The Silo Hotel – Voted Best City Hotel in Africa 2021. Here’s why. After being awarded Condé Naste ‘Best Hotel in the World’ for La Residence Hotel in 2013, the Bidens pitched for The Silo Hotel at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. They won the contract, up against some of the best hotel [...]
Botlierskop African Oasis that Redefines Conservation Botlierskop does it differently. Here’s a creative African perspective on conservation and sustainability, where ‘people-development’ forms part of a near-perfect symbiosis. The owner, Arnold Neethling is a builder of buildings, vision and of people. Arnold believes that true empowerment is training up people and letting go. [...]
Ellerman House Wine Gallery The Ellerman House wine gallery holds art pieces unlike any other wine cellar in Africa. A gigantic corkscrew sculpture holding several hundreds of bottles of wine, housed in a temperature controlled glass room. An entire wall, made up of 100 bronze frames, displaying the soil material from a [...]
12 Apostles Hotel African Treasure A South African hotel group that has won numerous international awards primarily because of its people. The sought out, African expertise and people-focus culture of the Twelve Apostles Hotel staff has been exported to the UK. This documentary presented by the Red Carnations Group Manager, Michael Nel, [...]
Ellerman House African Art Collection Genesis The documentary presents a history of artists of color in South Africa. The 5 pioneer artists being; George Pemba, Gerard Sekoto, Gerard Benghu, Ernest Mancoba and John Koenakeefe Mohl. These artists laid a foundation that influenced many great modernists and contemporary artists, such as internationally acclaimed [...]
Botlierskop African Cancer Research Initiative Botlierskop’s conservation efforts reaches out across Africa. It has been discovered by scientists that elephants are cancer resistant. Scientist Dr Charlot Vandevoorde has started an ambitious African project collaborating with Botlierskop, to find a possible link to human cancers, and hopefully contribute to bringing about a cure [...]
