Immediately following the publication of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Khampepe report – which equated the Afrikaans language with racism and urged its total abolition – the Democratic Alliance (DA) wrote a letter to Het Jan Marias Fonds, which is the founding donor of the university. This fund is divided into two trusts: one of which is […]

The City of Cape Town has become South Africa’s first city to be accredited as a Ramsar Wetland City. The announcement was made at the 14th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Wetlands, known as the Ramsar Convention, being held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 to 13 November 2022. The city is […]

A high court interdict granted in the Western Cape High Court earlier this year that stopped development of the R4.6-billion River Club development, has been rescinded. This was because it was obtained “through fraud”. Judges Elizabeth Baartman, Hayley Slingers and James Lekhuleni ruled on Tuesday that Tauriq Jenkins, who purported to act on behalf of […]

On 3 May 2022, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) reported that convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester had been found dead in his cell at the Mangaung private prison in Bloemfontein. A mattress had been set alight in the cell in which Bester had been isolated. A body was beneath, burned beyond recognition. Six […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has made submissions to Parliament’s Section 89 independent panel assessing his conduct following a burglary at his Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo in February 2020. The panel is headed by former Chief Justice, Sandile Ngcobo, with other members of the panel being Judge Thokozile Masipa and Advocate Mahlape Sello. The Presidency […]

Here’s what’s coming up on Carte Blanche this weekend. You can watch the show on Sunday 6 November in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries on Showmax from Tuesday 08 November if you’re abroad. It was the story that gripped SA… The separation of conjoined twins Mpho and Mphonyana […]

Loan sharks can be found in neighbourhoods across South Africa, often targeting areas without easy access to banks or using personal networks to try and convince borrowers to turn to them in times of need. The problem is that these unlawful lenders are not registered, nor do they conform to lending rules, and can be, […]

About 200 people met on Thursday at the Brixton Multipurpose Centre for the first day of the National Conversation about Homelessness. There were representatives from the City of Johannesburg, the Gauteng provincial government and non-governmental organisations. There were also homeless people. The event is hosted by the Johannesburg Homelessness Network (JHN) and supported by the […]

Waves for Change has received the Laureus Sport For Health Recognition Award, a commendation from Laureus South Africa as part of their 20th-year birthday activities. The community-based organisation received the award in recognition of uplifting and investing in children and young people from vulnerable communities to help transform and create a better South Africa. Waves […]

The City of Durban announced on Tuesday that it has reopened more beaches along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline, which have been closed since August, following “improved water quality” in the region, however experts say new testing is needed immediately as there have been sewage spills since the municipality’s last tests were done. Durban’s famous beachfront has […]

Eskom has announced that Stage 1 and 2 load shedding will be implemented for the rest of this week. Stage 1 load shedding will be implemented every day from 5am until 4pm with Stage 2 then taking effect from 4pm until 5am. “The increase in load shedding is mainly due to the need to preserve […]

Two large wheelchair wheels and two dustbin wheels. Wooden planks, bearings, rods and nails. These are the materials children have used in Gugulethu to build go-karts to race through the township streets. They did so as part of a two-day competition, New Race Go-Kart Tournament, which ran in Gugulethu over the weekend. Hosted by Nulife […]

To all South Africans, but particularly those who have left South Africa some many years ago, and who left their parents or grandparents behind in South Africa – parents or grandparents who may have still been young, strong, vital, with many good years ahead of them at the time of your leaving. I am one […]

David Miller and Aiden Markram hit half-centuries to lead South Africa to a five-wicket win over India in Perth on Sunday. It puts the Proteas in pole position for a semi-final berth at the T20 World Cup, although they’re not getting over-confident. Markram says: “We’ve still got a massive game against Pakistan and we’ve got […]

Two years of hard teamwork, and considered capital investment, have paid off for Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West, a provincial heritage site renowned for its wine, hospitality and environmental initiatives. The 322-year-old estate has been announced the winner of the coveted Wine Tourism Services category in the 2023 Best of Wine Tourism Awards (BOWTA). […]

Here’s what’s coming up on Carte Blanche this weekend. You can watch the show on Sunday 30 October in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries on Showmax from Tuesday 01 November if you’re abroad. Trees vs Fynbos There’s a war brewing in the Western Cape, where tensions have been […]

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS opens in cinemas in South Africa today. One of the stars of the film – which won the coveted Palme d’Or Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year – is South African model and actress Charlbi Dean, who tragically died in late August, in New York where she lived some of […]

Over 71,000 members of the youth volunteer group ‘WE ARE ONE’, headquartered in South Korea, have set a new Guinness World Records™ title for the most people to sign up online as blood donors within 24 hours… and they were supported by hundreds of South Africans in SA. ‘WE ARE ONE’ which forms part of […]

The Warriors of Wildlife environmental organisation – founded by former South African expat Lionel de Lange – has completed a successful rescue mission, extracting two long-suffering lions from the Ukrainian war zone recently. The two “prisoners of war” were collateral damage in the conflict between Russia and its neighbours and were locked away in cages […]

Showmax has just dropped the teaser for the third and final season of The Wife, their multi-award-winning, record-breaking, Twitter-topping telenovela. The smash hit Showmax Original returns with its most explosive season yet on 10 November 2022, with three episodes dropping every Thursday into 2023. Season 3 centres on two star-crossed lovers: Tswana doctor Naledi Montsho […]

A robot designed, created, and programmed by a group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High in Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, will be entered into the 2022 World Robot Olympiad in the RoboSports category. A team from Sinenjongo High School in Joe Slovo Park in Cape Town will represent South Africa at the World Robot […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes today’s judgment in the High Court, which upheld the rule of law, and showed Speaker of Council, Cllr Colleen Makhubele, and the ANC acted illegally, dishonestly and unconstitutionally by effectively staging a coup in hastily removing the duly elected Executive Mayor of Johannesburg and Members of the Mayoral Committee… writes Dr […]

Here’s what’s coming up on Carte Blanche this weekend. You can watch the show on Sunday 23 October in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries on Showmax from Tuesday 25 October if you’re abroad. “These are challenging times, so who’d deny us the distraction of an occasional bout of […]

South Africa will resolve its electricity challenges, says President Cyril Ramaphosa. “Much as we are still dealing with the challenges of load shedding with Eskom, if we look through the tunnel, we see the light. We are going to resolve our energy challenges,” said President Ramaphosa during his walkabout tour at the Redstone Solar Plant in […]

Yoliswa Dwane, co-founder of Equal Education, died of cancer on Friday. She was 40. Dwane grew up in the township of Dimbaza in King William’s Town. Committed to her own education, she overcame her disadvantages to graduate with a law degree from the University of Cape Town in 2007. In 2008 she co-founded Equal Education […]