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The quiet luxury of Keurbooms, South Africa’s chic coastal retreat
While Europe cools, South Africa’s Garden Route is warming up. The resort town of Keurboomstrand pairs barefoot charm with elegant polish, whitewashed villas, wine you’ll want to ship home and endless Indian Ocean horizons.
Wiser council
Mary Fitzgerald on why African representation at the UN is becoming a battleground for the West and its rivals.
Field days
For the Dutch couple who run Sterrekopje among the valleys and fields near Stellenbosch in South Africa, operating a hotel encouraging guests to interact with its staff is as natural as the bucolic surroundings.
Is the future electric?
Despite booming sales, electric vehicles face mounting challenges from infrastructure gaps to mining concerns, raising questions about whether mass adoption can truly deliver on climate promises.
Design
A Practice for Everyday Life, a clever school extension, the revamped analogue Leica, an interview with Moshe Safdie and architecture as art.
Business
A South African surfing start-up, food for thought from Cop27 and 25hours Hotels co-founder Christoph Hoffmann on the future of the hotel industry.
Business
Iberia’s new uniforms, the South African brand that converts sea waste into clothing and a chat with Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano.
Staying power
Checking in at intimate boltholes including a Portuguese hilltop town hotel, a wine shrine in a former Arizona newspaper building, and more characterful new properties worldwide
Beyond a joke
In an era where comedy walks a tightrope between relevance and risk, satirists worldwide navigate the delicate balance of wielding humour as political weapon while avoiding cancellation or worse.
Open spaces: new hotels and design-led stays from Cornwall to California
Robin Hutson's seventh Pig hotel transforms a 15th-century Cornish house into a coastal retreat where kitchen gardens, local foraging and visiting pigs create an authentic farm-to-table experience.
