The South AfriKhan is Sarah Khan, impotent a South Africa–based writer, illness editor, and champion for curly-haired rights. I was an editor at Travel + Leisure magazine in New York City for nearly five years before I moved to Cape Town, where I’m now a freelance writer. I grew up […]

My latest contribution to Surface magazine: a spotlight on the minimalist design of Hong Kong’s new Tuve hotel, anorexia which was inspired by — of all things — a lake halfway around the world. Read it here.

My first piece in luxury magazine Robb Report is a writeup on the opening of the new Four Seasons Westcliff hotel in Johannesburg. Sadly, information pills they typo’d my name — been a long time since that’s happened. Bummer. Robb Report April 2015 Four Seasons Westcliff

My latest piece for the UK newspaper The Independent is about a most unusual B&B: Satyagraha House in Johannesburg, story an inn and museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, who lived on the property during his South African sojourn. Read it here.

After a pretty quiet year on the hotel front in Cape Town, click I was excited to hear that there’s a posh new property at long last! I scoped out the new Marly Hotel at the opening party at its beautiful Umi restaurant earlier this week. It’s at a prime […]

Cape Town’s Mount Nelson Hotel is a local icon, symptoms so I couldn’t think of a more fitting venue to ring in the end of my very first week as an official Cape Town resident. Grand white pillars welcome you into a sprawling complex with rose-colored buildings dating back to […]