held here regularly; see the website for what’s on. www.gardensbythebay.com.sg

The promenade running from Boat Quay to Clarke Quay is a popular hangout. Many restaurants and bars line the Singapore River.

The Supertrees in Gardens by the Bay are man-made structures that gather solar power.

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CLARKE QUAY AND BOAT QUAY

Singaporeans will readily admit that eating is almost their national sport – and at Clarke Quay and Boat Quay on the banks of the Singapore River, you’ll find a variety of places to get your fill. A favourite post-work

hangout for many locals, the area was once Singapore’s port and the old warehouses and shophouses have been converted into clubs, bars, cafés and restaurants. www.clarkequay.com.sg and www.yoursingapore.com

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Kampong Glam was once designated an area for Malays and Muslims and the Sultan Mosque was completed here in 1928.

KAMPONG GLAM

www.kampongglam.org.sg The old Malay area of Kampong Glam, with the Sultan Mosque at its heart, is an absolute treat to explore. Here you’ll find small family-run cafés (where meals are very reasonably priced) and shops that have been around for generations. Many of the buildings are being bought, renovated and turned into restaurants and guesthouses, so get here soon, before Kampong Glam gets glammed up. That said, there’s an interesting mix of eateries and stores (selling mostly vintage-inspired fashion), so plan to spend a few hours here. For the best teh tarik (“pulled tea”, which is poured from a height) in Singapore, go to Bhai Café on Baghdad St; keep an eye out for a fascinating antique store called The Heritage Shop on Jalan Sultan. From Kampong Glam, take a taxi to Little India, where Indian culture still thrives. TIP: STAY NEARBY Established in converted shophouses, the Sultan is a quiet boutique hotel on the fringe of Kampong Glam. A more affordable option is a hostel like 5FootWay Inn Project Bugis. Here the rooms are tiny, but clean and the bathrooms are shared. www.thesultan.com.sg; double room from S$170 – R1 390 – per night. www.5footwayinn.com; double room from S$36 – R300.

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www.orchardroad.org Love to shop? Then pack light. Once lined with fruit trees and nutmeg plantations, Orchard Road boasts 22 malls, five department stores and 800 000m2 of shopping heaven. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, it doesn’t exist. TIP: STAY NEARBY Luxury hotel Shangri-La, just off Orchard Road, has rooms big enough for you and your shopping. www.shangri-la. com/singapore; double room from S$353 – R2 865 – per night.

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Chinatown is a wonderfully colourful area, with lots of restaurants and market stalls.

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The most fabled hotel in all of Asia, Raffles is a popular Singapore landmark and at any time of day you’ll see tourists snapping photographs of the hotel’s white façade, where presidents, royalty and über-glamorous A-listers have stayed. While only guests are allowed into the hotel itself (if you are one, be sure to book a fascinating walk with Raffles’ resident historian), the famous Long Bar is open to the public. Here you’ll find people ordering iconic Singapore Slings (about

1 500 of the cocktails are made each day), which were first created in this bar in the early 1900s. The Raffles gift shop is open to all, as is the luxurious Raffles mall. TIP: STAY NEARBY What colonial romance is to Raffles, glitzy modern chic is to Naumi, a luxury hotel in the street behind Raffles. Its rooftop bar and infinity pool offer exquisite views of the city skyline. www.raffles.com/ singapore www.naumihotels.com; double room from S$600 – R4 900 – per night

CHINATOWN

Chinatown comprises five districts and the Chinatown MRT station is at the heart of the action for tourists. The streets are lit with red Chinese lanterns and market stalls stock an abundance of “I heart Singapore” T-shirts, kimonos, cellphone accessories, socks, trinkets and paper fans. Of course, there are plenty of food

stalls too. The Chinatown Heritage Centre has very interesting displays that show what life was like for immigrants back in the 1800s. 48 Pagoda St; open daily 9am-8pm; entrance S$8 – R65 – per adults and S$4,80 – R40 – per child. www. chinatown.sg and www. chinatownheritage.com.sg

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BUGIS STREET

www.bugis-street.com With more than 800 stalls, Bugis Street is Singapore’s biggest street-shopping location and is open late into the night. For travellers on a tight budget, this is the place to trawl for clothing, cellphone accessories and bags; you could wander here for hours. Feeling peckish? Head to the hawker centre across Queen St, where you can order various Singaporean dishes, including (if you’re brave) sliced fish porridge, pig stomach soup and a Singaporean favourite: fish head soup.

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Crystal Palar, who works for an international real estate consultancy and brokerage company, was born and raised in Singapore before moving to Shanghai. She returned to Singapore five years ago. MY FAVOURITE PLACE FOR SINGAPOREAN SEAFOOD (chilli or black pepper crabs) is the East Coast. The four restaurants – Redhouse, Long Beach, Jumbo and No Signboard – serve similar food and at least you have options, if some are busy. SINGAPORE IS AN AMAZINGLY KIDFRIENDLY PLACE. Sentosa is a giant amusement park (one day isn’t enough); the Singapore Zoo and Jurong Bird Park are fantastic; Gardens by the Bay and the Science Park are also good options. FOR A ROMANTIC DINNER, my husband and I go to Lighthouse at the Fullerton, where you get a panoramic view of Singapore’s CBD and skyline. MY FAVOURITE MALL

Crystal Palar with her family.

ON ORCHARD RD is Ngee Ann City (also known as Takashimaya), a one-stop shop for

everything from luxury brands to groceries. AT A HAWKER CENTRE, don’t sit at a table with a packet of tissues

IN TRANSIT Singapore’s Changi Airport is regularly voted the best in the world and feels more like a mall and hotel than an airport. The three terminals are linked with a Skytrain, allowing passengers access to five themed gardens, a rooftop pool, gym, gaming centres, rest areas, cinemas, TV lounges and more

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than 120 restaurants. Passengers in transit for more than five hours qualify for a free bus tour of Singapore. Each terminal has an Ambassador Hotel; room tariffs start at S$47 (R385) per night, which is very reasonable compared with rates in the city. www.changiairport.com www.harilelahospitality.com

left on it – that’s the Singaporean way of reserving the seat, known locally as “chope-ing”.

OTHER ATTRACTIONS 1. Ride elephants and stroll through a rainforest at the SINGAPORE ZOO (www.zoo.com.sg; from S$22 – R180 – per adult and S$14 – R115 – per child). 2. Swim with dolphins or dive with sharks at UNDERWATER WORLD (www. underwaterworld.com. sg; from S$29,90 – R245 – per adult and S$20,60 – R169 – per child). 3. Sit down for a meal or just take in the views from the SINGAPORE FLYER, the city’s big wheel (www. singaporeflyer.com; from S$33 – R270 – per adult and S$21 – R172 – per child). 4. The neighbourhood of LITTLE INDIA is an enclave of Tamil culture: lots of small restaurants and market stalls selling goods for a steal. 5. Get lost in the “seven zones”, including Ancient Egypt and SciFi City, at UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, one of Singapore’s most popular attractions. (www.rwsentosa.com; from S$74 – R607 – per adult and S$54 – R443 – per child).

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LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

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Whether you fly, or drive the scenic 3½ hours from Johannesburg to the Tlokweng border post, The Grand Palm Hotel Casino and Convention Resort and the nearby 4-star Peermont Mondior hotel are your first choice for business and entertainment in Botswana. Just a few minutes from the city centre of Gaborone and the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, The Grand Palm Resort, offers superior accommodation in the 5-star Peermont Walmont hotel and 3-star Metcourt Inn, lively entertainment, extensive dining choices and worldclass conference facilities at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC), all set in beautiful gardens where indigenous birds and tame wildlife roam free. One of the finest facilities of its kind in southern Africa, the award-winning GICC is a multifaceted convention centre which hosts from 8 to 1800 delegates in a variety of elegant venues while the resort offers high speed wi-fi coverage and a free airport shuttle service. The all-suite Peermont Mondior hotel, situated in the heart of Gaborone, is a favourite with discerning business travellers for its exceptional standards and renowned Botswana hospitality. Peermont Central Reservations: Tel: 0860 777 900 (SA only) or Tel: +267 363 7777 (Direct) | Book online at www.grandpalm.bw

48 HOURS IN GABORONE

When visiting Botswana, only business travellers tend to visit Gaborone. The rest make for the country’s idyllic game reserves up north. Yet it’s a city with a lot to offer – not least, its warm, gentle ethos and peaceful community. By April Simpson

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A ock of red-billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) silhouetted at sunset, Mokolodi Nature Reserve, Botswana.

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THERE’S A LOT MORE TO DO IN GABORONE THAN MOST PEOPLE REALISE. HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS: For the time-conscious traveller seeking a mini-safari experience, catch a glimpse of Botswana’s impressive wildlife with a game drive, capped off by a bush braai. +267 316 1955. information@mokolodi.com www.mokolodi.com

CHILL OUT AT THE GABORONE SUN’S FUN POOLSIDE BAR Steps away from the University of Botswana, the Gaborone Sun boasts a popular poolside bar. Enjoy live music or watch the day’s must-see sporting event with friends. Gaborone Sun, Chuma Drive. +267 361 6000. www. suninternational.com/gaboronesun/pages/default.aspx

WORK AND PLAY IN MASA CENTRE Welcome to the new, fashionable

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face of Gaborone. Anchored by the “business-first” Lansmore Masa Square Hotel, the Masa Centre includes a 3D cinema, spa, coffee shop, gym and several modish restaurants like Ribs and Rumps, Cappello and La Touche de Provençe. Relax and take in Gaborone’s old- and new-world charm at Absolut, the Lansmore’s chic rooftop bar. Lansmore Masa Square Hotel, cnr Khama Crescent & Western Ave. +267 315 9954. www.lonrhohotels.com/content/ lansmore-masa-square

HIKE UP KGALE HILL Get your early-morning adrenaline kick by hiking up Kgale Hill, the highest point in Gaborone. There are several trails, none of them properly signposted, so don’t be afraid to ask around before setting out. It’s a fairly easy, hour-long walk that mostly involves trekking up a

Top: The Gaborone Sun pool area. Above: Bush braai at Mokolodi Nature Reserve.

moderately rocky incline. Beware of the resident baboons, however.

CATCH A SHOW AND SHOP AT BOTSWANACRAFT When big-name acts come to town, they perform in the large, outdoor space at Botswanacraft. Take your best clients to a show and visit the store for a hand-woven basket. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the local artist. Plot 20716, Magochanyama Rd (off Western Bypass), Block 3. +267 392 2487. www.botswanacraft.bw

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A beautiful 1 075 m², modern home on 10 000 m² stand in a secure gated community in the heart of Sandhurst. Designed by renowned architect Louis Louw. 4 Beautiful en suite bedrooms, fabulous outdoor entertainment areas with views and vistas over Sandton. Ceiling to floor glass windows and doors afford wonderful light and the sense of freedom and space. WEB ACCESS HP1155793

Louis Green 082 820 3040, Lynda Greeff 082 446 5120

Westcliff, Gauteng A Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity

R38.5 MILLION

We present this most spectacular northern 5 230 m² viewsite. Perched on an unsurpassed position along the Westcliff Ridge, this immaculate family residence offers grand spaces, original character features, amazing views and an unprecedented 90 metre frontage. Create an executive architectural signature family home in this elite suburb WEB ACCESS HP1159723

Kimberly Dods 082 601 2099, Carol Truter 082 466 1045

Clifton, Western Cape Best Position

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Constantia Upper, WC Well-Positioned Executive Home

R22.5 MILLION

A well-proportioned family home which has been renovated with flair and attention to detail. Easy entertainment flow from formal and informal living areas to a wonderful large undercover patio, overlooking pool and pretty landscaped garden with play area for children. Lovely unobstructed views across the valley. WEB ACCESS KW1155471

Lesley Payne 082 455 4808, Ingrid Hoaten 082 490 6246

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TUCK INTO RIBS AT LINGA LONGA OR THE BULL & BUSH In Botswana, locals joke that there are more cows than people. On Mondays, from 5pm until late, you’ll find a good number of both at Ribs Night. For P75, enjoy a thick cut of juicy ribs with a generous helping of chips at Linga Longa or Bull & Bush, two expat-friendly restaurants. Owned by the same family, both offer indoor and outdoor seating and a fun, lively atmosphere. Bull & Bush, Plot 8766/A, CBD. +267 397 5070. www.bullandbush.net Linga Longa, Shop 35, Riverwalk Shopping Mall, Village. +267 370 0844

MEANDER DOWN MAIN MALL Main Mall is the pulse of Gabs. From dawn to dusk, it’s lined with vendors selling everything from wooden bowls to music and braaied meat. Start at the north end near the government buildings and work your way down the centre. Stop in the stately Cresta President Hotel for a drink and watch passersby from the Pula le Thebe Executive Lounge balcony. Finish your stroll at the south end’s National Museum

Above: Kgale Hill. Below: Phakalane Golf Estate Hotel Resort.

