South and south-central Africa offer a mix of lively cosmopolitan cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town, and wildlife-rich countryside for safaris in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and beyond. Adventurous ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden to it, and thus to its mother country.

The diversity of a road trip through KwaZulu-Natal can be summarised by the four Bs: beaches, bush, battlefields and Berg. In Royal Natal National Park, soul-stirring views await hikers at the ...