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"There is little that I could add to the brilliant outlook that my colleague Elmarie Rabe, chairperson of the South African Wine Routes Forum (SAWRF) and head of Stellenbosch Wine Routes, shared on wine tourism and wine trends in 2024," says Marisah Nieuwoudt, wine tourism manager at South Africa Wine.
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The salt pans of Botswana’ Makgadikgadi hold an unusual magic that I’ve heard described as “humbling”, “healing”, or even “disturbing”.
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For the past 16 years South Africans have dreaded rolling power cuts euphemistically dubbed “loadshedding”. These are caused by the ailing state power entity Eskom’s crumbling infrastructure and its over-reliance on ageing and poorly maintained coal-fired power stations. Loadshedding has worsened in 2023, with some areas experiencing power cuts for up to 10 hours a day.
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In a constant effort to increase revenue streams and diversify their operations, farmers are constantly looking at new opportunities.
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The government has ignored a plea for assistance from South Africa’s leading inbound tourism organisation, for urgent intervention to unblock a “bureaucratic debacle” that is strangling the industry.
WWF South Africa is delighted to announce that five more wine farms have been welcomed into its prestigious Conservation Champion programme, bringing to 55 the total number of WWF Conservation Champions in the Cape Winelands, which overlaps two major global biodiversity hotspots – the Cape Floral Kingdom and the Succulent Karoo.
