South Africa news archive

archive of flight surveys carried out on South African flights between Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town

6 Feb 2012	Sanparks 40% discount near end of 2012*
30 Jan 2012	Visiting Namibia
2 Jan 2012	SA - Botswana - Zimbabwe overland
11 Nov 2011	Last minute cruise specials
12 Sep 2011	Kruger Park safari
29 Aug 2011	Bill Harrop hot air ballooning
11 Aug 2011	Draft tourism bill is released for public comment.
12 Jul 2011	We're offering Hartbeespoort Jasmyn balloon flights again
1 Jun 2011	Review of a Cape Town tandem paragliding flight
22 May 2011	My 8-day Cape Town holiday
28 Apr 2011	Hoedspruit hot air balloon flights
2 Apr 2011	Mozambique overland safari
30 Mar 2011	World Travel Awards are open for voting. Support your favourite travel organisation.
21 Mar 2011	Tips for packing airline luggage
6 Mar 2011	19 day cruise from Singapore to Cape Town on the Artemis
5 - 6 Mar 2011	Cape Argus Pick 'n Pay MTB Challenge
4 Feb 2011	20 day Zambezi Source Expedition.


3 Feb 2011	Epic 16-day overland safari to Botswana & Namibia Etosha (starts & finishes in Johannesburg).


28 Jan 2011	Victor Bunjira tells us about his holiday in Vredendal.


27 Jan 2011	Take your school class on a Wild Dog conservation trip.


12 - 13 Feb 2011	Midmar Mile (swimming), Pietermaritzburg
1 - 6 Feb 2011	Bok van Blerk cruise from Durban to Madagascar and back to Durban on the MSC Melody.
8 Jan 2010	Cape Town safari day trips.


1 Jan 2010	Holiday in Sedgefield, by Zuhayra


12 Dec 2010	Lauren wins Nov travel blog of the month for her write-up of the Garden Route.


31 Oct 2010	Top SA travel blog in October.


10 Oct 2010	Well done to Peter Crook for winning travel blog of the month in September for his photoblog of South African steam engines.


20 Sep 2010	Reduction in prices of cruises from Italy to South Africa.


11 Sep 2010	European ski resorts


6 Sep 2010	Melody & Sinfonia cruises from Cape Town & Durban.


5 Sep 2010	The RMS St Helena.


31 Aug 2010	8 day Kalahari birding safari.


22 Aug 2010	Best Southern Africa travel blog from July 2010.


17 Aug 2010	Overland tours from South Africa.


2 Aug 2010	Johannesburg to Victoria Falls overland from R8,600 per person sharing.


2010	MSC Sinfonia & Melody cruises early bird specials
24 Jul 2010	Harihan's tales of his trip to Engogo win our SA travel blog of the month for June.