18-hole golf course and luxurious facilities offer a great place to mix business with pleasure. Plot 54971, Phakalane. +267 393 0000. http://golfestate.phakalane.com

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SLOW DOWN AT SANITAS TEA GARDEN

& Art Gallery for a lesson on Botswana’s early history. Cresta President Hotel, Plot 1169, Botswana Rd. +267 395 3631. www.crestapresidenthotel.com Botswana National Museum & Art Gallery, 331 Independence Ave, Badiri Ext 5. +267 397 4616.

CLOSE THE DEAL AT PHAKALANE GOLF ESTATE HOTEL RESORT Mingle with government officials and executives in this wealthy residential neighbourhood. Located about 20 minutes from the city centre, Phakalane’s attractive

Unwind in this off-the-beatenpath eatery, whose patrons have included American First Lady Michelle Obama. Located off a dirt road near the Gaborone Dam, Sanitas invites visitors to pass through a large nursery before entering the leafy, outdoor restaurant. Enjoy fresh salads, locally grown vegetables and traditional Setswana dishes in a cool, shady atmosphere. Sanitas Farm (off Machel Drive), Gaborone Dam. +267 3931358. www.sanitas.co.bw

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?See[`YS 4WSUZ >aVYW “R&R” usually stands for “rest and relaxation”, but in Mozambique’s Massinga Beach Lodge, it’s also the name of a refreshing signature cocktail made from locally manufactured rum and roseberry juice. The lodge is ideal for weary souls seeking luxury in a romantic, culture-filled setting. Practically, it has positive spin-offs for the local community, providing jobs for fishermen. Couples can spend time gazing at the gentle waves or reading poetry to each other. You don’t even need to get out of bed for a panoramic view of the ocean – although you’d miss

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out on the chance to skinnydip or take a walk along the beach. The endless stretches of sand squeak beneath your feet, making you feel like the first person to tread on them. It’s possible to walk for hours without seeing a soul, giving you complete privacy. No romantic getaway would be complete without a leisurely sunset dinner

or breakfast in bed. Where Massinga Beach Lodge really shines is in the exceptional attention shown by every staff member. Nothing’s too much trouble to ensure you

HOT TIPS Visit during the whale migration season. Pack binoculars and watch from the comfort of your chalet. Massinga Beach is accessible by flight from Johannesburg, although self-driving’s possible from Maputo in a 4x4. For maximum enjoyment, we recommend a minimum stay of four nights.

have a wonderful stay, from the nightly turndown service to home-made cookies, bubble bath and rose petals on the bed. Rates: R13 615 per couple sharing for four nights, full board, excluding airport transfer (honeymoon package). Additional night: R3 410 per couple sharing per night. www.massingabeach. co.za – Vuyokazi Mnyengeza

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This five-star establishment, built spectacularly atop a hill on the bank of the Sterkfontein Dam, offers breathtaking views of the Platberg, the Free State’s own Table Mountain. The lodge is strategically situated at a crossroads between Bloemfontein, Durban and Johannesburg and – at just three hours’ drive from each city – offers an ideal escape for urban visitors. As soon as you take the Harrismith turnoff, majestic views beckon, helping you unwind. Mountain views, beautiful bird species and narrow roads with a canopy of eucalyptus form a natural tunnel, compelling you to surrender to the magic and romance of the setting. The lodge is well hidden by its natural surroundings, making it ideal for lovers seeking peace and privacy. The sandstone façade adds an element of old-world charm. With only four well-appointed suites, the establishment accommodates eight people, so you’re guaranteed tranquillity.

FOR LOVERS SEEKING A SANCTUARY

I[^V :adeWe ?ag`fS[` >aVYW Start the day with a glorious breakfast on the terrace, overlooking the crystal-clear waters of the dam, lulled by its soothing waves and the gentle breeze. Spend the day enjoying a boat cruise, hiking, horse-riding, fly-

fishing, game-viewing, birdwatching or mountain-biking. If the evening gets chilly, request a blanket, snacks and wine for your comfort while star-gazing (the Free State’s known for its spectacular night sky, undimmed by surrounding city lights) or simply watch a romantic movie in bed. The lodge offers a varied collection of DVDs. Simply hang the “Do not disturb” sign on your door handle while you and your beloved soak in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne. Turn the romance up a notch by requesting scented oils

and candles. Rates: From R1 350 pp sharing per night. www. wildhorses.co.za – Vuyokazi Mnyengeza

HOT TIPS Not all the rooms offer a view of the dam. Request the Zebra or the Sunrise room for the best view. The lodge doesn’t serve lunch. Stock up on goodies from nearby Harrismith or explore the scenic surroundings by driving to neighbouring lodges for a meal. A candle-lit dinner for two in the wine cellar is available on request. There’s no spa, but if you’re in the mood for some pampering, ask the manager to recommend one in the region.

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In the heart of Cape Town sits a stately, double-storeyed building that’s now a national monument. Combining Georgian and Victorian architecture, plus all the hallmarks of what made it a fine residence, the Cape Cadogan is now a boutique hotel in Gardens. Away from the busy streets of the suburb, it’s an intimate haven of smiles, kindness, historic charm and contemporary, upmarket style. Its small size enables highly personalised service. As soon as you enter its doors,

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the sounds of the outside world are shut out, allowing you complete comfort and relaxation. From wine around the cosy fireside in the lounge to the beautiful, tranquil garden, the pool area or traditional rooibos tea and

HOT TIPS Cape Cadogan only serves breakfast, but can arrange for in-room dining with wine pairing until 9.30pm. Secure parking is available on the street. There’s a bar in the lounge area. Complimentary transfers are available to and from the V&A Waterfront.

biscuits in the library, you can succumb completely to the calmness and peace of the establishment. With only 15 well-appointed rooms (seven standard rooms and seven luxury (each with its own private patio), as well as a presidential suite, which features a private pool and courtyard), your every need is catered for. Popular among honeymooners, the Cape Cadogan lays on the romance with rose petals on the bed, a full champagne breakfast in the privacy of your room, a bubble and oil bath for two and a beautiful view of Table Mountain. If it’s quiet time together that you’re wanting, you’ve come to the right spot. However, Cape Town offers endless activities and entertainment for visitors, while just down the road, Gardens features a plethora of shops, coffee bars, bistros and restaurants. Hotel staff will make reservations for you and you can take a leisurely stroll to dinner, followed by a night of soft music and dancing in your room. Alternatively, if the weather permits, sit under the stars on your patio enjoying a fruit and cheese platter and champagne, reminiscing over how you met – and how you knew it was meant to be from that first encounter! Rates: From R1 500 pp sharing. www.capecadogan.co.za – Jabulile Ngwenya

FOR A ROYAL EXPERIENCE

FZW 9adYW Bd[hSfW 9S_W >aVYW EbS “Opulent. Serene. Timeless.” This is the motto of this establishment – and it certainly lives up to it. Five exclusive villas built on the edge of the impressive sandstone cliffs offer privacy and luxury, as well as phenomenal views of the Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve on KwaZulu-Natal’s South Coast. A huge stone bath in the bedroom offers the perfect spot to unwind together with a glass of wine and watch the evening roll in through the

floor-to-ceiling glass wall. Each villa includes a private balcony and outside shower. Should you prefer to indulge in a romantic meal in the privacy of your room, The Gorge has in-room dining down to a fine art. Food arrives piping hot and a table for two is set up on your balcony, allowing you to enjoy the peace and serenity of the location. There are no set meal times, which enhances the timeless aspect promoted by the lodge. The staff offer unsurpassed

hospitality and attention, making your stay memorable. Guests are greeted by name at their car upon arrival and your car’s cleaned before you leave. It’s easy to feel like royalty when your favourite drink is brought to you. If you’re feeling adventurous, the surrounding area offers educational game drives, ziplining, vulture restaurant excursions, birding, hiking, mountain-biking, golf

HOT TIPS Order the lamb shank – it’s the best we’ve ever eaten. There are no telephones in the bedrooms to order room service, so ensure you have the reception number on your cellphone. The Gorge produces its own range of organic essential oils, which are of the highest export quality, so stock up on your favourites.

and fishing. Horse-riding in the reserve or on the beach can be arranged. Or you can simply do as we did and opt for a relaxing, full-body massage, followed by a bubble bath, a glass of wine and a delicious dinner delivered to your room. Opulent, serene, timeless… tick! Rates: From R1 375 pp sharing midweek and R1 815 pp sharing weekends. These include only breakfast, but lunch and dinner can be arranged on request. www.thegorge.co.za – Lara Eliot

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RIDE ON

ǡ ơ HIGH-ROLLING Nick Yell describes his trip through SA’s Tankwa Karoo and the Cederberg to the West Coast hamlet of Doringbaai There’s no doubt in my mind: it’s a leopard print and it’s fresh. I’ve risen early to take photographs of the beautiful mountainscapes surrounding our old farm labourer’s cottage (Hoek-Sonder-Koffie) in the Cederberg. I’m padding about in

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my long johns and stokies because Caption I don’t expect to go far. But the call of rushing water draws me further up the jeep track. After about a kilometre, I locate a cluster of rapids. I sit on the edge of a weathered sandstone shelf and meditate a while, the roar of the water ensuring there’s nothing else on my mind. On my way down the mountain, I reflect on our epic dirt-track journey through the Tankwa Karoo yesterday to get here. Due to a last-minute change in our route plan, I badly underestimated the distance we needed to cover and we broke one of the cardinal rules of adventure motorcycle touring: arriving at our destination after dark. The day’s run was 560km and took us nearly 11 hours – although that included numerous stops to gaze at the spring flowers, eat our snacks and help my riding partner pick up his beloved Triumph Scrambler after he fell twice, once on a tricky sand section and again in a donga on a detour. Thankfully, today’s route is a

Clockwise, from top: Anton’s Honad XR50 in the highlands of Malawi. Fryer’s Cove Boutique Winery is held up in the Old Crayfish factory in Doringbaai. Nick Yell gives the thumbs up.

lot shorter. We’ll head off on the Wolfdrif/Elizabethan dirt track, then follow a jeep track over an elevated plateau and descend the Brand se Berg Pass to the N7 outside Klawer. From this point to Doringbaai is only about 60km, but it’s a new route for us and we have no idea of the condition of the roads. We arrive in Doringbaai in just over an hour. Watching the Cape rollers washing into the eponymous bay from our apartment’s balcony, I spy the Fryer’s Cove winery holed up in an old crayfish factory

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Clockwise, from left: Thornbay Accommodation in Doringbaai offers beautiful sea views. Pineapples on their way to the market. Anton with a Rwandan friend. A biker in the daisies.

across the water. It’s a sought-after boutique Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir brand and whether you’re a wine aficionado or not, strolling along the old crayfish boat jetty with your tasting glass in hand is a great experience – like the excellent seafood we enjoy later. The next day a local potato farmer arrives and urges us to take a left turn to Citrusdal in about 10km, which reveals the best new-dirt track of the trip. After three encounters with deep water where recent rains have washed away the road, we climb a mountain pass and travel through the most diverse landscape and farmlands we’ve seen for some time. Finally, we engage the last section of dirt road on our journey: the spectacular Middelburg Pass between Citrusdal and Op-dieBerg near Ceres – a fitting end to yet another head-clearing adventure motorcycle experience. ACCOMMODATION Cederberg: Traveller’s Rest cottages www.travellersrest.co.za Doringbaai: Thornbay Accommodation www. doringbaai-accommodation.co.za

