The AFCON South African end of
season retail sale brings fantastic bargains to football fans in malls across
the length and breadth of South Africa
Imported furniture, designer
clothes, kitchenware, computers, techno gadgets, audiovisual equipment, jewelry
…. whatever you are looking for, you will find it in South Africa.
From big, bright air-conditioned
shopping malls to street vendors selling home-grown vegetables, you can buy
anything and everything in our cities and towns, which each have landmark shopping
hubs where all the major retail chains, and many others, are trading.
Edgars, Clicks, Mr Price,
Foschini, Stuttafords, Truworths and Woolworths are just some of the retail
chains in South Africa that you may be familiar with. In-between are dozens of
other globally recognised retailers, including top-end international stores
like Zara, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and The Body Shop, and IT brands like Apple and
Vodacom.
And then there’s the infinite
charm of independent shops and retailers, too. These are smaller business that
are big on choice, personalised service and variety in everything from designer
baby gear to bathroom accessories; footwear to collectable books; kitchen
gadgets to high-end computers and smart phones; and hand-crafted chocolates to diamond,
gold and other precious trinkets to adorn yourself with.
All five AFCON host cities offer
at least one mall experience, and a chance to shop till you drop, finding
excellent bargains along the way.
An added and exciting bonus is
the fact that if you come to South Africa for AFCON, you will be in the country
during a nationwide end of season retail sale in
January 2013 where South African Tourism has formed a partnership with VISA and
hundreds of malls across the length and breadth of the country to bring
fantastic special offers to all visiting AFCON fans.
In Johannesburg, Sandton City is
one of Africa’s leading and most prestigious shopping centres, home to close to
300 leading local and international retailers. This is an energetic hub of Afro-cosmopolitan
glamour - international shopping with South African flair. If fashion is your
passion, head north of Sandton to Fourways Mall shopping centre, where you’ll
find 50 retailers focusing exclusively on fashion. Here is where you’ll find
your style.
Budget shopping might be a more
pressing agenda, and again there are dozens of shopping centres to choose from
in each host city, most notably the Oriental Plaza and China Mall close to the
Johannesburg city centre, and the Victoria Street market in Durban.
In Durban are two distinctive
malls, Gateway, which is the largest shopping centre in the
southern hemisphere, and The Pavillion, each home to hundreds of retail
outlets selling everything from fashion, homeware and curios to jewelry,
leather goods and audiovisual equipment.
In Port Elizabeth, the economic
hub of the Eastern Cape, is the one kilometer Greenacres Mall, which is
currently undergoing a US$48 million facelift to get it looking its best 9and
being its most efficient) in time for the AFCON crowds. In Nelspruit,
meanwhile, is the Riverside Mall, Mpumalanga’s premier
shopping centre, as well as the newer I’langa Mall, with direct access off the
N4 highway.
In
Rustenburg is the Waterfall Mall, with 133 shops selling just as diverse an array
of products as its bigger counterparts.
So wherever you travel to support
your team, South Africa invites you to indulge in some retail therapy, and take
home some excellent value-for-money purchases to add convenience and sparkle to
life after the tournament.
ENDS.