With just weeks to go before holiday-makers descend on KwaZulu-Natal for the festive season, several beaches around Durban are showing ‘poor water quality’.
Cape Town beachgoers have been urged to keep to lifeguard-protected beaches after two separate biting incidents this past Saturday.
South Africa is blessed with stretches of practically untouched, god-tier coastlines and one was acknowledged by Condé Nast Traveler right now.
A London-based start-up said its Golden Beach Award 2024, “goes beyond the conventional” charting of the world’s best beaches where places are picked purely for their aesthetics.
The best beaches in the world have been revealed, and one South African spot has made it onto the list.
Based on an independent analysis of water samples taken over the past seven weeks, the City of Cape Town has confirmed that our popular beaches received excellent water quality results ahead of the festive season.
The channel has set up live webcams at four top beaches across South Africa with three in Cape Town, namely Clifton 4th, Muizenberg, Strand, and Jbay Main Beach.
Quite a few beaches have been closed across the city over the past few months due to sewage spills, but the issue seems to be more prevalent than we think.
While 51 beaches across South Africa get to fly their Blue Flags high for the next year, Durban is in the dirty water naughty corner.
The data allows us to see which South African beaches are the most searched for, and seven of the top 10 are in Cape Town.
The beaches are selected according to the most popular spots voted among Tripadvisor’s reviewers, gathered between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021.
Saturday’s Muizenberg beach protest saw some heated scenes play out, with emotions boiling over and some rather interesting viewpoints shared.
Beach bans and increased curfews. Electoral college official – Trump lost. Pornhub’s huge video removal. Rugby World Cup draw. Shia LaBeouf’s exes have had enough.
A beach day was cut short in Durban over the weekend when law enforcement showed up and gave chase.
In the ongoing war between Capetonians and Jozi peeps about who has the best home, we often forget about Durban.
Climate change has resulted in rising sea levels that are now causing damage to coastal properties in Cape Town.
Strict new laws, including regulating music volume and earlier closing hours, have led to a steady decline in the number of tourists visiting Ibiza.
Following a four-month tourist ban, authorities in Thailand have announced the indefinite closure of Maya Bay, the beach from ‘The Beach’.
If you’re looking for a place where you can let it all hang out while travelling, you might want to take a look at CNN’s list of the world’s best nudist beaches.
Table View is renowned for being a little gusty, which has created a problem for those driving along the coastal road. Up in Durban, the issue is somewhat different.
With 2 500 kilometres of shoreline, you would think more of South Africa’s beaches would make the cut. Alas, but I suppose landing two isn’t all that shabby.
Here’s the thing about beaches: people are generally looking for different things when they choose to get some sand between the toes.
What with all the doom and gloom of Nkandla, wind storms and load-shedding, these awful photos of a Spanish beach remind us why we love Cape Town so much
The panic has set in and people are soaking up the last warm rays before we button down the hatches. Let’s all take it easy and kick in style at the beach.
This guy. I remember walking out of Titanic sobbing my face off. I remember watching The Beach and wishing I could be there. Now that he is an actual grown up, do you think he still has it? Here’s the proof he does.
We’re spoilt down here in the Western Cape. We have the winelands and the mountains and most importantly, the beautiful coastline, which can now boast about it’s beaches.
Apparently we are not as happy as we think we are. South Africa comes in at number two on this list, which is and isn’t a surprise. Have a look at who is slightly more happier than us.
It’s a tough discussion to have, but TripAdvisor’s readers have cast their votes on what island is the most beautiful in the world.
Durban steps into the spotlight thanks to CNN’s “Most Underrated Cities in the World” list, and it’s about time, because SA’s eastern coast city has some serious attributes to flaunt.
Navagio is rated as the prettiest beach in all of Greece, ipso facto the world – by a sane person’s logic. Nicknamed ‘Smuggler’s Cove’, the beach has its very own rusty shipwreck, which is rumoured to have once belonged to a smuggler – more logic.