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Moving to South Africa?

South Africa, the Rainbow Nation, has eleven official names and eleven official languages and numerous smaller tribes. Inhabited by humans for over one hundred thousand years, it has some of the oldest archaeological sites in the world. By the 4th century, Bantu-speaking peoples had moved south of the Limpopo river. Further south, Xhosa tribes settled around the Great Fish River. These groups existed in uneasy harmony until the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the late 15th century. Reaching the southernmost tip of Africa, explorers named it the Cape of Good Hope. In 1652 the Dutch established Cape Town, transporting slaves from Indonesia, Madagascar and India to build it. Expanding east, they came up against the Xhosa in a series of frontier wars. The British took over the colony in 1795 and were soon fighting on two fronts, as the discovery of extensive gold and diamond reserves triggered the Boer Wars.

The Union of South Africa was created in 1910. The 1913 Natives’ Land Act severely restricted “the blacks’” ownership of land, foreshadowing apartheid, a severe form of racial segregation enforced by the National Party between 1948 and 1994. Whites got the best of everything while black people had different education and medical systems, and migration and voting rights were restricted. Massive popular resistance was led by the African National Congress, labour unions and church groups. The rest of the world started to pay attention in the early 1960s, with a series of UN resolutions condemning apartheid; by the late 1980s twenty-five nations had passed various trade sanctions against South Africa. In 1989 President De Klerk moved to dismantle the system. Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and the first elections were held in 1994. Since then, the country has been rebuilding itself as a land of opportunity for all.

It is also a fantastic holiday destination, with a temperate climate and phenomenal natural and cultural diversity. Frenetic Johannesburg, the economic heart of Africa, used to be known for its dangers. These days, it’s home to the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, an amusement park in an old mine, and a buzzing live music scene. Soweto is the biggest township in the country, a seething muddle of streets that includes Mandela’s old home and the Hector Petersen Memorial and Museum, which documents the 1976 Soweto Uprising. If you need to relax after that, Cape Town is stunningly located with iconic Table Mountain slap bang in the centre of it. Bo-Kaap is a lovely nineteenth century quarter lined with Dutch and Georgian houses. South of the city, Cape Point is a stunning but treacherous promontory. Off shore, Robben Island is the notorious prison where Mandela spent twenty-seven years.

For most people, the high point of a visit to South Africa is in one of the national parks. The savannahs of Kruger National Park are justifiably renowned, home to scores of elephants, lions and a cast of thousands of other game roaming the plains. Addo Elephant Park is less visited but has as a wide a variety of animals – elephants predominate, of course. Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park has elating scenery – massive spires, rock buttresses, wide grasslands, glorious waterfalls, rivers, pools and fern-carpeted forests – and is a paradise for hiking. The Wild Coast region on the Eastern Cape is one of the most unspoilt areas, with pristine beaches, undulating hills and lush forest. It’s largely populated by Xhosa. In the harsh Kalahari Desert, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is the place to see cheetahs.