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South Africa, Mountain Country. 10 of the Best

By SAPeople Staff Writer 14-06-16 17:02

As the winter’s first snows fall on South Africa’s mountains, lots of us remember something we often forget – ours is a land of amazing mountains. Here are 10 of them, many covered in snow (with a surprise 11th at the end). We also remember that the Mountain Club of South Africa has this year been hiking these […]

Cape Town Chef Vies for Title on US Cooking Show “Chopped” VIDEO

By SAPeople Staff Writer 13-06-16 19:43

Talented Cape Town chef and photographer Bruce Marais is one of four competing chefs on the latest episode of the hugely popular US channel Food Network’s show “Chopped”. In the show the chefs are given a less than obvious combination of ingredients to quickly transform into an appetiser, an entree and a dessert, with one of the four being eliminated after […]

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Minister Asks SA Not to Condemn Firefighters Returning to SA

By SAPeople Staff Writer 13-06-16 19:30

The almost 300 South African firefighters deployed in Canada to help with wildfires there have been demobilised and are arriving home tomorrow, according to the minister of environmental affairs, who asked South Africa not to condemn the firefighters for what happened in Canada. “Condemning them for disappointing us can only demoralise them despite their successful track-record,” minister […]

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Zuma’s Legal Bills Over R1 Billion, Says Carolus WATCH

By SAPeople Staff Writer 13-06-16 13:01

Former ANC secretary general Cheryl Carolus says that President Jacob Zuma is dividing the country and African National Congress for his own enrichment, and that his legal bills have already reached R1 billion. “If you add up all the things that the president has serially (done), since pre-Polokwane, the legal costs, hundreds of millions each case,” Carolus told […]

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WATCH Spectacular Nighttime Take-Off Joburg to Perth

By SAPeople Staff Writer 13-06-16 12:05

For anyone who has been on a South African Airways flight – sitting way back in economy like many of us maybe – here’s a glimpse of what it’s like to be in the cockpit during take-off. This flight was a recent one from Johannesburg to Perth, Australia, on the A340-300. “Our long history of filming […]

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Cullinan Ancestor at US Auction Where SA Diamond Sets Record Price

By SAPeople Staff Writer 11-06-16 10:11

A diamond found in South African in 2014, the Cullinan Dream, has become the most expensive Fancy Intense blue diamond sold at auction, according to Christie’s. The diamond sold in New York this week for $25,365,000. In the audience was Mark Cullinan, an international jewelry dealer and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Cullinan, who discovered the Cullinan […]

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Free WiFi Starts on Cape Town’s MyCiti Bus Service

By SAPeople Staff Writer 11-06-16 09:07

The MyCiti bus service in Cape Town has launched a free WFfi service on a number of its buses, and will continue the rollout gradually. The programme will begin on Monday. MyCiti said in a statement on Thursday the pilot on-board wifi offering will provide each passenger on a number of buses in the city centre with 50MB of data […]

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Penny Sparrow Fined R150K for Racist Words Posted Online

By SAPeople Staff Writer 10-06-16 19:07

More than five months after KwaZulu-Natal realtor Penny Sparrow hit world headlines for posting a racist remark on Facebook about the black people on the beach over the festive season, she has been ordered to pay R150,000 to the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation. In her post Sparrow compared the beachgoers to monkeys, unleashing a […]

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“Disappointed” SA Firefighting Body Apologises to Canada

By SAPeople Staff Writer 10-06-16 18:51

Working on Fire, the South African group whose team of 281 firefighters went to help fight wildfires in Canada, said on Friday it was “extremely disappointed” with the turn of events this week when its team refused to work for two days over a pay dispute, which then “escalated into an international incident”. “To have a […]

WATCH As Refentse Does His Version of Laurika Rauch

By SAPeople Staff Writer 10-06-16 13:28

Refentse Morake, a Vereeniging youngster, didn’t find success overnight, but pretty close. Just over a year ago the high-school student was overheard singing by someone who recorded him on her cellphone, the clip quickly spread, and now, just over a year later, Refentse has a CD out and several professional tracks on YouTube. His latest video is a […]

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Think You Know Joburg? The 60-Second Quiz

By SAPeople Staff Writer 09-06-16 23:31

As Johannesburg celebrates one of its big birthdays (that’s one of the questions), the city is showing off its stuff more and more. It was recently called one of the “coolest” cities in the world (that’s another question, by whom?) and travellers are spending more than just one night there. In honour of all that – and […]

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Mango Loses Longtime CEO to Africa’s Low-Cost Upstart fastjet

By SAPeople Staff Writer 09-06-16 18:21

One South African airline’s loss is another African airline’s very valuable gain, it seems. Mango, the low-cost sister airline to South African Airways, is losing its CEO Nico Bezuidenhout, who many credit with the airline’s success while SAA stumbles from crisis to crisis. He is moving to the six-year-old African low-cost carrier fastjet, where he will also be CEO. […]

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SA Leaders Meeting Over Terror Threat Warning by US

By SAPeople Staff Writer 08-06-16 18:07

The security cluster of the South African government met on Wednesday to discuss a warning by the United States that shopping malls in Johannesburg and Cape Town could be a target for Islamic militants during Ramadan. In a statement, the presidency said it had “noted the security alert that the United States government has issued to its […]

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SA’s Latest Cheetah is the Fastest Computer in Africa

By SAPeople Staff Writer 08-06-16 21:05

South Africa’s CSIR has unveiled the fastest computer in Africa, which has been named Lengau, the Setswana for cheetah, it was announced on Tuesday. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Centre for High Performance Computing showed off the petaflops (PFLOPs) machine in Cape Town. “This is a supercomputer with processing speed capable of a thousand-trillion […]

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At Least 12 Joburg Coffee Shops that Out-Brew Starbucks

By SAPeople Staff Writer 09-10-16 22:52

On a recent trip to Johannesburg, curiosity took me to the new Starbucks outlet in Rosebank, South Africa’s first. I know Starbucks from the United States, and even though I’m not a big fan of their brewed coffee – it’s not as bad as people say it is, but just not for me – I do like their beans. What […]

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