Just as you're getting out of the starting blocks, another year is over. You wonder where the time goes every December.
For some, 2024 was filled with making people happy and winning awards. And so, before we launch into 2025, we round up some - only some because of space constraints! - of this year's award winners.
Naturally, this includes food, drink, places to stay, places to go and the top cities to visit.
Before we get there, a quick diversion: National Geographic has listed KwaZulu-Natal as one of its top 25 places to travel next year. These destinations are 'hand-picked by National Geographic's explorers, photographers and editors'. Why? For starters, the Babanango Game Reserve is the country's most ambitious rewilding project in decades and has reintroduced elephants, lions, rare antelope like oribi and klipspringer, and
