YAY!!! South Africa has been crowned the winner of The Rugby Championship 2019, after a massive victory against Argentina in Salta on Saturday night. “Thank you to our opponents, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand for another epic Castle Lager Rugby Championship! The road to the Rugby World Cup begins now…” said the Springboks afterwards. The […]

Following the murder last week of Cape Town horse rider Meghan Cremer, and coinciding with National Women’s Day in South Africa yesterday, women across the nation have come together like never before on social media… pleading with President Cyril Ramaphosa and demanding the SA government PLEASE make their country safe for women, girls, boys and […]

A young 20-year-old, who has sadly lost both his parents, is walking solo across South Africa – from Ermelo in Mpumalanga to Cape Town in the Western Cape – and blessing all the farmers whose land he passes on the way. He’s been walking since March and plans to arrive in Cape Town at the […]

The two men convicted of murder in the Coligny sunflower case, Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte, have been granted special leave to appeal directly to the Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein. UPDATE 27 Nov 2020: Coligny 2, Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte acquitted on all charges. The father of one of the men broke the […]

The body of a missing Cape Town woman, Meghan Cremer (30), was sadly found in the early hours of Thursday morning. Messages of condolences have poured in from friends and strangers for her family… as the search for Meghan had made news in South Africa and abroad, with friends in the UK even setting up […]

SAPeople is so excited to report that M-Net, kykNET and ShowMax are showcasing the groundbreaking, multiple award-winning STROOP in September! This announcement comes soon after the extraordinary documentary nabbed double nominations at the ‘Oscars’ of nature filmmaking! South Africa’s hard-hitting documentary film, STROOP – journey into the rhino horn war has been taking the world […]

Swellendam teenage golfer Megan Streicher has become the first female winner of the SA High School Championship, which is really fitting as August is National Women’s Month in South Africa. The 16-year-old from Somerset College made golfing history at Koro Creek Bushveld Golf Estate on Tuesday. According to a media release by GolfRSA, Megan scooped […]

Major Zizi Peters says she’s proud to be the First Flying Instructor of Colour in the South African Air Force. Her achievements – she’s also a military pilot – have been celebrated with a video interview posted to YouTube in August, National Women’s Month. Stationed at Air Force Base Langebaanweg, Major Peters says she’s proud […]

Watch this brilliant, brilliant performance by the Rustenburg High School Choir in South Africa, singing Queen’s famous Bohemian Rhapsody. WATCH VIDEO: Bohemian Rhapsody by Rustenburg High School As Joburg Public Relations consultant Georg Knoke told SAPeople: “Freddie Mercury smiles! What incredible talent! Bravo!” The conductor behind this mesmerising performance is none other than Ralf Schmitt, […]

Judgment was handed down in the Pretoria High Court, South Africa, today regarding the controversial lion bone export quotas from South Africa. The Court ruled in favour of the NSPCA, finding that the setting – by the Minister of Environmental Affairs – of the annual quotas in 2017 and 2018 was unlawful, constitutionally invalid, and […]

Nobel prize-winning author Tony Morrison passed away on Monday night, after a brief illness. She was, in the words of South Africa’s EFF, “a truth teller, a groundbreaking and visionary novelist, an essayist and a teacher”. Morrison’s publisher Alfred A. Knopf said in a statement on social media “We are profoundly sad to report that […]

At least 72 children were injured in South Africa on Tuesday morning, two of them critically, after the school bus they were travelling on overturned at Centocow, near Underberg. This has led to calls for safety inspections of all school transport services in KwaZulu-Natal. According to local reports, the injured children have been transported to […]

South African polo players took part in the second annual Lux Afrique Polo Day in Richmond, London on Saturday… to celebrate polo – the Sport of Kings – and African culture, alongside Kenyan and Nigerian players. “We like to think this is our African Ascot where you can come every year, wear your best outfits […]

If you live in Johannesburg and are planning to take your family to Disneyland for Christmas, you may be disappointed. The wait for US visas just got a lot longer. In June the US Mission in South Africa encouraged all SA residents planning a trip to the US to apply for their visa as early […]

A distraught Cape Town man, Paul Cremer, has issued an appeal for helping in finding his missing sister, Meghan Cremer (30) who was last seen on Saturday 3 August 2019. In a Facebook post he said: “She was last seen leaving her home in Ottery, Cape Town on 3 August around 6pm, driving her white […]

If you have the time, there are some elderly people in a care home in England who would love to receive a postcard from South Africa. Naomi Daglish-Gage‎ from Woodstock Care Home in Norfolk posted a message on Sunday night to a brilliant Facebook group called Postcards of Kindness. She said: “If anyone is travelling […]

Two South Africans were among the world’s bravest few sports people to compete in and finish the epic and gruelling Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in Norway this weekend. It’s the most extreme triathlon on the face of the earth… Each year, passionate athletes enter the lottery to compete. But only a few (263 this year) are […]

South African tennis player Raven Klaasen and his doubles partner, New Zealand’s Michael Venus, are through to the Finals of the Washington Open in the USA. The determined duo knocked out Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in two sets – 6-2, 7-6 – in the semi-finals at the ATP 500 tournament in Washington DC. It’s […]

South Africa’s Tourism Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, says she would like to reassure international tourists that it IS safe to travel to SA and that “their safety remains top priority for the South African government”. The Minister pointed out to international tourists that with regards to recent incidents (the brutal murder of a Ukrainian hiker in […]

After winning Gold in the 200m Breastroke in World Cup record-breaking time yesterday (2:22.35), South Africa’s?? Tatjana Schoenmaker has today – Saturday 3 August -won her second Gold medal in the 100m Breaststroke at the FINA Swimming World Cup in Tokyo, Japan. The 22-year-old South African swimmer finished in the top spot in a time […]

A teenager from South Africa – who was run over by a truck when he was just 5-years-old – has broken a world record at the World Para Athletics Junior Championships in Switzerland. An excited World Para Athletics said: “NEW WORLD RECORD for the 14-year-old South African Puseletso Mabote on the first day of our […]

A Western Cape woman’s post has gone viral, being liked over 22,000 times by South Africans who have been warmed and inspired by the spur-of-the-moment kindness of a petrol attendant called Life! Yolanda Flusk Jacobs took to social media a few days ago to relate the story of how she stopped off at a petrol […]

South African police officers fired rubber bullets into a crowd of violent protesters in Johannesburg CBD today, after the rioters attacked police who had responded to the protest in Rahima Moosa Street. Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar, Joburg Metro Police (JMPD) Spokesperson, said both the metro police and SAPS (SA Police Service) officers were attacked. Minnaar […]

Youth Employment Service (YES) CEO Tashmia Ismail-Saville has been presented with the South African Chamber of Commerce UK and Official Brand South Africa Play Your Part award for the “enormous contribution” she and her team are making towards driving employment and employability in South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa launched YES in March 2018. The initiative […]

In a BBC report this week, the British broadcaster labels Cape Town ‘Murder Town’ and describes it as a well-known “tourist hotspot where 8 people are murdered a day”, calling it one of the most divided and dangerous cities in the world. Watch the video below, and then read the article by Athol Williams, award-winning […]