Their lives changed overnight while appearing on Love Island earlier this year. And Callum Jones listed the ways he feels his life has transformed since he entered the villa in South Africa, where he met girlfriend Molly Smith. The scaffolder, 24, shocked viewers of Love Island: What Happened Next when he revealed one of the … Read more
The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week his advice is directed at issues around visiting South Africa, travel insurance for UK holidays and Covid restrictions on camping. Q. I hold a UK passport, live in Spain and visit South Africa each year for three months. In the past I … Read more
Hyenas get the last laugh: Incredible footage shows wild dogs steal impala meal from leopard… only for pack to be chased off by bigger rivals A leopard is no match for a pack of wild dogs with an eye on the impala it caught The dogs chase the leopard up a tree but are threatened … Read more
A female farmer has been sexually assaulted and strangled to death while another rural worker has been tortured and murdered in the latest attacks on South Africa‘s white farmers. Divorcee Chantel Kershaw, 44, was ambushed by two armed black men while working her land in Delmas east of Johannesburg on Wednesday. Kershaw’s underwear was ripped … Read more
Road runner! Ostrich joins in with cyclists’ race in South Africa Daniel Sass, who captured the video, said: ‘As we rolled through the hills and took in all the beauty we noticed a strange bird running with the peloton’ The ostrich ran after the lead cyclist of their group and was able to keep pace … Read more
Royal experts say Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could have justified the sky-high cost of their tour of Africa if they had not ended it with a ‘personal’ attack on the press. Royal watchers say the 2019 tour, which it was revealed today cost the taxpayer £240,000, could have been a ‘historic success’. But on … Read more
Harry and Meghan’s last official tour as members of the Royal Family cost British taxpayers almost a quarter of a million pounds, official accounts reveal today. The high-profile trip to South Africa, Botswana, Angola and Malawi last autumn had been billed as one of the showpiece events of the royal year. But the couple left … Read more
Human trials of Oxford’s vaccine are still on hold in the US over safety concerns, two weeks after they were first paused. AstraZeneca, the drug giant which owns the rights to the experimental jab, stopped global trials on September 8 because a British volunteer was hospitalised. Leaked documents claimed the patient, a 37-year-old woman, developed … Read more
The knobby ‘horns’ on top of a giraffe’s head may act like a dangerous lightning rod, according to a conservation scientist in South Africa. Two female giraffes were found dead at Rockwood wildlife reserve in Northern Cape after a sudden lightning storm in February. When rangers investigated, they found that one of the older giraffe’s … Read more
ISIS jihadists overrun paradise islands where Bono and Daniel Craig holiday before torching luxury villas and imposing Sharia law Luxurious Indian Ocean island of Vamizi, Mozambique, has been razed by ISIS Prince Albert of Monaco honeymooned there, former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela stayed there, as did footballer Christiano Ronaldo Vamizi and smaller islands … Read more