13 Jul 2010	Special student prices on cruises - MSC Melody & MSC Sinfonia.


27 Jun 2010	Overland Johannesburg to Tanzania & Tanzania to Johannesburg.


22 Jun 2010	Cape Town semi-final travel for the Fifa World Cup.


14 Jun 2010	Durban semi-final travel (& see Cape Town's weapon of mass vuvustruction)


12 Jun 2010	Next 3 months events & Durban to Joburg travel prices.


10 Jun 2010	Overland South Africa to London trip.


9 Jun 2010	England v Algeria in Cape Town.


8 Jun 2010	5FM competition - 31 flights up for grabs.


7 Jun 2010	South Africa Cup matches travel.


30 May 2010	Red Gannet's dragonfly photos in Cape Town wins the blog of month.


27 May 2010	Uruguay v France in Cape Town travel prices...so low one wouldn't guess a match is on.


24 May 2010	Super 14 final travel - be part of history at Orlando Stadium.


22 May 2010	1time Holidays in Cape Town.


20 May 2010	USA v Slovenia travel prices.


17 May 2010	England v Algeria in Cape Town - travel prices.


17 Apr 2010	For the first time ever a travel blog to Port Elizabeth wins blog of the month.


12 May 2010	Durban World Cup travel price analysis.


29 Apr 2010	Overland Africa - Travel Overland and explore Africa.


25 Apr 2010	Overland safari from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls.


1 May 2010	Travel events in South Africa over the next 3 months.


1 May 2010	Durban flights are to/from King Shaka Airport, from 1 May 2010


28 Apr 2010	Baz Bus - a South African treasure.


13 Feb 2010	Stephen Hayes' touching account of growing up in Ingogo is the best travel blog posting in January.


22 Jan 2010	15 day overland safari from Johannesburg. BA business class cheapest we've ever seen.




16 Jan 2010	Write-up of an overland South Africa tour.







1 Jan 2010	Sean finds his heart in Africa
27 Dec 2009	Best Dec 2009 travel blog postings.






Nov 2009	Overland tours from Johannesburg
1 Nov 2009	What not to ask ladies on flights
1 Nov 2009	The MSC Sinfonia cruise ship is in South Africa
1 Aug 2009	Best Jul 2009 southern Africa travel blog posting
1 Jul 2009	Best Jun 2009 southern Africa travel blog posting
15 May 2009	Transnet sells Shosholoza Meyl to the Passengers Rail Agency of South Africa.
1 May 2009	Top Apr 2009 travel blogs
1 Apr 2009	Top Mar 2009 Travel blog
25 Mar 2009	An analysis of the travel blog finalists in the SA Blog Awards 2009.




1 Mar 2009	Top Feb 2009 travel blog
25 Feb 2009	Travel blog of the month winner for January 2009 is Colleen, one of these great people who have given up time to teach in Lesotho.




28 Jan 2009	In our never-ending quest to satisfy our clients, we are now covering Cape Town airport shuttles.



22 Dec 2008	All hands on deck! For our next review we'll be taking a cruise on the Waterfront Boat Company's Spirit of Victoria, a 58 foot gaff-rigged schooner.
8 Dec 2008	We've updated our list of things to do in Port Elizabeth.
1 Dec 2008	Each month we choose the top travel blog posting of the month, and in November it was Francois Portmann's wonderful display of the photos of Cape Griffon vultures he took in Thabazimbi.
25 Nov 2008	Here's a list of overland tour operators from Cape Town
6 Sep 2008	Google Chrome steals Firefox users.
23 Aug 2008	Some photos of the Gautrain as it runs into Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport.
13 Jul 2008	Finally, a year after it launched in the USA (a bit longer actually), the Apple iPhone is in South Africa's shops - it's being rolled out by Vodacom, through Vodafone's agreement with Apple.
2 Jul 2008	Happy birthday Netflorist. As part of Netflorist's 9th birthday, they're offering a range of specials like 20% off a bunch of "Shades of Autumn".
28 Jun 2008	We are in the process of outsourcing our email distribution to AWeber Communications. If you are on our mailing list, you will shortly receive an email requiring you to respond in order to remain on the mailing list.
24 Jun 2008	Netflorist are offering a bouquet of lilies & irises for R199 + R40 delivery.
21 Jun 2008	We've revamped our page which focusses on florists in South Africa, and set up a page which focusses on Netflorist bouquets - inspired by the fact that Netflorist and Kulula have teamed up.
20 Jun 2008	Amazon have stopped using the SA Postal Service due to relentless thefts, and are now couriering items to South Africa. As couriering is much more expensive, using alternative South African-based companies like Kalahari has become much more appealing.
20 Jun 2008	Eckhart Tolle speaks to me in a way few people do. In his book, "A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose", Tolle explains how the ego tries to create itself by making others different.
12 Jun 2008	We're setting up a page focussing on divorce lawyers.
25 May 2008	Axejet returns - for some reason the term Axejet is suddenly in our top 10 most searched for terms which land readers at our site. We investigate.
26 Apr 2008	Kalahari are offering an up to 30% off special for all books purchased until the end of April 2008.
25 Apr 2008	It's 14 months since our little one was born, and African Independent has approached us with their Stemsure product (which provides insurance in the event of you needing to use your stem cells).
19 Apr 2008	There's been some massive jumps in Alexa rankings over the last week. Is Alexa broken?
16 Apr 2008	It's not long since Kulula set up their credit card...and now, what do you know, they've entered the Internet Service Provider game- we present to you the Kulula ISP.
11 Apr 2008	Some may not be familiar with www.take2.co.za, an alternative to shopping at Kalahari which is sometimes cheaper.

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