South Arica has one of the most varied and unique coastlines on the planet. In fact, in just the stretch between Cape Town and J-Bay (8ish hours driving), there are more waves than you could surf in a ...

It’s one of the planet’s largest migrations and is fittingly described as the Greatest Shoal on Earth. South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal sardine run is a wondrous phenomenon that happens in the southern ...

Indiphile Osinachi, or Indie, as her friends call her, has followed an unlikely path to become a South African surfing phenom at just 15. When Indiphile Osinachi, known by friends as Indie, started ...

RABAT (Reuters Life!) - When three surf-mad South Africans set off in search of the perfect swell, they expected to run out of money and return to Cape Town after a few months. But as they ventured ...

I never imagined how much I would learn during my research for my book, "Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing." It was one eye-opening discovery after another. Women in every corner of the ...

It's been a fairly dismal season for big-wave surfing in Cape Town, South Africa. Last weekend saw a ray of hope, but that swell overpromised and under-delivered. This weekend, however, was clearly a ...

With a comforting nod and smile, Paul Sampson handed an ice-cold acai bowl to a man on a bus bench in Huntington Beach, who was strumming a guitar for whatever change people could spare. Sampson knows ...

Zama Ndamase, a 2009 Surfing South Africa Scholarship recipient, died today in a horrific shark attack. The 16-year-old was surfing with his brother, Avuyile, and other members of the local surf club ...