We broke one of the cardinal rules of adventure motorcycle touring: arriving at our destination after dark. A BUMP IN THE ROAD Anton Crone recounts a pivotal part of his journey from Cape Town to Rubondo Island on Lake Victoria and back My ribs crack like twigs: three of them, in rapid succession. There’s no pain; that will come later, so I

lie on the wet clay taking shallow breaths, my right leg under the motorcycle, the rear wheel spinning silently. The headlight illuminates the pouring rain and the trees frame the road ahead of me. The whole trip’s been beautiful until now. I’ve been just outside Moshi in the north of Tanzania, having ridden from Cape Town, around Lake Victoria, and now I’m returning. Kilimanjaro’s behind me, hidden by the black night. It’s a long way home with much more to experience, but I was thinking of an airplane seat. Kilimanjaro Airport isn’t too far away. The trip’s half over and I guess it’s quits, but it’s been worth it. This despite two unceremonious dismounts in Rwanda and Uganda to avoid oncoming trucks in the

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wrong lane. I smile when I recall the Rwandan school kids who helped me out of the ditch, setting my bike upright and shouting: “Chase him! Chase him!” But I eventually found a quieter road among the tea plantations, winding endlessly around 1 000 hills. At the end of that route, I swore I’d be back, because it was the greatest road I’ve ever ridden: 96km of perfectly cambered corners that turn in on each other like an epileptic python. That stretch alone is worth the many thousands of kilometres I rode to get there. Before that, along a dirt track just south of Lake Victoria, I wove between men pushing bicycles loaded with pineapples and I tasted the fruit, so sweet I thought my tongue would burst. That was worth it too. As were the visits I made to local schools as a guest of Mfuwe Lodge in the Luangwa Valley. The morning sun on my face as I descended Livingstonia Pass was also worth it, the orange light glittering on the water of Lake Malawi, or lanced by the fat baobab branches that festoon southern Tanzania’s valleys. Then there were the Maasai of Mara Naboisho in Kenya, who went out of their way to scrounge petrol for me and pushed my bike for hundreds of metres to tease what battery spark there was left into life. Even the rainstorms I rode through were invigorating. That’s the thing about motorcycling: the exposure to the elements, the relief of the sun on

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It was the greatest road I’ve ever ridden: 96km of perfectly cambered corners that turn in on each other like an epileptic python. your drenched body or the cooling rain on a hot day. Most of all, the warmth of people’s smiles. I guess that’s what gets me up and going again, groaning with pain, heading south along a precarious road with my broken ribs. There are plenty more smiles to be had. ACCOMMODATION Rubondo Island: http://rubondo.asiliaafrica.com Mara Naboisho: http://naboisho.asiliaafrica.com Mfuwe Lodge: http://www. bushcampcompany.com/mfuwe_ lodge.php

Clockwise, from top left: Swamped with homework. Biker convention near Fort Portal, Uganda. Maasi men of Mara Naboisho, Kenya. Ndali Crater Lake, Uganda.

HOT ON THE TRAIL British TV personality Henry Cole describes the adventure of riding through the dirt roads of the Kalahari Desert – despite a broken bike “Arriving in Kuruman is a journey I’ll remember forever. The temperature was in the high 30s and even though my Steve McQueen Desert Racer, powered by an old 650 Triumph engine, was beginning to suffer, I was in heaven,” says Cole of his 4 800km expedition from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Shunning modern machinery, he opted for a replica of the classic 1960s Desert Racer for this journey, which was being filmed for the Travel Channel’s World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides. He was ecstatic – about both the

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Clockwise, from left: Henry in front of Kloofzicht Lodge. Riding into to the distance. Henry taking a break next to his KTM 990. Henry’s beloved Desert Racer.

PHOTOGRAPHERS: NICK YELL. ANTON CRONE. TRAVEL CHANNEL

route and the bike. “The whole concept of my ride from Jo’burg to Cape Town via the Kalahari was to experience the real SA, its landscapes and its people off the tourist trail,” he says. However, no-one had ever ridden such a model before over such a great distance. Not even one-third of the way into the journey, the bike’s tyres began disintegrating on the rough tarmac and there was a

“The whole concept of my ride from Jo’burg to Cape Town via the Kalahari was to experience the real SA, its landscapes and its people off the tourist trail.” bad oil leak. On his first morning in Kuruman, with the heat of the day already intense, as he mounted his bike in the motel car park, the shock absorbers came off and his beloved Desert Racer gave in completely. “But, as ever, help was at hand. The owner of the motel lent us a bakkie to get the bike to a mechanic,” he recalls. Unfortunately, nothing could be

done for it. Cole had to leave his Desert Racer in Kuruman and find a modern replacement, the KTM 990 Adventure. Being able to continue his journey was a relief, though he couldn’t help shedding a few tears. After setting off again, the fresh air and stretches of road along the N14 cutting through tracts of red sand dunes, clusters of shrubs and acacia trees re-ignited

his happiness. “For the first time since leaving Jo’burg, I was getting what I’d come for: to be part of this incredible desert scenery, the loneliness and solitude of the Kalahari. As I passed through more remote areas, the scenery became more enthralling,” he says. He also found himself adapting to the conditions. “I didn’t wear leathers, as you can lose focus if you’re too hot. Instead, I opted for a long-sleeved T-shirt and jeans.” He also planned regular petrol and water stops, careful to avoid sunstroke, which can hit riders “like a drunk bloke in a lorry”. While Cole loved “the thrill of standing up on the pegs kilometre after kilometre”, soaking up the terrain and testing every bit of his offroad experience, he admits he owes a lot to the people in the region. “In the five weeks I was riding in SA, I never met anyone who wasn’t willing to help, greet us with a smile or welcome us with open arms. Without that, I’d never have made it to Cape Town.” – Jabulile Ngwenya

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Top: Having fun, oblivious to the rush. Above: Will she get to the platform in time to make it? Opposite: Speeding through the suburbs.

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The idea for Down the Line: A Photo Essay of the Train-line Between Cape Town and Simonstown (Calm in Storm) was first seeded in early 2008. Commissioned to shoot a housing project as part of an engineering company’s corporate responsibility programme, I was asked if I ever took pictures of Cape Town and its surrounds for my own pleasure. Embarrassingly, I said I didn’t – and received the response: “I suppose it’s difficult to be a prophet in your own city.” That statement has always stuck with me. The diversity and paradoxes of the Southern Line are glaring. The train runs through some of the most beautiful landand seascapes, yet many of its windows are too old to open, and are scratched and dirty, so passengers can’t view the splendours outside. Affluent travellers page through international travel guides while blind evangelical singers squeeze between commuters, hoping to hear coins dropping into their battered cups. Today 126 trains run the Southern Line daily between 28 stations, carrying up to 3,7 million passengers per month. This is less a glamorous interpretation of the benefits of the train commute and more an honest documentary of the experiences of those who depend on this important urban artery.

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Top: 4.43am – the first trains wait to get going. Above, left: Ticket controllers in their booths. Above, right: The morning’s first commuters. Opposite: Night shift security.

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Intact, the cable car is an efficient and polished machine transporting hundreds of tourists safely up and down Table Mountain daily. But what keeps it running? Gary Hirson goes backstage

ne can only imagine the amazement and awe of the first inhabitants of the Cape, and the settlers who came afterwards, on rounding Table Bay and first laying eyes on Table Mountain. Subject of myth and legend, this ancient massif has been a symbol of Cape Town ever since. Before 1929, the only way to get up the 1km-high city guardian was by way of a dangerous climb. In 1926 a cableway to the top was proposed and in 1929 (a relatively short while later, for such an innovative project), the then Mayor of Cape Town

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officially opened and rode in the first cable car to the top. Since that day, millions have experienced the same journey – barring me. I’ve summited Table Mountain many times on foot, but never by cable car. Being something of a control freak and afraid of heights, the thought of being enclosed in a suspended, rotating pod doesn’t bode well for my issues. It’s mid-winter and I’m enjoying my early-morning hike along Tafelberg Rd, which runs parallel to the lower station of the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC). While enjoying

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the solitude that this early hour brings, I’m suddenly confronted by a whining, crane-bearing truck. Heavy machinery and two hefty rolls of cable block my path as a sizeable group of workers huddle together, discussing the day’s schedule. Andries de Vries, who introduces himself as TMACC’s Technical Manager, tells me that today is the first day of the annual maintenance shut-down. “I’m sure you feel the need to be safe when you ride in the carriages to the top – and we’re seeing to it that you are,” he adds. “Actually, I’ve never ridden in the cable car,” I admit. “I’m not that trusting.” Andries raises an eyebrow. “There’s not much I can do about your fear of heights, but I’m sure I can alleviate your trust issues, if you’ll indulge me,” he says. He tells me that, depending on the kind of maintenance required, the cableway company shuts down every winter for a mimimum of two weeks. “This year we’re closed for five weeks because of major overhauls and installations. All maintenance schedules are aligned with the most stringent Swiss standards, known as the BAV code for cableways and recognised worldwide. “Swiss engineers come out as schedules require for these mechanical and electrical shut-downs and do tests, according to the code. This year they’re here to oversee the ‘heel’ rope replacement, which is one of the ropes that pull the carriages up and down the guide ropes. This has to be done every four to six years, according to stringent safety standards. “In addition to this, both carriages will be overhauled, tested and fitted with new

Clockwise, from opposite top: Cumbersome and time-consuming, a piece of equipment is perfectly manoeuvred into place. A harnessed engineer tightrope-walks inspecting the “rope”. The massive hanging apparatus is inspected, checked and re-checked. The old rope gets replaced with the new one. A local technician goes about his tasks.

“There’s not much I can do about your fear of heights, but I’m sure I can alleviate your trust issues, if you’ll indulge me.” parts, if required,” Andries says. “Did you say ‘ropes’?” I ask apprehensively. “That’s what we call all the operating cables,” he responds. He leads me to one of the carriages, which has been lowered from those “ropes” and is perched on a scaffolding frame. Tools, cables, nuts, bolts, winches and clamps are spread out everywhere in an organised fashion. Looking up, my stomach tumbles as I witness one of the engineers walking a tightrope along one of the guide cables. Checking this and tinkering with that, the Swiss acrobat seems comfortable with his head in the clouds. “So besides the Swiss experts, who obviously can’t be here all year

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round, who else ensures everything runs smoothly?” I ask. Andries leads me indoors, where a group of artisans are inspecting, filing, polishing and cleaning what look like pieces from the dismantled carriage. “Teams of local fitters, electricians and their assistants maintain and check daily, weekly and monthly, according to schedules set out by the BAV code. This is internally audited on a monthly basis so that we retain our International Standard of Operation certificate. This includes seemingly minor things like checking for rust, which is performed with the same due diligence that would be expected if we were doing a carriage overhaul or a rope change,” he says. I’m warming to the idea of this hyperClockwise, from above: Silently and safely the rotating pod glides tourists up and down the mountain. Swiss perfection – one performs the task while another inspects in the background. It’s all about the cables, or “ropes”, for those in the know. Like something out of a sci-fi movie, two mechanical arms lower the “rope” from the bed of a truck.

vigilant and rigorous safety protocol which ensures that over 21 million tourists, and counting, have been safely transported up and down the mountain over the past 82 years. “But there’s still man management needed in the case of an emergency,” Andries adds, almost reading my mind. “Both our cabins are manned by fully trained first aid and rescue personnel, who are Cabin Master-certified.” He allows me to wander around and I take in the scale of the operation. Engineers are inspecting the massive apparatus from which the carriages hang. Nearby, a pair of local technicians apply grease to a section of springs, while above me more personnel are manually jacking up the massive carriages. There’s

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an air of confident professionalism in these highly trained technicians going about their tasks. “As I’m sure you’re aware, we’ve been voted one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature,” Andries announces. “We’re all for responsible and eco-friendly tourism, but safety’s key. If we were thought to be unsafe, people wouldn’t even consider going up the mountain by carriage. Having over 800 000 trusting tourists journeying safely up the mountain annually speaks volumes in itself.” I look up at the Swiss engineer-cumtrapeze artist, who’s now confidently perched on the cable, silhouetted by the dramatic backdrop of the mountain. I realise that it just might be time to confront one of my fears.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GARY HIRSON

“Having over 800 000 trusting tourists journeying safely up the mountain annually speaks volumes in itself.”

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10 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF Highly successful people have a vocabulary based on positive things. So ask yourself the following empowering, possibilitycreating questions: 1. What am I happy about? 2. What am I excited about? 3. What am I proud of? 4. Who do I love? 5. Who loves me? 6. What am I truly grateful for? 7. Am I being the best version of myself? 8. How can I turn this around? 9. How can I learn from this? 10. Who have I helped today?

