Woman Loses Life in Tsitsikamma National Park

Tourist Passes Away After Fall in Tsitsikamma National Park

By SAPeople Contributor 24-06-21 15:25

A female tourist tragically fell and died in the Tsitsikamma National Park on Wednesday. The woman, believed to be in her 50s, fell on a trail leading to the suspension bridge in the park, according to the South African National Parks (SANParks). “The Park Rangers and National Sea Rescue Institute successfully retrieved the body of […]

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SA Requests Investigation into Pretty Yende’s Ordeal with French Police

By SAPeople 24-06-21 16:51

The South African Embassy in Paris has written to French authorities requesting a thorough investigation into the incident at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport in which SA’s international opera singer Pretty Yende was allegedly mistreated and verbally abused. The incident took place on Monday 21 June 2021. As reported by SAPeople, Yende wrote on social […]

SADC Troops to Combat Mozambique Terrorism

Southern African Countries Agree to Send Troops to Combat Mozambique Terrorism

By SAPeople 24-06-21 00:19

President Cyril Ramaphosa and other Southern African heads of state agreed on Wednesday to the deployment of the SADC’s Standby troops to Mozambique to combat the horrific terrorism that has rocked northern parts of the country. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) met in Maputo to consider the SADC’s proposed response to address the attacks […]

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Memes and Jokes About President Ramaphosa’s ‘Stolen’ iPad

By Cassie Jo 23-06-21 15:04

When the President’s iPad went missing in Cape Town yesterday, as he was about to deliver a keynote address about the Transnet National Ports Authority on live TV, he instead delivered a humorous monologue about how his iPad had been ‘stolen’. He was of course joking (although visibly a little shocked). It didn’t take South […]

SA detects over 15 400 new COVID-19 cases

SA Covid-19 Update: 11 093 new COVID-19 cases

By Guest Contributor 23-06-21 10:10

A total of 46 893 COVID-19 tests were conducted on Tuesday, with 11 093 new cases detected. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this represents a 23.7% positivity rate, pushing the number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 843 572. Of the latest infections, the majority are from Gauteng (67%), followed by the Western Cape […]

SARS seizes illicit cigarettes worth R6m

SARS Destroys Thousands of Illicit Cigarettes Worth Millions

By SAPeople 23-06-21 09:38

The South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) destroyed over 2,000 master boxes of illicit cigarettes, valued at R17.4 million on Tuesday, it announced in a statement. SARS director for customs border operations, Beyers Theron, said the cigarettes were either illicitly imported or illicitly manufactured in the country. They were seized and destroyed by a government inter-agency […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the establishment of the Transnet National Ports Authority

Ramaphosa Announces Independent Ports Authority to Revamp SA Ports System

By SAPeople 22-06-21 14:51

President Cyril Ramaphosa today announced the establishment of the Transnet National Ports Authority as an independent subsidiary of Transnet. Following his visit to the Port of Cape Town, the South African President said: “This is an important part of the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan… The weak performance of our ports is the result of […]

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SA Covid-19 Update: Over 9 000 New COVID-19 Cases

By SAPeople Contributor 22-06-21 10:36

South Africa has reported 9 160 new COVID-19 cases, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). There were 36 858 COVID-19 tests conducted on Monday. This translated to a 24.9% positivity rate, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1 832 479. Of the latest infections, the majority were found in Gauteng (6 […]

SA Opera Singer Pretty Yende Paris police

SA Opera Singer Pretty Yende in Shocking Encounter with Paris Police

By SAPeople 24-06-21 11:32

South Africa’s internationally renowned opera singer Pretty Yende has described a horrific account of her experience at the hands of police officials at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris yesterday, Monday 21 June 2021. Yende (36) is in France to perform in La Sonnambula opera at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. It was just five years […]

WHO to Establish Covid Vaccine Hub in South Africa

WHO to Establish Covid Vaccine Hub in South Africa with SA Consortium

By SAPeople 21-06-21 19:35

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium to establish its first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub. The SA consortium comprises Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The move follows WHO’s global call […]

Melville's 7th Street Named One of the Top 30 Coolest Streets in the World

Melville’s 7th Street Named One of the Coolest Streets in the World

By SAPeople 21-06-21 16:57

Melville’s 7th Street in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been named the 12th coolest street in the world in a Time Out survey which was based on the opinions of 27,000 city-dwellers worldwide. It’s the first time Time Out has featured a Coolest Street guide, and Main Road, Kalk Bay, in the Western Cape was also […]

Gauteng Hospital Shortages Endangering Lives in Third Wave

Gauteng Hospital Shortages Endangering Lives with ‘Tsunami of New Cases’

By SAPeople 21-06-21 16:21

As Covid-19 cases rise rapidly, Gauteng Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi claims that hospitals are “still able to cope with the pressure at this stage”… but it’s an open secret in the province, amongst concerned friends and family, that some patients are being turned away. Others are sitting for two days in a chair, waiting for […]

Diamond Rush as Fortune Seekers Flock to Village Near Ladysmith, South Africa

No Diamonds! Just Quartz Crystals, Illegal Mining and Desperate Folk

By SAPeople 20-06-21 21:56

An investigative team has revealed that sadly, the ‘diamonds’ that fortune seekers thought they had found in a village near Ladysmith, South Africa, were nothing more than quartz crystals. The team was deployed to investigate and identify the stones in KwaHlathi village following a ‘diamond rush’ last week which saw over 1,000 people from around […]

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Baboons Belong Campaign Launched After Tragic Death of Philemon

By SAPeople 20-06-21 18:00

Photos are pouring in from around South Africa and the world, with the words “Baboons Belong” written on the palms of people’s hands, to raise awareness for a vastly improved management of these iconic animals in the Western Cape who currently face death if they don’t behave according to a set of what some people […]

Ivermectin sent back to the worms by medicines regulator

AfriForum Pressurises SA Authorities to Provide Ivermectin Review Info

By SAPeople 20-06-21 11:33

AfriForum has sent a formal PAIA application to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 (MAC) and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to obtain documents and information from these organisations that relate to their review of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. As much of the country enters a third wave […]

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