Shamwari bags two top accolades
South Africa's Shamwari Game Reserve has won "World's Leading Safari & Game Reserve" award for the eleventh consecutive year at the prestigious World Travel Awards, held in the Turks and Caicos Islands this week, while also walking away with the first ever World Travel Green Awards' "World's Leading Conservation Company" award.
UK thumbs-up for Cape Town, SA
Cape Town was chosen as "Best World City" at the 2008 Telegraph Travel Awards, fending off competition from the likes of San Francisco and Sydney, while readers of the UK paper also voted South Africa in the top three of the "Best Non-European Country" category.
Reality TV adventures in SA
A new reality TV show, Expedition Unlimited, showcases the South African adventures of five models and five young people with physical disabilities on Llink television in the Netherlands.
Top honours for SA wine estate
South Africa's Kanonkop Wine Estate and vintner Abrie Beeslaar excelled at the 2008 International Wine and Spirit Competition in London, scooping the Winemaker of the Year award and, for the third time, the award for the best blended red wine.
Tourist arrivals keep growing
Almost 5.5-million foreign tourists visited South Africa in the first seven months of this year, a 7.8% increase over the same period in 2007, underscoring tourism's status as one of the fastest growing sectors of the country's economy.
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