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WILL OUR WINELANDS WEATHER THE CHANGE?

South African Tim James took the title at the inaugural Wine Writer of the Year competition, held by Du Toitskloof Wines in association with Standard Bank. His winning entry investigates the consequences of climate change for the South African wine industry

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n the slopes of the Skurfberg, Basie van Lill’s vineyards endure the summer. The graperipening season is often brutal on this rough mountainside between Clanwilliam and the Atlantic, far north of Cape wine’s historic heartland, but most years the vines triumph and a few renowned wines are made from their hard-won grapes. Wine farmers in Stellenbosch – even more in cooler Constantia and Elgin – would have difficulty imagining growing fine grapes in this implacable heat, without the luxury of irrigation and a miserably low rainfall the only source of water for the vines. Yet the unthinkable may have to be confronted before many decades have passed: chances are good that viticulture on the Skurfberg, already a marginal exercise, will become impossible and that areas like Stellenbosch will themselves move into the harsh zone of marginality. The Earth’s climate is changing as its surface temperature rises and the Cape winelands will share the consequences. In their 2008 Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, provincial government authorities noted that there’s “little doubt that the Western Cape will face some degree of climate change, which is expected to be evident by as early as 2030”. While predictions for specific areas are impossible, change consequent upon global warming is the one overarching certainty to which Van Lill and other grape-farmers will have to respond as best they can. A recent paper by Lee Hannah and her colleagues in the Journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences reveals the intricacy of the research and calculation involved in forecasting future climate patterns. An array of approaches “driven by 17 global climate models” was deployed to geographically chart climatic shifts in wine-growing regions around the world. The resultant mapping of the Western Cape is, however, starkly clear in its implications. Large swathes of areas currently suitable for viticulture are marked as showing significantly decreased viability by midcentury: much of the West Coast (the Swartland and Olifants River regions), down through Paarl and Stellenbosch, as well as the Breede River Valley further inland.

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Scientists generally agree that, as SJE Midgley and E Lotze of Stellenbosch University suggest, mid-century climate projections for the region “include warming by 1-2°C, reductions in frontal autumn and winter rainfall and a contraction of the winter season”. The devil’s always in the details, and researchers can glimpse the flick of his forked tail. The Breede River’s long stretches of lush, heavy-bearing greenery produce a substantial proportion of SA’s wine (nearly 40% of the Cape’s vines are here). Water is their lifeblood – vast amounts of it, collected in dams which tap the flow of the river from the Ceres Valley down to the Indian Ocean. One academic investigation (by AC Steynor and others) states that “climate change will have a significant impact on run-off in the Breede River”. There could easily come a disastrous point where – given competition for increasingly precious water resources – copious vineyard irrigation in the Breede River Valley will become untenable, with water simply unavailable, or at least scarcer and made less economically viable through increased costs. Water shortage will be a crucial component of climate change’s effect on the Cape’s wine industry. Less rain and more droughts are likely to be accompanied by higher temperatures (both maximum and mean), perhaps encouraging vineyard pests. More heat waves can be expected in summer, hail and violent wind in winter. Shorter, warmer winters will affect quality by reducing the extent to which vines can enter proper dormancy for a useful period. More benign winters are also likely to have complex consequences for vine diseases. And will increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air be significant for vine physiology and growth? No-one seems sure. Responses to the challenges posed by climate change caused by humans must be governed by two imperatives: adaptation to changed conditions, and mitigation through reducing emissions of gases. SA’s substantial contribution to emissions of greenhouse gases is made primarily through industry and coal-fired power stations. Agriculture and the wine industry’s contribution is significant, however, both through its direct use of carbon-derived fuel and electricity, as well as through packaging (especially glass bottles) and transport. Mitigation moves are already underway, but will have to be undertaken with increasing urgency. In 2008 the local wine and fruit industry, according to the Confronting Climate Change website, “launched a study to enable SA growers and service providers to determine their carbon footprint and identify carbon hotspots with the objective of finding creative measures to reducing carbon emissions”. A few individual wineries have already gone far in this direction: in 2010, Backsberg in Paarl became the first South African winery to achieve carbon-neutral status by sequestrating its carbon emissions. Many estates are responding to threatened water scarcity by reducing winery consumption and recycling it, as well as switching from wasteful methods of irrigating vineyards, like overhead spraying, to less profligate ones. Further adaptation to the conditions brought about by climate change will involve radical transformation, more crucially affecting viticulture than work in the cellar. This is

Water shortage will be a crucial component of climate change’s effect on the Cape’s wine industry.

sustainability where those Skurfberg vines, producing fine wine in adverse conditions, might offer helpful clues. What can be learnt from such vineyards that might be relevant to areas adapting to a harsher climatic regime? At 30-50 years, many of the chenin blanc and semillon vines that grow there are old – by South African standards, at least. “These bush vines survive,” says viticulturist Rosa Kruger, “because they’re the right vines in the right place, properly cared for. Vines don’t like extremes and these have grown old because they’ve adapted, with extensive root systems and restricted vigour.” The vines’ adaptation is twofold. As older vines that had to struggle to become established, and were forced to send their roots down deep in search of moisture, they became relatively inured to the vicissitudes of harsh

extraordinary value certain vines within them might contain in their accumulated adaptations. Although the need’s growing for research to identify, isolate and promote such adaptations of important grape varieties to local warm, dry land conditions, it seems the academic branch of the industry isn’t yet taking that need sufficiently seriously. Once climate change is doing its worst, it might be too late. Choosing the right vines for the right place, as Kruger puts it, will be increasingly important in the warmer vineyards of the future. As the vineyards’ conditions change, so too, gradually, must the nature of plantings shift: as well as the genuinely indigenised grapes, varieties from Spain, Portugal, southern Italy and Sicily, themselves adapted to conditions of heat and drought, should become more commonly grown. Local wine-lovers (themselves adapting!) will come to recognise on local labels names now rare or non-existent: tempranillo, mascarello, nero d’Avola, touriga naçional and others. It could well be that, for example, pinot noir and chardonnay, as well as the best sauvignon blanc and cabernet sauvignon, will be increasingly confined to regions that remain comparatively cool (such as south coast areas like Elgin and the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley), rather than Stellenbosch. Gazing into the decades ahead, the details remain guesswork, but the broad pattern of likely change is clear. It’s worth noting, though, that in a real sense, there are two Cape wine industries: firstly, there’s the viniculture that produces large volumes of wine destined primarily for sale on supermarket shelves. Grown mostly on highyielding, irrigated vines in warm areas, this is sometimes called “industrial” wine. “Artisanal” wine, by contrast, attracts most attention from glass-swirling, aroma-sniffing critics. Commanding higher prices, it’s less dependent on high yields and large volumes for profitability. Boundaries between the two industries are blurred and they have much in common, but climate change in the winelands will affect them differently. The quality of wine now coming from Van Lill’s Skurfberg vines is extremely high, but the yields of vines suffering heat and drought are inevitably low, and only those that aren’t pushed to bear heavily have a good chance of survival. Such vineyards aren’t economically viable unless the grapes can command a good price – which, in turn, implies wine costing more than the supermarket shopper – whether in Johannesburg or Stockholm, Sweden – is willing to spend. There’ll always be a market for fine, characterful wines, albeit a limited one. Perhaps the wine industry needs to plan more carefully for the high-volume, low-margin wines which at present depend on threatened water supplies. “We’re sitting with gold in our old vineyards – vines adapted to our climate, our sun and our soils,” says Kruger. The soil is stable, but the climate’s shifting and our sun is more punishing. Times will become hard for many grape farmers in the Cape as the century moves on. It would be satisfying if one crucial tool for survival could be found within the Cape’s vineyards themselves; even more so if survival could also mean more distinctive, more authentically local wine.

seasons. But it’s likely that they represent a century or two of adaptation to local conditions. Can it be an accident that the oldest vineyards in the Cape – a few are 100 years old – are mostly planted to produce semillon, chenin blanc, palomino and muscat? These were among the earliest varieties grown after the Dutch planted the first vines at the foot of Africa in the 17th century, and they’ve had a continuing presence. For much of the 19th century, semillon was almost ubiquitous outside Constantia; in the 20th century, chenin blanc was by far the most planted variety. There’s no question that local adaptations occurred over the years, as the most suited vines survived best and were propagated by farmers, especially in the earlier years before stocks were generally supplied by commercial, dedicated nurseries. We know that a uniquely local version of semillon became widely established in all areas in the 19th century – the evidence is manifest in the red, rather than white grapes borne by the mutation (there are red and white versions intermingled in an old Skurfberg vineyard on a farm not far from Van Lill’s). Some years ago, leading viticulturist Francois Viljoen, Consultation Services Manager for producer organisation VinPro, first alerted me to the potential significance of old Cape vineyards – of many established varieties – and the

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Despite such views, the issue of mechanisation in mining – particularly in the African context – is regarded by some as a way of neutralising labour unrest and cutting costs. In truth, very little’s been done to drive mechanisation in SA’s mining sector, in part because our narrow reefs make the use of machines a challenge. Proponents of mechanisation, such as Rod Pickering from

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the Witwatersrand Centre for Mechanised Mining Systems, stress the productivity that could be achieved by embracing technology. As Pickering told CNBC Africa in an October 2013 interview, while coal operations and surface mining have seen mechanisation uptake, the sectors lagging behind are the narrow hard rock mines, typically gold, platinum and chrome. “In about 2000, we

were looking at about four million tons a year produced from mechanised mines. In the past 10 years, though, the introduction of appropriate technology and big changes in the way people are working have seen that ďŹ gure go up to about 45 million tons,â€? he said. However, Dixon explains that the infrastructure mines are laying down is also contributing to the drop

in productivity. While shafts used to be built 1,5km apart in order to optimise the productive use of drill operators’ time, today – “due to short-termism� – mines are placing shafts 2,5-3km apart. “Then they complain about productivity when the drill operators are spending more time getting to the working face,� says Dixon. “They say productivity has gone down, while the wages have gone

up. But that’s not the drill operators’ fault: they’ll do an honest day’s work if you give them a fair chance.� Dixon says that as a result of poor mining planning, the 7,22-hour working day of a rock drill operator is now only yielding about three to four productive hours. The companies which haven’t been affected by this are those that have adopted a long-term, strategic approach.

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BEFORE YOU BUY‌ Your ďŹ rst step towards becoming a landlord, says Seeff, is to take a long, hard look at the area you want to buy in, as this is a crucial factor in a property’s desirability. It’s not only the area’s geographical location you need to consider, but also its demographics. “For example, if you want to buy in a

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CONSIDERING CORPORATES According to Shaun Groves, Rental Manager at Pam Golding Properties, there’s another market sector to consider as tenants: expatriates who’ve relocated to SA as part of their work commitments. In fact, Groves notes that the company’s experiencing “exceptional demand” from these corporate clients. They present a potentially lucrative market, not only because they’re usually executives seeking long-term rentals of one to three years, but also because the conditions of the Consumer Protection Act don’t apply in such cases – in other words, the rental term is guaranteed and there’s no right to cancel. Groves says corporate rentals may deliver returns of as much as 10%. So what are these tenants looking for? Proximity to the workplace is essential, which is why suburbs close to Sandton’s CBD in Johannesburg are taking off. Morningside, Parkmore and Sandown are the obvious choices, but areas like Bryanston, Westcliff, the Parks, Saxonwold, Dainfern,

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to be close to schools and Fourways Gardens and Cedar shopping centres. Lakes are also getting their fair Groves warns that although the share of interest. temptation to charge extremely Although Seeff believes it’s high rates for such properties may seldom worthwhile spending be strong, these organisations thousands of rands on renovations are looking to make smart, savvy or improvements, as this won’t THE investments. That means they’ll do much to help you secure instantly turn down places with higher rentals, the opposite BEST WAY outrageous rentals. applies to buyers TO AVOID Both he and Seeff agree targeting the executive COMPLICATIONS IS that the best way to market. For these such complications people, comfortable BY APPROACHING avoid is by approaching a furnishings are a A PROFESSIONAL professional agent who major plus, while can help you determine a security’s nonAGENT WHO fair rate; one that protects negotiable – not only CAN HELP YOU your asset while profiting in terms of alarms, but you. This will also ensure that also in armed response DETERMINE A your property’s on the radar services and beams. Most FAIR RATE. for multi-national companies, corporates will think twice who prefer doing business through before renting a property that a reputable agent. has a neighbouring empty plot. “There are so many nuances These tenants also appreciate that come into play with rental amenities like swimming pools and accommodation, from legislative underfloor heating. issues to vetting tenants, that what Because they usually relocate should be a burgeoning investment en famille, they’re seeking can quickly turn into a burden larger properties with three to unless you have professional four bedrooms, as well as en assistance,” says Seeff. suite bathrooms, and they prefer

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Set up camp with this family-size K-Way FourPerson Tent (R1 599), which comes with a skylight and mozzie net.

