South Africa’s women’s national football team has made history Tuesday night by qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup for the FIRST time ever. World Cup bound ✈️ @FIFAWWC @CAF_Online pic.twitter.com/9BsAECfDUC — SAFA.net (@SAFA_net) November 27, 2018 This comes following their 2-0 win over Mali tonight in the AWCON 2018 semi-finals in Ghana. Banyana […]

South African expat rugby winger DTH (Daniel Tailliferre Hauman) van der Merwe scored two tries for Canada on Friday, ensuring that Canada has now booked its place at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Scoring two out of the team’s three tries, van der Merwe’s effort took Canada to a 27-10 victory over Hong […]

South Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, has been awarded an international Doctorate of Business Administration by the prestigious Henley School of Business, University of Reading in the UK. Henley School of Business said they were delighted to announce the award for Gordhan, and that “he is the first South African to receive this […]

Hope abounds for South Africa’s lions as a new Parliamentary report has called for an end to captive lion breeding in South Africa! The news has been welcomed by local and international conservationists and NGOs, and the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Environment, Phillemon Mapulane, has been praised for his part in getting the […]

The travel time between Maputo and Kosi Bay has just been DRASTICALLY reduced… from six hours to 90 minutes! Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi today officially opened the new road that connects Maputo and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. It includes a 3km twin-tower suspension bridge – Ponte Maputo-Catembe or Maputo-Catembe Bridge – that extends 680 m […]

Well known South African journalist and former newspaper editor, Angela Quintal, posted a cry for help on Facebook on Wednesday evening, saying: “SOS we are being taken away for interrogation in Dar. We don’t know why. Taken away from Southern Sun Hotel.” (Update: South African journalist released in Tanzania) Quintal, who is normally based in […]

Watch below as a class of Grade 4 schoolchildren in Indonesia sing Shosholoza in beautiful harmony. The video of the children – aged between 8 and 10 – was filmed by South African expat Cheryl Shelley Wevell, who is the Junior Section Art teacher at Sekhola Mutiara Harapan. Cheryl, who has been in Indonesia for five […]

The last time I was in South Africa was five years ago for Christmas… but a few weeks ago I stepped aboard South African Airways’ new Airbus A330-300 to head home for a week’s holiday. Based on news reports, I was expecting the worst. But what a joyful surprise it was! Both SAA and SA. […]

South Africans are renowned for their passion and ambition… and Kael Wildemann proves it starts when we’re young! The 7-year-old South African expat is on a mission to become the first kid to visit all seven continents by the age of seven (7for7), and in so doing to also become the youngest kid to visit […]

A South African expat living in the US recently discovered she was a sperm donor child. She is now on a mission to find the former Wits Medical School student who donated his sperm. Another South African expat, a medical practitioner living in the UK, was once a sperm donor from Wits. Below they each speak […]

A HUGE congratulations to Richard Wright… South Africa’s World Ironman 70.3 inspiration! As many SAPeople readers will know, Richard has brain cancer and his health wasn’t so great in the months leading up to the race. Ten days before the event, he revealed on Facebook: “Sadly, my health has deteriorated again and I’m into round […]

Reigning Miss South Africa 2018, Tamaryn Green, has bravely spoken about her battle with Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) after staying silent for years, fearing the stigma that surrounds the illness. “It was the 23rd of June 2015 when I was diagnosed with pulmonary Tuberculosis,” she says, “and just like that my life changed.” In a campaign […]

A brave Engen petrol station cashier is South Africa’s latest hero. Lawrence Kananji, who originates from Malawi and now lives in the Western Cape, risked his own life to rescue a woman who had been attacked in Cape Town. Lawrence’s brave actions came to the attention of South Africans when Glenn Trevor Skip Bradfield posted […]

South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) will today meet with the US Embassy to address the tweet from United States President Donald Trump on land expropriation and crime in South Africa… which the American leader referred to as “farm seizures” and “large scale killing of farmers”. While some people welcomed Trump’s tweet, […]

South African legend and musician Johnny Clegg has always moved us with his music… but this week, he’s touching South Africans with his brave words and honesty, revealing the latest updates – and challenges – in his personal and professional journey. The words have struck a chord with South Africans who have shared their own […]

JOHANNESBURG – Some Nike stores were closed in South Africa on Wednesday after public outcry over a racist comment by a Johannesburg man, Adam Catzavelos, who is reportedly married to a Nike Africa manager. Nike declined to comment on the store closures, and did not respond to media requests sent by SAPeople last night, but […]

A collection of 21 extraordinary, colourful and attention-grabbing rhino sculptures have been installed in London… with the intent of drawing attention to the severe threat of poaching to their survival. Tusk conservation group said yesterday, following the launch, “Watch out London, the rhinos are here!” Ronnie Wood, from the Rolling Stones, is one of the […]

A South African man, who appears to be the husband of a Nike Africa brand manager, has filmed himself boasting about being on a beach in which there is not a black person in sight. To make what was already a shocking statement even worse, he uses the k-word. It didn’t take long for Tweeters […]

Durick van Blerk and his childhood sweetheart, Cleo Adonis, were expecting their first child next month. But on Sunday 12 August, he was allegedly shot while crayfishing off Hout Bay, trying to earn some extra money to build a family home. The 26-year-old’s body is still missing, and there has been no admission from the […]

If you love wildflowers, you will fall in love with South Africa’s Western and Northern Cape right now – this year the regions are experiencing a spectacular wildflower season, with fields of wall-to-wall yellow, pink, purple, orange and white wild flowers stretching as far as the eye can see. Two prime spots to view the […]

It’s World Photography Day today – Sunday 19 August 2018, but if you’re lucky enough to live in, or be visiting South Africa for a beautiful holiday… you’ll know that every day is World Photography Day. From the sunsets in Gauteng to the dolphins in KwaZulu-Natal, from the Protea flowers across the country to the […]

Namibians are celebrating tonight as its national rugby team – the Welwitschias – secured a coveted spot in the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan! They will join South Africa in Pool B. The team played Kenya in Windhoek on Saturday during their final 2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup clash… which was also a qualifier […]

South Africa’s Springboks beat Argentina’s Pumas 34-21 – scoring six tries which earned the Boks a bonus point – at King’s Park in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on Saturday, winning the opening test of the Rugby Championship. It wasn’t looking great at half-time with the Pumas leading 14-10 in what has become an uncomfortable slow-burn trend with […]

An explosive BBC World News documentary premieres today around the world – lifting the lid on the alleged links between rhino poaching in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, and the alleged corruption within KZN courts and its national parks. BBC Africa Correspondent Alastair Leitheid investigates bribes allegedly paid to a court syndicate, and reveals the magistrates […]

South African expat and US Talk Show host, Trevor Noah, has posted a warm tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who passed away yesterday at the age of 76. Franklin, who had pancreatic cancer, was surrounded by her family and friends in Detroit. Noah recalled growing up in South Africa listening to Franklin […]