Sub-tropical Durban with its eternal summer, warm waters and alluring surf is the Zulu Kingdom’s bewitching seaside playground. It’s a bustling seaport of fascinating contrasts where Zulu, Indian and European influences create a cultural mosaic.
The IPL cricket match schedule has been announced, with Durban getting the lion's share - a total of 16 games will be played in the balmy seaside city on South Africa's eastern coast.
Despite the economic doom and gloom in the aviation sector and the global fall in tourism numbers, Kenya Airways and Delta Air are introducing new connections to Southern Africa.
Uganda is to open a world-class research centre for rice. The country received a US$6-million grant from Japan, one of the world's leading rice growers, to establish the facility.
Today is D-day for football fans wishing to apply for the first batch of tickets for the FIFA 2010 World Cup and the Local Organising Committee has announced that they have received more than one million online applications from more than 160 countries for the 743000 tickets available in this phase.
With only five days to go until the end of the first sales phase, tickets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup are in great demand - so far appliications for more than one million tickets have been received from over 160 countries for the 743,000 available tickets for sale at this stage.
The recent spate of celebrities climbing Kilimanjaro in aid of charity – including Boyzone's Ronan Keating and former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar - has sparked a renewed interest in embarking on this African adventure.