Prepare anything from coffee to potjiekos using the Kovea Scout Piezo Stove (R450).

Don’t leave home without a Leatherman Charge ALX Black (R2 499) – even Bear Grylls wants one!

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Catch the adrenaline-packed performances of 40 of the world’s top action sports stars, including freestyle motocross, BMX and skateboarding tricks from 12m in the air over a 23m gap, in Nitro Circus Live at the Cape Town Stadium (15 February), the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban (19 February) and Jo’burg’s FNB Stadium (22 February). www.nitrocircuslive.com

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culture By Daniella Renzon

Human rights theatre It’s 1997 at Pretoria’s Central Prison and psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is interviewing the apartheid regime’s Eugene de Kock, dubbed “Prime Evil� for his role as head of the country’s death squads and now serving a 212-year sentence for a myriad of crimes against humanity. In an attempt to understand his actions, Gobodo-Madikizela wrote the Alan Paton Award-winning book, A Human Being Died That Night (Mariner Books), which has now been transcribed into a powerful play. It will run at Cape Town’s Fugard Theatre from 20 February-15 March before heading to Johannesburg’s Market Theatre.

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Local maverick ďŹ lmmaker and winner of the 2014 National Arts Festival Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Film, Jahmil XT Qubeka, is “passionate about the genesis of humanity – where we truly come from, why we’re the way we are and where we’re goingâ€?. His documentary on HIV/Aids, Talk to Me, won ďŹ ve prestigious international awards, including the Rose D’Or (for social awareness). His other ďŹ lms, uMalusi, A Small Town Called Descent and Of Good Report, have been screened in the USA, Europe, some cities in Africa, South Korea and Mumbai. Now signed with a UK agent, Jahmil’s in the process of reading and writing new scripts. His aim is to make 50 ďŹ lms before he dies.

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Many believe that ballerinas are stronger than rugby players – in which case you shouldn’t miss the Biennial South African International Ballet Competition at Cape Town’s Artscape Theatre from 18-22 February, which offers a substantial monetary prize. Stellar ballerinas from SA, Cuba, South Korea and other parts of the world will display their awesome talents. www.computicket.com February 2014 Sawubona 127

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f sheer all-pervasiveness is anything to go by, SA is the global capital of house music. Spreading out of Chicago, USA since the late Eighties, the onceunderground sound is now very much the backbone of this country’s listening culture and is voraciously consumed on the streets, in shebeens, in minibus taxis and fancy cars. DeďŹ ned by its melodic rhythms and tripping beats, as well as soulstirring vocals, it’s designed to get

toes tapping – the sort of infectious beat that compels relentless dancing. While it’s a big industry with massive listenership, much of it’s literally produced in township garages. For many youngsters, DJing represents a path to success and recognition. With the demise of CDs and the rise of online and digital resources, access to mixing technology has ourished, opening opportunities for homegrown production. This isn’t necessarily congruent with earning potential,

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however. Internet downloads mean album sales have dropped, so most artists need to attract audiences to live gigs if they want to build a career. Sharing the bill with international superstars Tiësto and Nicky Romero at this month’s Ultra electronic music festival is DJ/ producer Black Coffee, currently the most respected name in local house music. He ascribes our love of the genre to the fact that South Africans grow up with soulful

Clockwise, from top left: An electronic dance music crowd. Durban kwaito ensemble Big Nuz. Spoek Mathambo. DJ Black Coffee.

music, suggesting it’s a rhythm that’s in our DNA. Listen to the likes of Durbanbased kwaai-house group, Big Nuz, and the conflagration of rudimentary kwaito lyrics and hypnotic house beats suggests just how closely the two genres are related. The throbbing bass is there, but with greater international appeal, meaning bigger reach, and opportunities for export. Another key music influencer is electronic cut-up artist Spoek

Mathambo. A regular act at parties around the world, he believes SA’s dance music tastes are the intersection of our multicultural history and the fact that we’re globally wired. “There’s no point looking for any specifically ‘South African’ sound,” says Mathambo. “Influences come from everywhere now.” Known for a genre mash-up style he calls Afro-futurism, or “township-tech”, Mathambo draws eclectically from existing sources to create a wildly layered electronic sound. From Sixties South African jazz and Nineties hip-hop to soul, traditional music, British pop and R&B, his high-energy music references Queen and the Pixies, but you’ll hear township and African beats there too. Technology gives him the tools to reinvent traditional rhythms such as Zulu maskandi, making it relevant in an urban dance environment. Like Black Coffee, he’s created a groove that’s uncompromisingly African, yet able to fill dance floors anywhere in the world. www.ultrasouthafrica.com

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From top, left: Katlego Mlambo and Lerato Kganyago. Sheila and Blackie Tempi. Ninkobe. Chisa nyama.

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From top, left: Workers at Nomzamo Butchery, Langa. Mpumi and cousins at Waka restaurant, Langa. Home-made ginger beer. A sheep’s liver vendor, Langa.

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TREASURE CHEST The story of a hidden gem

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hen a 2,5-ton concrete cask was lowered into the ocean at Cape Agulhas in 2010, bystanders may have been rather suspicious. But 15 months later, what was actually a submersible wine cellar was hoisted out and the contents revealed. This was no ordinary treasure – it was Hidden Valley Wines’ limited-release Shipwreck Shiraz 2009. The idea came to Dave Hidden, owner of Hidden Valley Wines, after visiting Cape Agulhas. He already owned a grape farm in Elim and decided to mature the wine right there, instead of taking it to the cellars in Stellenbosch.

Inspired by how Scottish whiskymakers leave their maturation barrels on the quayside, he consulted experts on how to make the sea an integral part of the winemaking process by creating a unique maritime maturation cellar. “Superior red wines need to be oakmatured at consistent temperatures and humidity,â€? says Dave. “Underwater at Cape Agulhas is an ideal, natural environment: the temperature’s consistently around 13ÂşC and the humidity is constant.’ The challenge was the barrel. It had to withstand high pressure, not be contaminated by seawater, be safe from opportunistic marine poachers and not be submerged by sand.

The result? “A 225-litre strengthened French oak barrique entombed in a reinforced concrete cask, into which holes were designed to allow seawater to enter, circulate and permeate the oak.� As an extra precaution, a great white shark-breeding area was chosen as the location to deter poachers! The Shipwrecked Shiraz 2009 sells at R900 per bottle.

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Above: Daryl during stage 17 of the 2013 Tour de France. Below: Daryl wearing the leader’s yellow jersey in stage six of the 2013 Tour de France.

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FIFTH Overall: Eneco Tour. FIFTH: Vuelta a La Rioja. FIRST: Stage 4 and holder of Overall Yellow Jersey from Stages 6-7 of the Tour de France.

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AFRICA OPEN: HOME BOYS RULE Š‹• Â?‘Â?–Š –Š‡ ‹Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ ‰‘Žˆ •’‘–Ž‹‰Š– ˆƒŽŽ• ‘Â? –Š‡ ƒ•–‡”Â? ÂƒÂ’Â‡ÇĄ ™Š‡Â? –Š‡ ’”‡•–‹‰‹‘—• ˆ”‹…ƒ ’‡Â? ‰‡–• —Â?†‡”™ƒ›Ǥ By Herman Gibbs

Top: Twelfth fairway at the East London Golf Club. Above: Darren Fichardt.

Since its inception in 2008, all the winners of this Sunshine Tour/ European Tour co-sanctioned event have been South Africans. The East London Golf Club will host the event. Its traditional course layout is set among hills, dunes and coastal indigenous bush, making for a combination of links and parkland features. The event tees off on 13 February, with the ďŹ rst round of 156 golfers and R14 million in prize money. The competition will be decided over 72 holes, ending on 16 February. Winners to date are: Shaun

Norris (2008), Retief Goosen (2009), Charl Schwartzel (2010), Louis Oosthuizen (2011 and 2012 ) and Darren Fichardt (2013). South Africans have also notched up notable ďŹ rsts at Africa Open. The 2008 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner, Richard Sterne, carded 61 – the course record – in the third round of the 2009 event. Branden Grace, the 2012 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner, scored the most eagles (ďŹ ve) at a single event and Dawie van der Walt achieved the most consecutive birdies (six) in a single round.

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13” APPLE MACBOOK PRO WITH RETINA DISPLAY Intel’s fourth-generation “Core” processors (better known by the code name “Haswell”) have been a revelation in notebook design. Read the technical documentation and you’ll see that they offer increased processing efficiency in a lower power and heat envelope. That means notebooks which are faster (and cooler) than ever before, with close to double the battery life and half the weight. However, none of the Haswell-powered notebooks out there come close to the new Retina 13” Apple Macbook Pros. Not only are they equipped with Intel’s new processor, meaning they’re fast and capable of about nine hours’ use between charges, but they’re equipped with Apple’s super-crisp, high-resolution Retina display and the fastest solid-state disks available today. Price: From R17 000

HUAWEI E5776 PORTABLE LTE ROUTER If you’re considering connectivity from one of the mobile networks, you have to look at LTE, essentially the fourth generation of cellular data technology. There’s a limited number of data-only devices and most require a wall plug or attach to a notebook. Enter the Huawei E6776, a hockey puck-sized, batteryoperated LTE router. It has a frequency spread that works with all the country’s networks (each one has its LTE band in a different spectrum), so you can chop and change according to the best tariff. Its battery lasts upwards of four hours and its Wi-Fi radio can service up to 10 devices simultaneously. Price: From R3 000

SONY ICD-TX50 They might seem a bit retro, but dictaphones are still a mainstay of many business people because they eliminate the need for note-taking in meetings. However, they’ve evolved a lot: today’s models use flash memory, rather than tapes and – in some cases – integrate with dictation software to facilitate the transcription of notes into text. Sony’s ICD-TX50 is a digital recorder which looks so good that you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a smartphone or iPod-type music-player. It weighs a mere 50g, has a crisp electronic display and gives the user a choice of MP3 or PCM recording formats. Add to this a 4GB memory capacity and a 24-hour battery life, and it’s a seriously appealing gadget. Price: From R1 600

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LG G2 Android is the smartphone operating system of choice, probably because there are far more applications available for it than for any other current operating system. There’s also a wider variety of brands to choose from. That said, Samsung is the gorilla everyone’s trying to knock out of its tree – and LG’s G2 might just succeed in doing so. For starters, it’s packed with the best hardware available today: a fast Snapdragon 800 processor, a 5,2” full HD screen and a 13-megapixel camera. What sets the G2 apart, however, is its battery, a 3 000mAh silicon anode unit (an evolution of the Li-ion batteries being used today) that’s built up like a Lego set in the G2’s curved-back compartment, making optimal use of what would have been wasted space. The result is an uncompromising smartphone with an astounding battery. Perfect! Price: From R7 000

SPIDERMONKEY The biggest bugbear of being a business person with a technology addiction is charging and topping up your menagerie of devices when you’re on the road. There’s never enough available spaces in today’s wall plugs – and every device comes with a different charger. Enter the Spidermonkey, a low-fi, but very useful solution to the dilemma from those smart folks at Powertraveller. It uses an external power brick for its own independent power supply and allows you to charge four devices simultaneously. Two of its ports are specifically designed for Apple devices and use self-sensing technology to figure out the optimal power configuration for them. The other two ports deliver a consistent power level for any 5V USB device. Price: From R450

LENOVO YOGA TAB 8” While tablets haven’t quite managed to unseat the notebook computer’s dominance in the workplace, they’ve become essential companion devices in the business person’s technology arsenal. While designed for the consumer, Lenovo’s new 8” Yoga Tab is everything an executive could want in a device. It’s small, thin and great-looking. Its battery life is an epic 14 hours (about double what’s on offer from some competitors). However, its party piece is its sausage-roll battery, which runs down the underside of the tablet, making it more comfortable to hold for extended periods. Used in concert with Yoga’s foldaway “kickstand”, the tablet can be positioned perfectly for comfortable typing or video-watching. Price: R3 700

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The Toyota Land Cruiser Prado has been tried and tested on local terrain, so we took it across the border to see how it would fare on the Namibian dunes. By Mzo Witbooi

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s we touch down at Walvis Bay airport, I’m still amazed at the aerial view I’ve had of the Namib Desert’s undulating waves of gold. I was last here a few years ago, when I spotted some of the intriguing species endemic to the region, including the palmato gecko and the sidewinder. But this time we’re here on a different mission: to test the 2014 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado’s prowess on sand.

