Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille, who is currently fighting to keep her mayoral position, released a statement Friday evening in response to comments made by the ANC at a press conference earlier today. She claims that the Bowman Gilfillan report is based on erroneous facts and findings. De Lille was suspended by the Democratic Alliance […]

The South African Weather Services (SAWS) has advised that a heat wave with persistently high temperatures is expected in the extreme north-eastern parts of the Northern Cape, the Free State, North West, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng until Monday (08 January 2018). Extremely hot conditions are expected over the Western Bushveld and Limpopo Valley until Monday […]

A South African tourist, believed to have been a 36-year-old woman, has reportedly died this morning in a hot air balloon crash near the ancient city of Luxor in Egypt. Her name has not yet been released. Seven other people were injured in the accident, and 12 remained unharmed, according to reports around the world. […]

Western Cape vlogger Adam Spires’ latest video, co-produced with TV personality Siv Ngesi, investigates the rumour that millions and millions of litres of Cape Town’s precious water – in the midst of the worst drought on history – are being purposefully released downstream. Spires and Ngesi say they visited Theewaterskloof Dam to debunk the rumour… […]

Whilst there has been much jubilation in Zimbabwe amongst white farm owners since former President Robert Mugabe was ousted, it appears not all is rosy. (Please see Update below.) The controversial policy of land seizure seemed to have changed since Emmerson Mnangagwa became the country’s new leader… and just a couple of weeks ago a […]

At least 14 people were tragically killed and almost 270 injured on Thursday morning in South Africa, when a passenger train collided with a truck and caught fire, between Hennenman and Kroonstad in the Free State. Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi visited the scene, and sent condolences to the victims’ families. He warned that the death […]

‘Pranksters’ have removed a new NSRI rescue buoy from the beach in Jeffreys Bay… putting lives at risk. The new Pink Rescue Flotation Buoys are stationed at unprotected beaches along the Southern Cape and Eastern Cape coastlines… and have already been responsible for one successful rescue at Wilderness. NSRI has appealed to the thieves who […]

South African struggle stalwart and national poet laureate, Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (popularly known as ‘Bra Willie’), sadly passed away today at the age of 79. Award-winning Western Cape poet Athol Williams has written the following dedication to him… HIS GENTLE BREATH Dedicated to Keorapetse Kgositsile His gentle breath gave shape to the deflated – we stood […]

The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Directorate says it will maintain high levels of visibility at beaches and other public areas until the South African school holidays wind down. Staff will be on high alert over the next two days in particular as the South African Weather Service (SAWS) has predicted very hot […]

DURBAN – Ethekwini Municipality has requested that the parents of three children, left on Durban beaches during the New Year long weekend, urgently make contact with authorities to be reunited with their children. Beaches were packed on 01 January 2018 and parents had been urged to make sure they took their child to a Child […]

KWA-ZULU-NATAL – The South African Police Services (SAPS) are appealing for help in finding a #Missing three-year-old girl. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, SAPS said: “Three-year-old Sphesihle Zama Dlamini attended a church service at Amandawe on 31 December 2017. “She was playing with other children, however, when her mother looked for her at about […]

When we were kids we would sing “rain, rain, go away, come back another day”… but today – especially if you live in Cape Town or on a farm in the Northern Cape – our hearts leap excitedly at the sight of drizzle and we pray for it to stay, longing for it to rain […]

A daring rescue mission took place on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday evening… but unfortunately two climbers are reported to have tragically died, whilst a third, their female companion, was rescued and lifted to safety by a cable car, after 22h00. Hundreds of tourists to the iconic mountain – where conditions […]

An elderly couple from London sailed right into a bureaucratic nightmare when their ship docked in Cape Town last week, and – thanks to a bureaucratic error – they were banned from entering South Africa for five years. The couple – Joan (88) and Alexander Klein (93) – were on a Crystal Cruise, sailing from […]

Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape has sadly lost its well known big elephant bull, Valli, who was found dead on Thursday morning, by Conservation Manager, John Adendorff. Adendorff spotted Valli while he was flying over the park, about five kilometres from Hapoor. According to South African National Parks (SANParks) Regional Communications Manager, […]

After a major thunder and hail storm in Johannesburg on Saturday, which caused devastating damage to buildings from Lenasia to Soweto, these rare Mammatus clouds – photographed by Raymond J. O’Connor  – formed over Pretoria. (These photos have not been photoshopped!) “They got the storm, we got the clouds,” he told SAPeople. “It rained for a […]

On Friday South Africa’s Constitutional Court delivered yet another blow to the country’s President, Jacob Zuma. ConCourt ruled that Parliament has violated its constitutional obligation to hold Zuma to account, by failing to determine whether he has breached section 89 of the Constitution. Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane said today: “This is a consequence of […]

South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz teamed up with FLOW to produce this video, giving visitors to Cape Town a (humorous) low down on how to save water in the drought-stricken Mother City. Welcome to #neighbourhoodwash… https://www.facebook.com/flowsa/videos/10156128474847834/

This heart-wrenching photo of an eight-week-old Labrador puppy in South Africa depicts one of many cruelty cases that Claws Animal-Welfare in Welkom, Free State, have had so far during  this festive season. This young dog was burnt with boiling water, according to Cindy Bortnowski, who runs non-profit charity Claws in Welkom with Rochelle Howard. Cindy told SAPeople […]

Supporters of the Khoisan 4, who are camping at the Union Buildings and holding a Hunger Strike, are calling on South Africans everywhere to please help the protesting men get what they need, so they can get home for Christmas. This is Day 15 of their Hunger Strike, and their health is deteriorating rapidly. The […]

Drought, protests, anger over the social grants payment system, and the collapse of Metrorail marked this year in South Africa. A man walks through Marikana in Philippi East, on 14 February 2017. A high-profile court case eventually resulted in the City of Cape Town being ordered to buy the land on which Marikana is located. […]

Watch below as President Jacob Zuma hears that his Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has won the ANC leadership race, and will replace him as ANC President instead of Zuma’s ex-wife Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. If a picture tells a thousand words, a video says even more… #ANC54 The Moment #Zuma hears #Ramaphosa is the new president […]

The hope was that in opening the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma would rise to the occasion, seize the moment of his last address as party president with honesty and leave something worthy of history. For posterity to cherish. It sounded as though he was taking […]

There were many haunting and heroic moments this year, all deepening my understanding of these experiences and propelling me to further pursue my quest for expressing our truth in an unseen world… writes Western Cape photographer JUSTIN SULLIVAN. Witnessing bravery in the path of destruction and experiencing the suffering of others, through all the heartache and […]

Former South African cricketer Pat Symcox, who represented his country 100 times, has lambasted DA and ANC ‘Fat Cats’ for not maintaining a sports club on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. And after posting his video less than 24 hours ago, many South Africans around the country have commented that the same state of ruin has […]