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Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. JOHANNESBURG—In...

Hydroquinine, bleach, lime juice: take your pick. Each of them will lighten your skin and also leave you with inflammation or ochronosis or worse. How far would you go to have the best butt in town? In 21st century South Africa, Fumi May wonders why...

This is the story of Kobus and Marina Britz, who in 2011 packed their BMW R1200GS and began traveling form Durban, South Africa, all the way to John O’Groats in Scotland. ← Click here to read Part 5 Thursday, April 28, 2012 A new day and...

3 Decades | 3 Styles | 429 Pairs The second RUN THRU TIME launch took place last night in Johannesburg, highlighting the 90s execution, based on the adidas ZX 5000 running shoe. First released in 1989, the adidas ZX 5000 running shoe became established...

It was 10 a.m. on a bright spring morning in Johannesburg, and just outside my apartment, the zombie horde was growing restless. They shrieked and wailed, clawing at their tattered gray clothes and surging toward the walls around them. As they thrashed...