This season, festive entertaining moves away from prescriptive tradition in favour of rich personal narratives, unexpected colour palettes, and expressive design.

Nando’s has officially lifted the curtain on its landmark new restaurant in Stellenbosch’s historic Woodmill precinct, offering an elevated fusion of flame-grilled dining, local craftsmanship, and relaxed Winelands living.

If there is one thing KwaZulu-Natal’s premier coastal playground understands, it is the art of the seamless day-to-night transition. From sunrise espresso runs along the promenade to late-night sundowners cooled by the Indian Ocean breeze, Umhlanga Ridge has long been the pulsating heartbeat of Durban’s cosmopolitan lifestyle scene. Now, that pulse just got a serious acceleration.

There is an unwritten, sacred law etched into the culinary identity of Tshwane street food: a Kota or Sphatlo without cheese is nothing more than a hollowed-out quarter loaf of white bread nursing an identity crisis.

If there is one universal truth about South Africans, it’s that nobody Decembers quite like us. As the country shifts into warm end-of-year gatherings, family braais, and long table lunches, Nando’s has just thrown a fresh and surprisingly mild curveball into our national festive menu.

"Much of my work is made as part of my attempt to deeply immerse myself in the natural world, to dissolve the line between my body and nature. I spend as much time as I can in forests or on the top of mountains, often grinding the rocks I find there into powder to make paint, then making a painting of the mountain, forest or field with its own substance." -Jonathan Freemantle