Last Updated:April 11, 2026, 11:55 IST Ten days, motion sickness, a Harley Davidson tattoo, and the best story I will ever tell. Experience swimming with sharks (in a cage) along South Africa’s coastline Ask an Indian about South Africa and you will get two things: cricket and more cricket. Personally, …
Last Updated:February 25, 2026, 17:15 IST South Africa offers varied landscapes including romantic vineyards, dramatic coastlines, serene lagoons, iconic mountains, and safari adventures. South Africa can several different types of landscapes all close to each other, making it perfect for an aesthetic pre-wedding shoot Not too long ago, many Indian …
Johannesburg — On most mornings, dozens of people line up and wait for appointments outside the U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, many seeking applications for visas to travel to the U.S. It can take up to five or six months just to get one of the appointments. On Thursday, a …
Refugee admissions to the United States have all but ground to a halt — except for one group, or a “small subset,” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them on Tuesday: Afrikaners. They are members of the White ethnic minority that once led South Africa’s brutal, four-decade apartheid regime, …
A garden is an ideal place to spend a sunny afternoon, but would you fly across the world for the pleasure of doing so? Which gardens are worthy of such a journey? To answer that question — and define what makes a garden truly spectacular — we assembled a panel …
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection. The trial was shutting down, a nurse …
Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. Subsequent waivers from the State Department have clarified that the work can continue, but the funds and legal paperwork to …
As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients …
Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport on his way to being hailed a colossus of the curl, died on Jan. 10 …
At a gala dinner held soon after South Africa’s most contested election since the end of apartheid, a singer reminded the gathered politicians how to do their jobs. “I want to implore you to think of the people of this country, and to think about why you have been chosen,” …