Michael Brown has the heads-up on the best South African side-trips and booking your World Cup tickets.

Sighting a celebrity out of his natural habitat helps Michael Brown boost his safari tally.

Located in northern Zululand, Thanda Private Game Reserve is an award-winning safari destination.

Michael Brown discovers Soweto - a place dripping history as much as succulent juices from a chicken curry.

Half the fun on a safari is the feeling that anything could happen, writes Stuart Dye.

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, F. W. de Klerk fends off accusations from some white South Africans that he gave South Africa away.

Morgan Freeman was just fine and dandy as the great freedom fighter. He also happens to be the biggest problem with Invictus, writes Dylan Cleaver.

Research finds that running without any footwear could be better for your legs because it encourages the use of a different set of muscles.

It is a month since he lost his son, and former All Black and MP Grahame Thorne is still in denial.

A British company has come under fire for trying to sell "stab-proof" vests to soccer fans heading to South Africa for the World Cup.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

Following the marriage of President Jacob Zuma to his fifth wife, the Independent looks at the arguments for and against polygamy.

Clint Eastwood's forthcoming film about South Africa's 1995 Rugby World Cup victory may cause NZ rugby loyalists to shout 'Hollywood!'

All Black great Grahame Thorne has spoken of his grief at losing his eldest son in a Christmas Eve car crash in South Africa.