Western Cape ER24 paramedics helped rescue a paraglider from a precarious cliff this evening near Brenton-on-Sea. According to ER24 Spokesperson Pieter Rossouw the paramedics “showed exceptional skills earlier this evening when they assisted in the rescue of a paraglider who had fallen from a cliff”. The female patient allegedly did not get enough height when she […]

British entertainer Ronnie Corbett has passed away at the age of 85 after suffering from ill-health for the last couple of years. The comedian, who was popular around the world including in South Africa, was best known for being one half of the Two Ronnies comedy sketch on television. Western Cape radio presenter (Magic 828am) Brian […]

An Australian paramedic who made news when he and his doctor wife spent their honeymoon in South Africa – volunteering in local hospitals and handing out gifts to the homeless on Christmas Day – returned to Perth with a little more than he bargained for. A gift from a bot fly in Botswana! Nathan Haynes told SAPeople: “A week […]

My best friend died in a field of cosmos one Easter in South Africa. She was thrown from the back of the car in which she was sitting, as it hurtled into a broken-down vehicle ahead of it. She was on her way back to Joburg from the bush, and admiring the flowers seconds before they […]

South African President Jacob Zuma has jetted into Europe, on a day when the continent has again been shocked by terrorist attacks. The Islamic State (IS) group has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks, in Brussels today that killed more than 30 people, and injured over 180. A South African teenager, studying in Europe, told SAPeople he and […]

Four days ago there was a terrorist attack in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), in a resort town called Grand Bassam not far from the capital city of Abidjan. About 19 people were killed, plus the six gunmen who were reportedly affiliated with Al-Qaeda. My friend Henrike Grohs was one of the people killed… I hadn’t spoken with Henrike in […]

Reactions to the confirmation by Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Jonas, that members of the Gupta family (who are renowned to have close ties with President Zuma) “offered me the position of Minister of Finance to replace then Minister Nene” have been met with outrage and – of course – humour in South Africa! Here are 15 of the top tweets: […]

Check out this awesome footage of a leopard in South Africa returning to a spot in the bush to retrieve his precious – and rather prickly – meal…a porcupine. Stan Sanetra‎, who hails from Kuilsrivier (Kuils River) in the Western Cape, captured the footage during a trip to the Kruger National Park in October last year. […]

Australia will be televising a Canal Plus documentary on Monday night that exposes the game hunting industry in South Africa, where hunting often takes place in fenced off private reserves leaving the animals – who have sometimes been tranquillised or tamed (even bred for the purpose, otherwise known as ‘canned hunting’) – trapped with little or […]

For the second time in two months an employee of South African Airways based at OR Tambo International Airport has been arrested for extorting money from a foreign national who was denied entry into the country due to invalid papers.   Gloria Ntombi Sidumo (42), an SAA employee, was arrested together with a security officer […]

The parents of the teenager who was murdered in Tokai Forest in Cape Town yesterday, 7 March 2016, have launched an appeal for help to track down their daughter’s killer. In an emotional interview with EWN, Florian and Shireen Blöchliger say they are personally offering a reward in the region of R50,000 for information leading to […]

This evening mourners in Cape Town gathered at Tokai Forest to hold a vigil for Constantia Waldorf schoolgirl, Franziska Blöchliger, the 16-year-old who was brutally murdered in Tokai Lower Forest yesterday afternoon, Monday 7 March 2016. Edward Robbins, who was at the vigil, reported there were “several thousand people walking in total silence”. Watch video: Cars were parked […]

CAPE TOWN – A young teenager was attacked and killed in Tokai forest on Monday afternoon, according to the local crime watch. A spokesman for crime watch in the nearby neighbourhood of Kirstenhof said on a news report on Tuesday that the 15-year-old girl had gone out with her mother and some other people but had separated from them. Her […]

YouTube is filled with videos of scared cats, rabbits…and even a woodchuck (groundhog) hiding in the engine of cars, but a family in Africa were the ones who were scared when they found something larger and more dangerous hidden in their bonnet – a massive African rock python. Judging by the car registration plate, the […]

The South African Constitutional Court has ruled that Oscar Pistorius is denied leave to appeal against his conviction for murdering Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. The verdict was upgraded from culpable homicide to murder on 3 December 2015, when the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that Judge Thokozile Masipa and her lower court had not correctly […]

Three weeks after Cyclone Winston left tens of thousands homeless in Fiji, South African expat Claude Hall reveals what he and others have been going through since the category five storm – the worst ever recorded in the southern hemisphere – ripped through the South Pacific country leaving 44 dead and 62,000 homeless (that’s 7 percent of Fiji’s population). Unicef […]

Clearly the US ambassador in South Africa has a sense of humour, if his tweets over the past few days are anything to go by, as he has been faced with accusations by the African National Congress that the United States is fomenting regime change in South Africa. Along with a picture of Oprah Winfrey in one of her […]

If you haven’t already watched it – here’s  possibly the most popular video to come out of South Africa this week: Chief Whip of the Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen letting the government have it… He was speaking in Parliament during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) reply sessions, which have seen some other interesting speeches […]

Once again I found myself alongside some of Cape Town’s finest. Yesterday afternoon – Wednesday 17/02/16 – I drove up to the Koeberg Nature Reserve to document the brave efforts of our Firefighting Crews. The blaze had already made its way East of the reserve and was flaring up at various spots. One incident was too […]

A long-serving member of staff at Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (Ezemvelo) has tragically been killed by a sick lioness at Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park (HiP). The fatal attack occurred this morning. Ezemvelo published an official statement on its facebook page this afternoon saying it had “sadly learnt of the death of one of its long serving employees” who was fatally […]

HARARE – An American plane carrying cargo destined for the SA Reserve Bank has been impounded in Harare after a dead body was found on board, reportedly after blood was seen dripping from the plane during a refueling stop. ​”The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is aware of an aircraft carrying a SARB consignment that stopped in Harare […]

President Jacob Zuma has assigned three Ministers to provide support to the families of miners who are still trapped at Lily Farm in Barberton. In a sign that hopes are fading of finding the trapped miners alive, the Presidency announced today that the President has assigned the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mosebenzi Zwane, the Minister in the […]

Dave McFarland was just another typical South African. Nicknamed Dawie, he was loved and adored by his friends, family and colleagues at Boehringer Ingelheim. And tragically he has become yet another typical SA crime statistic, a murder that’s not even shocking and unusual enough anymore to make national news. Two armed robbers broke into his home in […]

The South African survivor of the helicopter in Tanzania, which was shot down by poachers two weeks ago, has spoken exclusively to SAPeople about the night of the shooting in which his friend and colleague – British pilot Roger Gower – was fatally wounded. Nick Bester – who grew up on a farm in the Free […]

The search continues in South Africa for three trapped miners at Lily mine, in Barberton, and the nation has been called upon to pray for the missing miners and their families as rescue efforts enter Day 6. Hopes were sadly fading Wednesday since the two men and a woman have been trapped underground with no food or […]