We usually go for 3 months from January. Didn’t go last year. Spoken to SA friends, they say come. Love to go in January. Would like your thoughts, especially Cloverjo
If your already boosted and allowed to go and can put up with the paperwork, testing, masks etc and any quarantine then i'd go if you can afford it, its as safe over there as it is in UK now, just take care when there
you'd best speak to Boris, but SA is the home of Omicron and it's almost impossible to say where the world will be at any time soon. You'll run the risk of not getting back if the rules suddenly change, as they have before.
Our gardener usually does the same as you, but he's gone to Oman instead this winter.