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It’s official, the best female chef in the world is South African. As announced in Warsaw last month, Chantel Dartnell the owner and head-chef of Gauteng-based Restaurant Mosaic took the coveted title after being selected by 300 voters,

This past month we’re celebrating Manatee Awareness Month, an awareness campaign that was initiated by past Governor of Florida, Bob Graham in November 1979.

Imagine a world where people no longer buy wildlife products such as shark fin, elephant ivory, rhino horn and pangolin scales.

“The salt which is in our seawater is in our blood, sweat, and tears. Each of us has breathed warm saline for days on end and survived. The lungs themselves derive from fused pharyngeal pouches, and gill slits still form temporarily in all chordate embryos, including humans. This reminds us that something which became Homo did crawl up a beach many years ago. The satisfaction for certain people of walking back down a beach and into the sea is akin to that of a long-postponed homecoming.”
‘Seven Tenths – The Sea and its Threshholds,’
James Hamilton-Paterson

Wherever you are in the world this Sunday, October 15th, we encourage you to celebrate Garden Day South Africa, the initiative of Babylonstoren Farm, one of our top picks for any Cape Winelands itinerary.

Planning unique, bespoke and truly curated itineraries that offer life-changing experiences is what we at ROAR AFRICA do best.

We’ve long considered the bowerbird (native to Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia) the uncontested master builder of nests.

The extraordinary importance of what businessman and philanthropist Jochen Zeitz has set out to do with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA)

Affectionately dubbed the ‘White Zulu’ or ‘Le Zulu Blanc’, South African Johnny Clegg is something of a living legend. His unique brand of contemporary yet traditional African music has had his fans enthralled for more than forty years.