The accommodations can offer a place for you to come back to your senses, especially after long and busy days.  If your itinerary here is business-oriented, or simply pleasure, there is still a lot to take in in one day, and it’s nice to have sumptuous surroundings to come back to.  They offer a constant source of refreshment and rejuvenation, and there are also spectacular amenities to make things even nicer.  After enjoying a workout and a fantastic meal, you’ll feel revitalized and ready to see more of this amazing country.  If you get a chance to check out some live music, and everyone absolutely should when they’re here, give a thought and a care to the memory of South Africa’s jazz great Mankunku.

Winston Manjunku Ngozi died in October of 2009, at 66 years of age.  He was well-regarded as the greatest tenor sax player in the country, and one of the best in the world.  Ngozi had an extraordinary life, by all accounts.  He started playing when he was a boy, and reached a level of fame where all the great players wanted to work with him when they were visiting.  In the 1960s, at a time when others of his generation were heading off to Europe to learn new forms, he chose to stay in Cape Town where he was from, and in a famous episode, one night when he was playing at Cape Town City Hall with an all-white band, it was against apartheid laws to have a mixed band, so he played out of sight behind a curtain.  He was alive to see many of the historical changes in his native country, and he always fought to make things right, and made some heavenly songs in his heavenly quest.