South Africa 2026

After having our 2006 trip to South Africa canceled because of COVID, we finally decided to recreate much of it this year. The first two weeks will be accompanied and the last two weeks we will do on our own, traveling the Garden Route.

March 6, 2026 By Glen Bruels

Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa — a sobering day

This is part of a series called South Africa 2026 Today we spent the day traveling around Johannesburg and Soweto. The story of Johannesburg is the story of gold — no gold, no Jo’burg. First discovered in 1886 on a local Dutch farm, by 1890 it became apparent that the original find was the top…