The Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden outside Johannesburg has been renamed the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, in honour of the freedom fighter who was also “the father of everyone” with whom he spent a quarter of a century behind apartheid’s prison bars. Walter Sisulu’s Garden
The Museum of Man and Science in downtown Johannesburg is overflowing with illuminating exhibits and displays – of a different kind. The 66-year-old “museum” is actually a traditional muti or medicine shop, and provides an explosion of strange sights and smells. Joburg’s king of muti museum
Cape Town has its low, flat, Table Mountain. Johannesburg has the long, thin, Hillbrow Tower, one of the tallest towers in Africa. It’s a tribute to the tower’s symbolic power that it has been incorporated into the city’s official logo. Hillbrow Tower – symbol of Joburg
South Africa’s flourishing craft market is providing tourists with spectacular and original artefacts to take home from their travels. And in the process, poverty is being alleviated in a truly sustainable manner. Beautiful Things from SA
