Lifestyle

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

There was a time when inflight dining was regarded merely as functional sustenance—a necessary pitstop between departure gate and destination. But in the contemporary luxury travel landscape, the modern jetsetter demands that the journey itself mirrors the refinement of a Michelin-starred boutique hotel.

In South Africa’s rapidly evolving media ecosystem, corporate boardrooms have traditionally dictated consumer trends from the top down. But every so often, a cultural movement emerges from the grassroots, completely disrupting the status quo.

From Johannesburg rooftops to Cape Town hotels, the Maison turns three days into one long celebration.