Editorial blog

If you drive in South Africa, you have probably had this question at the pump: should you fill up with 93 or 95 petrol, and is the more expensive option actually worth it?

The Johannesburg-to-Cape Town run on the N1 is one of South Africa’s classic long-distance drives: big mileage, long open stretches, strong holiday traffic at peak times, and a ro…

South Africa’s petrol stations are changing, but not in the simple, dramatic way some headlines suggest. This is not really a story about forecourts vanishing. It is a story about…

South Africa’s April 2026 fuel story is, for now, a forecast story rather than a finished one. As of Saturday, 28 March 2026, the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources fue…

The Johannesburg-to-Durban drive is not just another long-distance trip. It runs along one of South Africa’s most important freight and holiday corridors, linking Gauteng to Durba…

Durban works because it makes a family beach holiday feel easy. It is warm, energetic and remarkably practical: a city where the beachfront is not an afterthought, where the prome…

Start writing your article here.The Drakensberg is not one mountain holiday so much as three different mountain moods. The Northern Berg is the dramatic postcard version, all esca…

Kruger is one of the great first-time safari destinations because it gives you something many wildlife destinations do not: choice. You can self-drive, stay inside the park, base…

The Garden Route is one of those drives that quietly overdelivers. On paper, it is a run along the N2 from Mossel Bay to Storms River. In practice, it is a stitched-together corri…