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS As we exit the airport terminal, 10 or more brand-new Prados – with engines idling and air-cons at full blast – are lined up for us to drive ourselves to the Protea Hotel Pelican Bay. The exterior updates in the 2014 model are easy to spot: the rear lamps have cleaner lenses and red accents, while the front grille looks much bolder. As a contemporary touch, the headlights have integrated LED daytime running lights.

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diplomatic peacekeepers in a war-torn zone, the sleepy town of Walvis Bay is supremely peaceful. At the hotel, we take a few minutes to refresh before heading out to the desert. It’s already late afternoon, so we only climb a few dunes to get a taste of what the next day holds in store for us. A few cars get stuck in the sand, but our recovery vehicle – a Land Cruiser 70 Series double cab – is up to the challenge.

threatens to curtail our excursion: it’s an extremely steep decline that feels more like a nose-dive from inside the vehicle. As we reach the bottom, we have to go full throttle on the accelerator, hoping the momentum will carry us to the top of the long dune. However, motoring journos are a competitive bunch and even those who’ve never been offroading before are doing exceptionally well – admittedly, with the guidance of 4x4 trainers. While the Land Cruiser Prado’s offroading prowess has never been in question on South African terrain, the sand-bashing experience proves that you can

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PRICES While the interior feels refined > Land Cruiser and classy, it still looks somewhat Prado TX 4.0 V6 conservative. However, the good Auto: R632 200. news is that leather upholstery > TX 3.0 DT comes standard on both the modest Auto: R642 000. TX and the range-topping VX 8 VX 4.0 V6 models. In the latter, you get the Auto: R728 200. option of an ivory colour palette > VX 3.0 DT Auto: R732 400. in addition to the standard black. > VX 4.0 V6 The VX also offers seat heating and Auto (Sunroof): independent temperature settings in R738 200. the second row. > VX 3.0 DT Although our snaking convoy Auto (with sunroof): resembles a cavalcade of R742 400.

The next morning, we enjoy a leisurely breakfast before embarking on a gruelling drive along Sandwich Harbour on the shoreline. The trick of driving on sand – as I learnt during past 4x4 training – is to keep the momentum and drive as closely as possible in the tracks of the car in front of you. But before we can marvel on the breathtaking scenery and towering dunes, we have to navigate scores of rotting seal carcasses. A Walvis Bay local later informs us that the creatures have succumbed to starvation, due to dwindling fish in the sea, but I’ll leave that discussion to the environmentalists. Soon after leaving the shore, the battle between technology and nature begins. We stop to watch a Prado that left the convoy being dug out of the sand, where it’s been beached. Several more such incidents are to follow, all of them because of driver failure. The worst of the sand-bashing challenges

take the monster almost anywhere on the continent. Its manufacturers assure us that Prado was designed to offer peace of mind both on the boulevard and in the bush. Functionalities such as Blind Spot Monitoring and Tyre Inflation Warning on the VX, as well as Trailer Sway Control (on both models), are a massive boost to the Prado. The VX models also boast a rear differential lock and Crawl Control (which we first sampled in the updated Land Cruiser FJ) – a low-speed, offroad cruise control system.

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This month’s top reads

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The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison (HarperCollins) The author of one of my favourite recent works, A Walk Across the Sun, Addison didn’t disappoint me with his latest novel, which is set in Zambia, where a Down’s syndrome girl is raped. Told through the eyes of Zoe Fleming, an American human rights lawyer working in Lusaka, the narrative does tend towards stereotypes – corrupt government ofďŹ cials, good and bad cops, prostitutes and drug dealers. Nevertheless, Addison tackles the real issues of HIV/Aids, child abuse, racism and sexism realistically and respectfully. – Ingrid Wood Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela by Danny Schechter (Jacana) Numerous books have been written about SA’s beloved late former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. This one recounts 26 stories – both familiar and unknown – of interactions with key ďŹ gures in Madiba’s life. Schechter interviews individuals who offer insights into the great man as a visionary, father, husband, prisoner, president and friend. These stories are arranged alphabetically, each letter describing a particular personality trait. An easy, accessible read. The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell by Simon Pearson (Hodder & Stoughton) Bushell had an insatiable love for life that his mother nurtured during his babyhood and which instilled in him a powerful sense of invincibility. Born in SA, he emigrated to the UK as a teenager, where he freely indulged his passions for wine, women, song – and war. When England declared war on Nazi Germany in 1940, Bushell served as the commanding ofďŹ cer of 92 Squadron. After being shot down and taken captive, he escaped an incredible three times, until

Hitler ordered his execution. Pearson’s well-researched biography is an inspiring tale. A Rumour of Spring: South Africa After 20 Years of Democracy by Max du Preez (Random House Struik) Rumour has it that SA’s on the verge of a Mzansi Spring. Du Preez asks: “Are all rumours of a spring false? Will there be no mass uprising, but also no new dawn, just a muddling along, treading water?â€? The book analyses the achievements and failures of the post-apartheid ANC government in simple, but succinct manner as Du Preez deconstructs speeches, events, court cases and trends. Is he honest? Yes. Is he unbalanced? Perhaps. Nonetheless, this is the perfect time to reect, after 20 years of democracy. Of Madiba, he writes: “To me, Mandela [was] living proof that good can prevail over evil; that there actually is something like a shared humanity. We’d better believe in that in years to come.â€? – Vuyokazi Mnyengeza

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ONE FOR THE COFFEE TABLE The Black Photo Album/Look at Me: 18901950 (Steidl) by Santu Mofokeng This collection of Victorian-style, black and white studies taken by Sowetan photographer and artist Santu Mofokeng depicts black working- and middleclass families of the Fifties, one decade into the apartheid regime. These images challenge former Prime Minister JBM Hertzog’s infamous declaration that a worker’s civilisation is only skin-deep. “Look at me” are the opening words of the book, inviting you to scrutinise the subjects and ponder their stories. A collector’s item, the book was shortlisted for the Paris Photo Book Award. – Daniella Renzon

ONE FOR THE KIDS City Cat by Kate Banks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) It’s always great when a book comes along that you can read to your children and enjoy as much as they do. This delightful offering, with lyrical prose and colourful, evocative illustrations by Lauren Castillo, tells the tale of a cat which travels eight cities in six European countries, mirroring the travels of a family whose own journey starts in Rome. Purr-fect entertainment!

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they see buck. In our heads, we’re normally shouting “Next!” after five minutes, while tourists look on in awe – possibly because the scariest animals they’ve ever seen are locals down at the pub necking back lagers. During game drives, the drone and sway of the 4x4 rocks me into a trancelike reverie, which I snap out of when someone asks a question like: “Are giraffes carnivorous?” For most visitors, it must feel as alien and thrilling as a ride through Jurassic Park. Last year in Jo’burg, a spate of creatures escaped: two lavender albino pet pythons in Sandton, a wild hyena spotted having a nap at the Randburg Civic Centre and a male baboon on the loose in the northern suburbs, assumed to have busted its way out of the Cradle of Humankind. A friend who lives in the area got an SMS from her local security service that read: “Adult male baboon spotted in Lonehill! Do not approach, feed or try to catch him. We are monitoring his

movements.” In any other country, there’d be fear – perhaps even a bout of staying indoors. The response from locals? Laughter. On a continent where a tiny little insect, the mosquito, can give you a lethal dose of malaria, it takes quite something to trigger fear. Mine is normally triggered by Luna, our pretty, sleek black cat. Make the wrong move and she goes Full Feral, scratching and biting, then glares at you as though you’ve screwed up her day. Messing with her is like getting out of your car in a game park… Just. Don’t. Do. It.

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WELCOME ON BOARD Sawubona... Welcome on board and thank you for flying South African Airways (SAA). We promise to do everything possible to ensure that you have an enjoyable flight. The Welcome to our World section is carefully put together so that your in-flight experience is a comfortable one. Should you be unable to find what you are looking for in this section, or simply need more information, please contact our friendly cabin crew members for assistance. 160 Crew talk

174 Maps and routes

162 In-flight entertainment

184 Our fleet

168 Voyager loyalty programme news

186 Customs information 188 In-flight comfort

170 Meet our global alliance partners

190 Safety and security

172 Flight timetables

194 Air travel tips: Beating flight fatigue

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VIDEO SELECTION AIRBUS A340-200

THE MOVIE LINE-UP ON THE A340-200S IS PARTLY REFRESHED EVERY MONTH AND CONSISTS OF A COMBINATION OF BLOCKBUSTERS AND CLASSIC CHOICES INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS

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provides you with the ďŹ nest in-ight entertainment. The line-up available on the various aircraft types in the SAA eet is in the +) $# in-ight magazine and a separate in-ight entertainment guide called &' % , which you can ďŹ nd in the seat pocket on dedicated ights. +) $# gives you the best blockbusters, short features and audio selection for our

domestic, regional and international destinations on the Airbus A340-200, Airbus A319-100 and Boeing B737-800 aircraft. &' % gives you the line-up for our in-ight entertainment on Airbus A340600, Airbus A340-300e and Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The accurate line-up is also reected on screen when switching on the system on these aircraft. Enjoy the show!

ECONOMY CLASS MAIN SCREEN MOVIES OUTBOUND FROM SOUTH AFRICA The ďŹ rst movie is a blockbuster and the second/third movie is a classic choice. Movies are carefully screened to ensure suitability for all audiences.

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Blockbuster) * #()& #( ', - " # - ( # ) # ! ' & # $& & $&! continues the adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and the Nine Realms from an enemy that predates the universe.

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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (Classic Choice) $" , - " # - ( - # ! ' &" # - ) #

!! , British retirees travel to India to stay in a hotel that’s less luxurious than its advertisements suggest. However, the establishment slowly begins to enchant its guests in unexpected ways.

INKHEART (Classic Choice) * #()& " !, - " # - - # ! ' ( # % # ' A young girl discovers that her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all.

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GRAVITY (Blockbuster) $ $

! $ A medical engineer and an astronaut are left tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into space after their shuttle is destroyed.

SIDEWAYS (Classic Choice) # $ $ ! $ $ " !! Two old buddies set off on a winetasting road trip, only to veer dizzily sideways into an exploration of the crazy vicissitudes of love, loyalty and friendship.

OUTBOUND FROM SOUTH AFRICA (scheduled after the movie)

Miranda: Three Little Words Gary’s preparing for the re-opening of 4(% 2%34!52!.4 544).' /. ()3 "%34 #(%& whites, he’s never looked so attractive to Miranda. Stevie tries to persuade her to say what she feels, but can she bring herself to utter those three little words?

Iconoclast: Charlize Theron and Jane Goodall Each episode pairs two creative visionaries who discuss their lives, inuences and art. Most of the two people featured in each episode are long-time friends.

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Goodwood Speed Festival: Episode 1 The Festival of Speed is the largest motoring garden party in the world – a unique summer weekend that brings together an impossibly heady mix of cars, stars and motorsport royalty to create the largest car culture event on the planet.

Shoreline: Wild Coast to Kosi Bay A selection of the stories covered in the original episodes 9-13. We end our shoreline journey at the border of Mozambique.

OTHER SELECTIONS Airbus A340-600/300 and 200 GAMES: = .)-!, !#4/29 = ,!#+ !#+ = !6%-!. = (%33 = ,%0(!.4 %-/29 = .6!3)/. = /+%2 = (!.'(!) = ,/4 !#().% = /,#!.)8 JOYFUL NOISE (Classic Choice) # " $ $ ! $ ! GG Sparrow faces off with her choir’s newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group’s direction as they head into a national competition.

AIRSHOW: Highresolution maps linked to the aircraft’s navigation system that provide up-to-date route information.

