ISSUE Nº 14 · WINTER 2026 · JOHANNESBURG / CAPE TOWN / EVERYWHERE

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Culture

Braai is not a barbecue. Stop translating it.

On fire, patience and the one South African institution that is never up for debate. An essay in defence of slow coals.

Travel

Slow roads: three days on the R62 with no plan

Padstals, dorpie hotels and the case for South Africa's greatest road trip being the one you don't rush.

Fashion

The tailors of Salt River are booked until spring

A new generation is queueing for tailoring cut to order, and what that says about fast fashion fatigue.

Food & Wine

Rooibos, but make it third wave

Cederberg farmers and city baristas are turning the national brew into something you'd queue for.

Art

The gallery boom nobody saw coming is in Gqeberha

Spaces run by artists are opening faster in the Eastern Cape than in Cape Town. We asked why.

Travel

Karoo dark sky towns and the new star tourism

Sutherland's telescopes have neighbours now: farm stays selling silence and starlight by the night.

We are not a single story. We are a chorus: eleven languages deep, scented with braai smoke, and still writing itself.
From the Editor's Letter, Issue Nº 14
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