Cape Town
Canal Walk is a shopping and entertainment complex with 400 shops, 18 cinemas and dozens of restaurants. It’s a good place to find hand-made leather and hide furniture, plus gifts and curios of all description.
Cavendish Square is a smaller, upmarket mall concentrating on high-end fashion.
Victoria Wharf, situated at the V&A Waterfront, has restaurants overlooking the bustling harbour, an art-house cinema and a number of stores offering top-quality South African art and objects.
Constantia Village is a Cape Dutch-style complex holding a handful of top-end stores – including a store that supplies locally made fashionable footwear and handbags - where ladies from the vineyard suburbs go to lunch and shop.
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The Pavilion shopping center
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Durban
The Gateway Theatre of Shopping is Durban’s flagship complex, a gigantic, space-age leisure and retail centre that offers the best of fashion, food, technology and lifestyle. For extreme sports enthusiasts there is a participative surf centre and a skateboard park.
In fashionable Westville, one of the city’s oldest suburbs, the Pavilion is a vast, multilevel shopping centre of lyrical design. Visiting all its upmarket retail and leisure outlets can take at least a day.
Johannesburg
Sandton City, one of South Africa’s first malls, has received more facelifts than Cher and looks just as good. A favourite haunt of tourists and well-heeled locals, it has 300 shops, plus the added bonus of Nelson Mandela Square, a piazza containing fountains and a famous statue of Mandela, surrounded by eateries and designer stores.
Rosebank Mall attracts trendy youngsters in droves and is a pleasant mix of indoor and outdoor shopping areas, offering a mix of clothing, electronic goods, books, music and esoterica.
Eastgate, Northgate, Westgate, Southgate, Cresta, East Rand Mall and Fourways Malls are similarly styled shopping behemoths in different areas of Johannesburg. So wherever you’re staying you’ll find a one-stop shopping centre offering every gift, memento and precious trinket you need. |
