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We asked chef Bertus Basson, who commands the Boland restaurant scene with a slew of great eateries, to share a favourite recipe with us. He chose a dish beloved by South Africans: his own peri-peri chicken.

You don’t drive ‘through’ McGregor; it’s a bit under 20 km from Robertson and there is only one road into and out of it. But along that one road are wineries and restaurants galore. Time to plan a visit.

An atmosphere of sheer bliss engulfed the Amazink restaurant, a dinner and performance venue in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, when it was relaunched on Wednesday evening (29 June), after being closed for two years owing to Covid-19 restrictions.

A special meal would not be complete without Ma Inez’s chicken pie, a recipe passed down and held dear; an ordinary pie filled with symbolism.

, a charitable trust that assists the Darling community.  Evita Bezuidenhout is an intrinsic part of South African history, and has been since the darkest days of apartheid, up till this very day – and many more in the future. Created by Pieter-Dirk Uys in the late 1970s, Tannie Evita, as she is affectionately known, made her home in Darling in 1996, at Evita se Perron alongside the train tracks running through the small Swartland town. Comprising a museum, book shop, outdoor sculpture park,...