Hey Vamp,

Please don't go to Johannesburg.
It it' too dangerous. As from 5 p.m. people stay at home as almost every day someone is shot on the streets.

Until 2 days ago I was in capetown and I met some people who lived in Johannesburg and told me these info.

I recommend you: Please go to capetown.

You can do by bike many beautifull roads:
The gardenroute: you must have seen it.
The wine route!!!
You have the table mountain, lionshead etc.
And you have good beaches in this area.

Es gibt kein helmpflicht.

We rented MTB for 4 days and we had 2 flat tires.
So take enough material with you to repare them. You will find many wooden 'needels' from trees which even go through a MTB tire.

So, I hope you can still change yr ticket otherwise take saa, or a low cost carrier such as KULULA.COM from JHB to CPT.

I's now summer there. We had sun and 30 degrees celcius. As the sun is almost vertically above you plse take a least a factor 15 to prevent you from sunburn!!!

Good luck.
Erwin