South Africa

In both the contract of my current and previous jobs, it states that I will ordinarily be based in the London office, but occasionally my employer might need to send me somewhere else. In the previous twelve years, the furthest away that "somewhere else" has been has been Manchester in one direction, and Paris in the other. Now they want to send me to South Africa (and possibly later, if I haven't managed to convince them I'm the wrong person for the job, to Hong Kong).

(For the benefit of those that know what I'm passionate about, yes, I did try and persuade them to use things like Skype instead; my überboss responded with a thoughtful and sympathetic email but concluded that this time it is necessary to send me to South Africa. I do not consider this a resigning issue, certainly not if it's going to be this occasional.)

Since I am shlepping all this way, it strikes me I might as well make a holiday out of it and do a bit of tourism whilst I'm there. My überboss mentioned Kruger National Park, which is less than two hundred miles (as the crow flies) from Johannesburg, where I'll be, but that turns out to be in a malarial area, and googling the subject comes across as quite scary (malarial tablets in advance, insect sprays, stay inside at dawn and dusk, sleep under mosquito netting, ulp!)—plus of course it would render me unable to give blood for some time afterwards; so I'm wondering if there's anywhere else I could go on a big game safari that's not in a malarial zone? Any people familiar with South Africa reading this?

(Whilst I'm there, I expect I'll also go to Cape Town and do some tourism there and in its vicinity.)