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AIRBUS A319 & BOEING B737-800 REGIONAL COTONOU FLIGHTS SHORT PROGRAMMING * ,$ + ) + %'-! 3 ,+ ',& )'% ',+ )! +' '!&+ '!) 3 ,+ ',& )'% '!&+ '!) +' '+'&', 3 & ',& )'% '!&+ '!) +' '+'&', 3 & ',& )'% '!&+ '!) +' ',+ )! Featuring the best travel shows from Africa and around the globe, along with the very popular '( "$$"& entertainment and lifestyle programme. Each journey will include a selection of technology and gadget features, along with a bespoke SAA Diary Events feature programme

from all over SA for your enjoyment. Please note that different programming is screened on your outbound and inbound journeys. Programmes are updated weekly.

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INBOUND FROM COTONOU TO POINTE NOIRE (selection will be played subject to length of ight)

GRAVITY (Blockbuster) !)"$$ ) ) % 2 %"& 2 "+ 2 & $"*! )% & A medical engineer and an astronaut are left tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into space after their shuttle is destroyed. RUNNER, RUNNER )"% +!)"$$ ) 2 %"& 2 "+ 2 & $"*! ) & ! 2 & 1 # ,*+"& "% )$ # When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face encounter with the man he thinks cheated him – a sly offshore entrepreneur.

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IN AMERICA ) % 2 %"& 2 "+ 2 & $"*! ) & ! 2 % &+! ')+'& . '&*" "& With two young daughters in tow, Johnny and Sarah emigrate from Ireland to New York City in pursuit of a dream. The family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to make the most of their new life.

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IN AMERICA ' # / # $ / ) / $ " ( ' $ / # $) %')%$ - %$( $ With two young daughters in tow, Johnny and Sarah emigrate from Ireland to New York City in pursuit of a dream. The family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to make the most of their new life.

DOMESTIC FLIGHTS SAA offers in-ight entertainment on all domestic ights. This content is updated weekly and features a wide selection of programmes, including our travel and lifestyle shows "% ' !! ' and %$( plus a variety of techno and sports features.

Although programmes are subtitled, audio is active on all programmes and you are welcome to use your own headsets/ earphones. Please take note of the “Restricted Items� section contained within the Safety Guide section at the back of this ,* %$ magazine.

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AUDIO SELECTION

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– Channel 1 5 – Channel 1 Sit back and relax while enjoying the best of Cantonese and Mandarin pop for two blissful hours on SAA with great artists such as Stephanie Cheng, Jinny Ng, Sally Yeh, Vanessa Wu and many more. CLASSICS 5 # (Comfort Zone) 5 – Channel 5 – Channel 8 5

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NUMBER 1s 5 # (Encore) 5 – Channel 5 – Channel 5

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IN THE MIX 5 – Channel 5 – Channel 5

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PLAYLIST AFRICA 5 # (Showcase) 5 – Channel 5 – Channel 5 5

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SOUL SESSIONS 5 – Channel 15 5 – Channel 15 5

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STAR ALLIANCE LOUNGE FINDER

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tar Alliance is the world’s first and largest alliance, offering international travellers a unique network that brings 28 member airlines together to provide over 21 900 flights a day to over 1 328 destinations in more than 195 countries around the world. Planning your trip and want to relax in one of the lounges in our network? Use the Lounge Finder to browse through the entire Star Alliance lounge network and find lounges at specific airports. With over 1 000 lounges, worldwide lounge access is just part of the Star

Alliance commitment to making your journey as enjoyable as possible. Passengers travelling on international First Class or Business Class have access to the Star Alliance network, irrespective of membership status. The Lounge Finder includes all lounges operated by Star Alliance member carriers, all Star Alliance lounges (CDG, LAX, LHR, NGO, EZE) and all third-party lounges contracted by Star Alliance member carriers. Access rules are based on the Global Star Alliance Lounge Access Policy. For more information, visit: www.staralliance.com

Star Alliance has expanded its mobile device offering by introducing the customised Navigator to complement the existing iPad app. The hallmark of the new tool is an interactive 3D globe that visually depicts the 28-airline network of more than 21 900 daily flights covering 1 328 worldwide destinations. New to any Star Alliance web or mobile offering is the “My Trip” feature, which enables customers to store and monitor their Alliance flight itineraries and is only available on the Navigator iPad app. The app was created by SapientNitro and can now be downloaded via www.staralliance.com or directly from the App store.

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE WORLD’S LARGEST LOUNGE NETWORK AND OTHER BENEFITS OF STAR ALLIANCE GOLD STATUS: WWW.STARALLIANCE.COM STAR ALLIANCE MEMBERS

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SAA REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

BRINGING YOUR HOLIDAY DREAMS CLOSER

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Over the past 16 years, South African Travel Centre (SATC) has developed a significant footprint, with branches in the major commercial centres across SA, as well as Gaborone (Botswana), Maseru (Lesotho), Maputo (Mozambique), Mbabane (Swaziland) and Accra (Ghana). Through this extensive network of agencies, SATC is well positioned to offer clients the very best corporate and leisure travel products at competitive rates, as well as support to ensure travellers’ peace of mind. As memories of the festive season fade away, this is a good time to plan your next holiday. SAA

For world-class travel arrangements, contact your nearest South African Travel Centre agency on tel: 0861 007 747 or visit: www.satravelcentre.com

Holidays packages offer competitive travel options on our route network, with unrivalled expertise in providing superbly located hotels and a wide range of activities. Each of our proudly African agencies is equipped to provide you with this wide array of affordable packages to worldwide destinations. Booking these through SATC means you can enjoy the personal touch, service excellence and integrity to which clients have grown accustomed. SATC is truly a “one-stop shop” for all your holiday requirements, offering support and assistance in every aspect of your travel.

* SAA NON-STAR ALLIANCE CODE-SHARE PARTNERS

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OUR FLIGHTS SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS TIMETABLE HIGHLIGHTS DOMESTIC

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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS BOEING 737 FREIGHTER Number of aircraft 4. Maximum cargo capacity 18 000kg. Overall length 33m. Wing span 29m. Overall height 11,2m. Maximum fuel capacity 20 000O. Typical cruising speed 780km/h

AIRBUS A319-100 Number of aircraft 11. Maximum passengers 120. Overall length 33,84m. Wing span 34,09m. Overall height 11,76m. Maximum fuel capacity 23 860O. Typical cruising speed 820km/h

AIRBUS A320-200 Number of aircraft 5. Maximum passengers 148. Overall length 37,57m. Wing span 34,1m. Overall height 11m. Maximum fuel capacity 23 860O. Typical cruising speed 820km/h

BOEING 737-800 Number of aircraft 11. Maximum passengers 157. Overall length 39,5m. Wing span 34,3m. Overall height 12,5m. Maximum fuel capacity 26 035O. Typical cruising speed 809,5km/h

AIRBUS A330-200 Number of aircraft 6. Maximum passengers 222. Overall length 58,8m. Wing span 60,3m. Overall height 17,4m. Maximum fuel capacity 139 100O. Typical cruising speed 860km/h

AIRBUS A340-200 Number of aircraft 1. Maximum passengers 250. Overall length 59,4m. Wing span 60,3m. Overall height 16,7m. Maximum fuel capacity 155 040O. Typical cruising speed 870km/h

Number of aircraft 8. Maximum passengers 253. Overall length 73,6m. Wing span 60,3m. Overall height 16,7m. Maximum fuel capacity 141 500O. Typical cruising speed 860km/h

AIRBUS A340-600 Number of aircraft 9. Maximum passengers 317. Overall length 75,3m. Wing span 63,5m. Overall height 17,3m. Maximum fuel capacity 195 620O. Typical cruising speed 886km/h

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ENSURE YOUR ENTRY TO SOUTH AFRICA IS HASSLE-FREE CUSTOMS DUTY Customs duty is levied on imported goods and is usually calculated on the value of the goods.

PERSONS ENTERING SOUTH AFRICA People may enter South Africa at any appointed place of entry. All the goods in their possession must be declared to a customs official at the port of entry. When dutiable goods are in their possession, the relevant duties and VAT must be paid.

GOODS THAT MAY BE IMPORTED WITHOUT THE PAYMENT OF CUSTOMS DUTY AND VAT: (A) Visitors: Personal effects, sporting and recreational equipment, new or used, imported either as accompanied or unaccompanied baggage, for their own use during their stay in South Africa.

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be included in passengers’ baggage either by residents or non-residents, but not exceeding the following limits: 9 Wine: 2 litres per person. 9 Spirits and other alcoholic beverages: 1 litre per person. 9 Cigarettes: 200 cigarettes per person. 9 Cigars: 20 cigars per person. 9 Cigarette or pipe tobacco: 250g per person. 9 Perfume: 50ml per person. 9 Eau de toilette: 250ml per person. 9 Other new or used goods to a total value not exceeding R5 000 per person, excluding consumables. The limit for crew members is R700. 9 Allowances may not be pooled or transferred to other persons. Note: Visitors may be required to pay a cash deposit to cover duties and tax on expensive articles such as video cameras. The deposit on the goods is refunded on departure from South Africa.

CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE: 9 Children under 18 may claim duty-free allowances on goods used by them. 9 Children under 18 may not claim allowances for tobacco and alcohol. 9 Parents may make a customs declaration on behalf of their children.

Customs clearance procedures for passengers: 9 Passengers may select either the red or green channel upon arrival in South Africa. 9 By selecting the red channel, a passenger indicates that he/she has goods to declare. 9 The customs officer in the red channel must ascertain the value of the goods declared and the duties payable by the passenger’s duty-free allowances. 9 By selecting the green channel, a passenger indicates that he/she has no goods to declare. 9 Random searches of passengers and baggage in the green channel are conducted. The following goods are prohibited from import: Vegetables, groundnuts, firewood, honey, used pneumatic tyres, raw animal wool and hair, electric blankets, coins, video recorders and reproducers, revolvers and pistols. The following goods are prohibited from export unless special permits are obtained from the relevant government department: Human bodies or body parts; meat and edible portions from cattle, sheep, goats or pigs; meat and edible animal offal salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or offal; cane or beet sugar and chemicals; pure sucrose in solid form; raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split; bank notes, securities or foreign currency.

PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED IMPORTS AND EXPORTS: Apart from the requirements of the Export Control Regulations, the exportation and importation of a wide variety of goods is either totally prohibited or is subject to inspection by other authorities and/or production of special permits/licences, issued by certain authorities only. A comprehensive list of prohibited and restricted imports and exports is available on the South African Revenue Service website (www.sars.gov.za).

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OUR CABIN GUIDE SAWUBONA (“GREETINGS”) – AND THANK YOU FOR FLYING SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS! WE PROMISE TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ENSURE YOU HAVE AN ENJOYABLE FLIGHT. IN ORDER TO MAKE YOUR JOURNEY A PLEASANT ONE, PLEASE NOTE THE INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES

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IF YOU HAVE ANY QUERIES OR NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ONE OF OUR CABIN CREW MEMBERS.

in-flight comfort AIR VENTS ? Certain aircraft in our fleet have individual air vents which can be adjusted to provide you with a stream of fresh air. SPRAY ? Health regulations at certain airports require that the aircraft cabin be sprayed. The spray is harmless, but if you think it might affect you, please cover your nose and mouth with a handkerchief. MOTHERS AND CHILDREN ? For the convenience of mothers with babies, diaper boards are available in certain toilets on all our wide-bodied aircraft. ? Toys and games to keep the little ones occupied during international flights are available on request from our cabin crew members. ACHES AND PAINS ? Medical supplies for minor ailments are available on board. Ask a cabin crew member for assistance.

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FOR YOUR COMFORT ? Blankets and pillows are available. ? A variety of magazines and newspapers is at the disposal of Premium Class passengers on our international flights. ? Please lower your window shutter at night to ensure that you and your fellow passengers do not wake up a few hours later with the sun shining in your eyes. IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT ? Once cruising height has been reached, the cabin crew will switch on the entertainment system. If you are travelling on board the Airbus A340-600 or A430-300e, kindly refer to the Audio-Video on Demand system for the entertainment line-up. DUTY-FREE SALES ? Duty-free articles are for sale on international flights. Please consult the Extraordinair catalogue for details.

