After coming to the US 11 years ago, I met lots of folks from SA who seemed to be trying to re-create life as they knew it overseas, right down to the everyday foods. Big Mistake, IMO. You left SA, get over it, my friends! However.....Tea, a decent cup of tea...boy, that's the one thing I just missed so much. I love a good strong cup of tea, English breakfast tea if possible, brewed in a pot, served in a (pre-heated) tea cup with milk and sugar (milk added first). When it's done right, the colo(u)r of the tea as it comes out of the pot is a glorious reddish brown. Can't give it up. This insipid Lipton's tea and other brands...I could just weep.... and the way it's served...sad little tea-bag in a cup of luke warm water!! Oh.
King's supermarkets here in New Jersey sell the Marks & Spencer "St. Michaels" brand, and it's good. You get English breakfast, Earl Grey (over rated) and a Kenyan black tea (very very good) for next to nothing in price.
Now then, Rooibos tea may not be a real "tea" by some definitions, and it's an acquired taste, but it is wonderful stuff. Some company here has had the audacity to patent the name "Rooibos". That's like patenting the word "coffee", to me. What a cheek! You can bathe a baby in that tea - it works for curing dry skin. There are dozens of 'old wives' remedies based on that tea.