Thousands of South Africans on Facebook got caught on Monday by a hoax message warning of an imminent hacking attack by a person called Jayden K. Smith, and urging users to send the message to all their contacts. The message read: Please tell all the contacts in your messenger list not to accept Jayden K. […]

South Africa’s Carina Horn flew to a new South African 100-metre best on Friday… but there was one big problem blowing in the wind – an illegal tailwind. Horn was running at the Sotteville les Rouen national meeting in France. She clocked 11.05, which is 0.05ec inside the current best, held jointly by herself and […]

ENGLAND beat the Proteas by 211 runs inside four days in the first Test match which finished at Lord’s in London on Sunday. Set to make an unlikely 331 for victory the Proteas crumbled to 119 all out with Moeen Ali taking 6 wickets to give him 10 in the match. In truth, neither side’s […]

Standard Bank Proteas fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has been suspended for next week’s Trent Bridge Test after his accumulated demerit points reached four within a 24-month period following his latest breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for which he received a 15 per cent fine and one demerit point. During the opening day’s play […]

Tour guide, Francois Van Rensburg, has shared his true life story of an unfortunate – but very funny – incident at the Pretorius Kop Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park,  Mpumalanga, South Africa. Francois, who works for PenQuin Tours, outlined the course of events – which happened two weeks ago – on Facebook, which […]

Snake catcher extraordinaire, Jason Arnold, captured this wonderful footage yesterday as he caught a venomous puff adder, near Verulum in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. When he was called out to the property to remove the snake, Jason had no idea he would find a puff adder… particularly such a large specimen. She’s about 70cm long and […]

One month after the Knysna Day of Fire, today we had Berg wind conditions again and the wind has fanned the flames since last night… writes local Knysna resident and SAPeople contributor, ESTER BEUKES. “The smoke was all over the Eden District. A helicopter water bombing again and the firefighting teams busy. “Just before sunrise […]

Joe Root celebrated his debut performance as England’s Test match captain with his 12th career century on the opening day of the first Test match against the Proteas at Lord’s in London on Thursday. It was also his second century against South Africa and the higher of his two, beating the 110 he made at […]

The British PR agency – and ‘international reputation management’ company – that recently dropped the Gupta Family’s Oakbay Capital as a client, have sort of come clean with a statement today, admitting their horror at discovering some of the accusations levelled at them by angry South Africans (never mess with a South African!) are in […]

Miss South Africa, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, posted a video late Wednesday evening explaining why she was wearing gloves to hand out food to young children, and apologising to those who were offended. Demi-Leigh took part in a charity soup drive in Soweto yesterday as a volunteer… but was ridiculed, criticised and chastised for wearing gloves. The […]

There have been shocking reports on social media of over 20 rhino, possibly even 31, being brutally killed this past weekend in South Africa. All for their horns. To feed an insane belief amongst some in the Asian market (mainly China and Vietnam) that the horn has miraculous curing properties and is considered a status […]

The South African Police Services’ special investigative unit, the Hawks, was broken into in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Several computers have reportedly been stolen from the Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain departments at the Hawks’ Head Office in Pretoria, South Africa. This is unprecedented in the history of the Hawks, an independent crime-fighting […]

At least seven people have tragically died after a fire swept through a building in central Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday morning. One person died when they desperately tried to jump to safety to escape the fire. The other six perished in the flames. The cause of the fire at the Cape York building, on […]

Two videos have had South Africans on social media – and even mainstream media – “buzzing” this past week. Both are old and shared with incorrect information. The ‘lion hunt’ was neither a canned hunt… nor even a lion hunt! It was a buffalo hunt that went wrong for the hunters. (You can view it […]

As NSRI Hermanus confirmed to SAPeople today that the search operation is still ongoing for the missing 7-year-old Claremont girl, who was swept off rocks by waves at Betty’s Bay on Friday, they have thanked the community for their incredible support. Despite an extensive sea and shoreline search, little Louise Fowler has not been found… […]

People from Imizamo Yethu – who are in temporary shelters – say the City must make good on its promises Residents protest the lack of progress reblocking Imizamo Yethu. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks Protests in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay continued for the third day yesterday (Monday 3 July). Residents displaced by the devastating fire earlier this year […]

The City of Cape Town has called on all water users to reduce their consumption immediately in line with the new Level 4b water restrictions that have been implemented. The call comes as the latest water usage figures show unacceptably high consumption at 634 million litres of collective water use per day. “Dam levels remain […]

With just one photo and one sentence, farmer Pieter Els summed up the tragedy of the rhino poaching that has plagued South Africa these last few years. In a post on Facebook yesterday he uploaded this heartbreaking photo of an orphaned rhino, looking lost alongside its dead mother… with only red blood visible where once […]

From protests against President Jacob Zuma to children doing yoga, here are some of the most interesting moments we caught on camera in the first half of the year The first half of 2017 has been turbulent. Across the country, tens of thousands marched against President Jacob Zuma. Lives were lost in a storm that […]

Ouf – watch below for that moment when New Zealand midfielder Sonny Bill Williams caused the All Blacks to lose the second test… and got himself suspended for four weeks… as has been decided by a judicial hearing in Wellington on Sunday night. The suspension follows Sonny’s shoulder charge on opponent Anthony Watson, Lions’ wing, […]

This video, which was filmed in South Africa, has to be one of the unfunniest pranks ever played. It was shared a couple of weeks ago by a Somali website, and has been shocking social media users ever since. There’s no mention of when it was filmed or by whom… but after (far too many […]

The latest shocking #GuptaLeaks revelations allege that the bill for the lavish and controversial Sun City wedding of Gupta niece, Vega Gupta, in 2013 was paid for by the Free State provincial government… in a process that involved money laundering and the Vrede Dairy Project (in which the Guptas have always denied involvement). The latest […]

South African journalist Suna Venter has tragically passed away at the age of just 32. She was one of the ‘SABC 8’, and although her family has not given the exact cause of her death, they did say in a media release that she was recently diagnosed with ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’. In the media statement, […]

Trying to figure out the best number to dial in a crisis is no easy task. In an emergency in the US you dial 911, in the UK 999, in Europe 112. It’s a free call from any landline or mobile phone. The operators then direct the caller to the best emergency service. The situation […]

During the early hours of Tuesday morning two suspects, one of them a 22-year-old police constable, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in rhino poaching, according to the South African Police Services (SAPS). And fortunately – this time – they were arrested on their way to kill the rhino, or rhinos, rather than after the deed which happens so […]