UNRULY/DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR ON BOARD SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS-OWNED/ OPERATED AIRCRAFT In terms of International Civil Aviation legislation and regulations, it is an offence for any person to: ? Commit any action that jeopardises or may jeopardise the safety of an aircraft, passenger and/or crew member. ? Disobey a valid instruction from a crew member (safety officer). ? Interfere with the normal operation of the aircraft. ? Assault or wilfully interfere with any member of the aircraft in the performance of his/her duties. ? Ignore warning signs and/or safety signs within the cabin of the aircraft. ? Wilfully cause damage to an aircraft which renders it incapable of flight or which is likely to endanger its safety in flight. ? Communicate any information which he/ she knows to be false, thereby endangering the safety of an aircraft in service. ? Commit any disruptive, disorderly or indecent act, be in a state of intoxication induced by alcohol and/or any other substance, behave in a violent or offensive manner to the annoyance of any other person on the aircraft,

or use abusive, indecent or offensive language. In terms of South African legislation, it is an offence to smoke on any South African-registered aircraft. Smoking in the toilet compartments of an aircraft is deemed a safety risk and is lawfully punishable. Any person committing any of these offences while on board an SAA flight may be arrested at his/her point of arrival and prosecuted in accordance with the applicable Civil Aviation legislation. Such prosecution may result in the imposition of a fine and/or imprisonment. In the interests of the safety of the travelling public and our employees, it is the policy of SAA to lay the necessary criminal charges against unruly passengers and to aggressively pursue the successful prosecution of such persons. PLEASE NOTE: In terms of International Civil Aviation legislation, the Commander (Captain) of the aircraft is authorised/empowered to take any action deemed necessary, including

restraint of any persons or property on board. In terms of this authority, the Commander may request and/or authorise any member of the crew to render assistance in terms of restraint of, or action against such offenders. In terms of SAA’s right of refusal of carriage, SAA reserves the right to refuse boarding to any person who is intoxicated or who, under reasonable grounds, is believed to pose a potential danger to safety and/or good order and discipline on board its aircraft.

THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A CREW MEMBER IS TO ACT AS A SAFETY OFFICER ON BOARD AN AIRCRAFT. ALL SAA CREW MEMBERS ARE TRAINED AND LICENSED AS SAFETY OFFICERS IN TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS.

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PLEASE NOTE: This applies to all passengers travelling in Economy Class regardless of their Voyager or other status and they are not entitled to additional cabin baggage. SMOKING 5 As per South African Civil Aviation Authority Regulations, smoking on board is prohibited. This includes the smoking of any artificial device or cigarette such as e- or electronic cigarettes.

OUR SAFETY GUIDE SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS HAS YOUR SAFETY AT HEART. PLEASE READ THESE PAGES CAREFULLY

SAFETY PAMPHLET Please read the safety pamphlet in the seat pocket in front of you and note your nearest emergency exit. On flights exceeding three hours, as well as multi-sector flights, we recommend that you review the content of the safety pamphlet again before each landing. CARRY-ON BAGGAGE For safety reasons, cabin baggage must fit into the approved stowage spaces – either in the overhead luggage compartment or under the seat in front of you. To ensure compliance with the legislative requirements, the following procedures will apply: 5 Lightweight hand luggage should be placed in the provided overhead stowage bins or at your feet underneath the seat in front of you. This is not only a safety precaution, but also provides you with more legroom. 5 When placing items in the overhead stowage bins,

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please ensure that they are securely positioned so that they do not fall out when the bins are opened. 5 Please take care when opening the overhead stowage bins, as articles that may have shifted before or during the flight could fall out and cause injuries. Business Class 5 SAA will accept two pieces of cabin baggage, neither of which may exceed a total dimension of 115cm and 8kg in weight. Economy Class 5 SAA will accept one piece of cabin baggage not exceeding a total dimension of 115cm and 8kg in weight.

SEAT BELTS 5 Please fasten your seat belt whenever the seat belt sign is illuminated. For your safety, we suggest you keep it fastened throughout the flight. 5 When sleeping under a blanket, please keep your seat belt loosely fastened over it so that the cabin crew do not need to wake you in the event of turbulence. 5 However, seat belts should always be unfastened during transit stops and refuelling. SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR IS PROHIBITED 5 In the interests of safety, sleeping on the floor is not permitted in any circumstances. In the event of an emergency, passengers sleeping on the floor would not have access to seat belts and oxygen masks. BASSINETS 5 Should you travel with a baby, book early and be sure to request a bassinet. The baby should not be older than six months, should not weigh more than 10kg and should not be more than 75cm in length. 5 In the interests of safety, babies may not occupy bassinets during take-offs or landings. FOOTRESTS 5 Passengers occupying seats with footrests must ensure that these are stowed for take-offs and landings. SEATS UPRIGHT AND TABLES STOWED 5 As a safety precaution and in compliance with safety legislation, seats should be returned to their upright position and tables should be stowed or folded away during takeoffs and landings.

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RESTRICTED The items below may be used with the permission of the Pilot in Command. This is normally indicated by the seat belt signs being switched OFF during climb and ON during descent. Should circumstances dictate otherwise, the Commander will inform the Senior Cabin Crew Member: 6 +/*+. 2%/$ CD-ROM ) DVD -%1! 6 '( $!' *-# )%.!-. 6 0 %* !,0%+(!)/ !# CD +' 4!- % * +' 4!- 6 *(+0/!- *).*'!. !# %)/!) * 6 !1% !. + '! *" -! *- %)# 6 %#%/ ' (!- . 6 $ ) $!' -! !%1!-. 6 % !* (!- -! *- !- %) '0 %)# %#%/ ' !,0%+(!)/ 6 '0!/**/$ !1% !. 2%/$ ight mode .!'! /! 6 * %'! +$*)!. 2%/$ ight mode .!'! /! 6 !1% !. 2%/$ ' & !--4 /! $)*'*#4 2%/$ ight mode .!'! /! 6 +/*+. . / '!/. !-! !-. 2%/$ 0%'/ %) % % 2%/$ wireless off .!//%)# .!'! /! PROHIBITED The items below are prohibited at all times: 6 !1% !. /- ).(%//%)# - %* "-!,0!) 4 %)/!)/%*) ''4 6 '&%! / '&%!. 6 !(*/! *)/-*''! /*4. 6 %.+' 4 0)%/. 2%/$ /$* ! - 4 /0 !.

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7 Wireless computer equipment (eg mouse). 7 PC printers. 7 PC scanners. 7 Laser pointers. 7 CD writers and mini disk recorders in the recording mode. 7 Portable stereo sets. 7 Pocket radios (AM/FM). 7 TV transmitters/receivers. 7 Telemetric equipment. 7 Wireless LAN.

mode may be used. Passengers will be required to select flight mode functionality prior to switching their cellphones off in preparation for the flight. The use of these devices in flight mode will be indicated by the Commander switching off the “fasten seat belt” sign after take-off and switching on the “fasten seat belt” sign again in preparation for landing.

Cabin crew members are responsible for enforcing the policy regarding the use of PEDs on board. If the cabin crew are unable to confirm that the transmitting function on an intentionally transmitting device has been disabled, then the device should be switched off. In addition, the Commander may prohibit the use of any PED if this is required in the interests of safety. After embarkation and prior to the cabin doors being closed, the In-flight Service Co-ordinator/Senior Cabin Crew Member will make an announcement advising passengers of the conditions under which flight

PLEASE NOTE: 1. If a passenger is uncertain how to select flight mode on the cellphone, the device must remain switched off for the duration of the flight. 2. If at any point during a flight any irregularities or interference are detected on the flight deck, flight mode is to be suspended immediately. In this event, the Commander will make an announcement to this effect.

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LIQUIDS, AEROSOLS AND GELS (LAGS) When travelling on international flights from South Africa, passengers are restricted from carrying certain LAGS in the aircraft cabin. These rules are aligned to International Civil Aviation Organisation standards. Passengers are required to place essential liquids, which they wish to carry with them on board the aircraft, in a re-sealable clear plastic bag with a capacity of not more than one litre and a total diameter of 80cm. Each item containing liquid cannot exceed 100ml in quantity and must fit comfortably inside the sealed bag. If these limitations are not adhered to, items will be confiscated by airport security and SAA will unfortunately not be in a position to recover them for passengers. When proceeding through airport security checkpoints, the bag holding these items must be separated from any other cabin baggage. Items which are exempt from the LAG restrictions and that may be carried on board, without being placed in a clear plastic bag, are: 7 Baby formula/milk and baby food in small containers, if a baby or small child is travelling with the person carrying such items. 7 Essential and other non-prescription medicines not exceeding 100ml per container, including saline solution and eyecare products such as eyedrops and contact lens solution. 7 Liquids, gels and juice for diabetic passengers who indicate a need for such items to address their medical condition. 7 Solid cosmetics and personal hygiene items such as lipstick in a tube, solid deodorant, lip balm and similar solids. Any duty-free LAG products purchased after security checkpoints should be placed in special security bags at the store and passengers connecting to further destinations are advised to keep these sealed throughout their journey.

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IN-FLIGHT FITNESS

o further ensure that you have a pleasant experience on our flight, we’d like to draw your attention to certain health tips which are recommended for all passengers and should be followed throughout the duration of the flight. The following tips are at all times subject to any intervening in-flight safety instructions being issued. They’re designed to improve blood circulation, alleviate sluggishness and relieve crampled muscles. 1. Exercise your legs and flex your feet at regular intervals while seated to improve blood circulation. 2. Deep-breathing exercises are recommended. 3. Short walks, preferably once every two hours, are excellent for blood circulation. 4. Increase your normal intake of water and/or soft drinks before and throughout the flight; drink alcoholic beverages in moderation. Any passenger who is aware of and/or affected by a medical condition of any nature whatsoever is responsible for seeking medical advice from their own medical practitioner before embarking on an intended flight, in order to determine whether the medical condition could be worsened by air travel.

THE 10 CARDINAL RULES OF COMFORTABLE FLYING Pack your medicines (homeopathic and prescribed) in your on-board hold-all so that you’re prepared for any emergency. Also refer to Liquids, Aerosols and Gels on the previous page. Eat and drink alcohol in moderation, but have as much water as you like to prevent dehydration. Wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothes made of natural fibres. Make sure your shoes can handle expanding ankles and swollen feet. Get up every two hours while on board, stretch and go to the bathroom to freshen up.

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Do the on-board exercises shown on this page. Always set your watch to the time of your destination so that your body has the duration of the flight to adjust to this new reality. Walk as much as you can once you’ve arrived at your destination – it helps get the circulation going. Scrub your body vigorously in the shower or bath to dislodge any unwanted build-up of fluids. Take a short nap on arrival that revives you without interfering with your night-time sleep.

Knee to chest Bend forward slightly, clasp your hands around your left knee and hug it towards your chest. Hold for 15 seconds. Alternate legs and repeat 10 times.

Ankle circles Lift feet and draw circles with your toes, one foot clockwise and the other anti-clockwise at the same time. Rotate in each direction for 15 seconds.

> With both heels on the floor, point feet upward as high as you can.

> Put both feet flat on the floor. > Lift your heels high while keeping the balls of your feet on the floor.

> Repeat in a continuous motion and at 30second intervals.

Neck roll Relax your shoulders and drop your ear to your shoulder. Gently roll your neck from one shoulder to the other. Hold each position for about five seconds. Repeat five times.

Shoulder roll Hunch your shoulders forward, then upward, backward and downward in a gentle circular motion. Repeat five times.

Body stretch With both your feet on the floor and stomach in, slowly bend forward and stretch your hands down the front of your legs towards your ankles. Hold for 15 seconds and sit back slowly.

Knee lift Lift your leg with knee bent and contract your thigh muscle. Repeat 2030 times for each leg.

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What happens to your body when you fly? > The central blood vessels in your legs can be compressed, making it more difficult for the blood to get back to the heart. > The long inactivity of your body muscles in this position can result in muscle tension, backaches or a feeling of excessive fatigue – during or even after your flight. > The cramped position inhibits the normal body mechanism from returning fluid to the heart, while gravity can cause fluid to collect in your feet. This results in swollen feet after a long flight. Boeing recommends that passengers do light exercises (see above) that may assist in increasing blood circulation and massaging the muscles. Also, when stopping between destinations, walk around frequently and remember to stretch! Source: Improved Passenger Comfort Guide produced by Boeing

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