Check out these awesome photos, taken by Gale McAll, at sunrise in Kalk Bay a few days ago when the ocean was wild and massive waves rolled in…sometimes quite unexpectedly. “This young man was walking to the end of the pier when an enormous wave appeared…” says Gale. “He turned around and started running…and so did I […]

South Africans are mourning tonight as news comes that Jenna Lowe, who raised so much awareness on the importance of organ donation, has passed away. The 20-year-old suffered health set backs a couple of months after receiving a new set of lungs in December 2014, and her family had recently relocated from the Western Cape to […]

Two questions Robert Mugabe probably rarely gets asked, mostly because he doesn’t give reporters a chance to ask them, are “Don’t you think it’s time to step down?” and “When will there be change in Zimbabwe?” Well, plucky journalist Adeola Fayehun from SaharaTV asked Mugabe these probing – Uncle Bob probably would have called them […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is NOT happy with the new visa regulations which came into effect yesterday, 1 June 2015. And in a bid to have the laws reviewed, the opposition party today posted an infographic detailing the “disastrous consequences” and encouraging others to share it. These consequences, according to the DA, include a drop of 24.6% in Chinese visitors […]

The football community has reacted with shock this morning as Kaizer Chiefs (KC) announced they are parting ways with several key players, as well as confirming that coach Stuart Baxter is leaving the team even though there was still one year left on his contract. It was revealed at a press conference this morning that Itumeleng Khune, […]

The Lion Park has reportedly confirmed tonight that the lion which fatally attacked a female tourist in the South African park today will not be put down. There have been a frenzy of tweets on Twitter since the news broke this afternoon that a 22-year-old American tourist was mauled to death by a lion which bit her through […]

Well over 300 years ago, a slave ship on its way from Mozambique to Brazil crashed on to reefs in stormy seas off of Cape Town. Half of the 400 or more slaves were lost. The ship was the Sao José Paquete Africa. In Cape Town tomorrow (Tuesday 2 June 2015), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of […]

Tributes have been pouring in for Hog Hoggidy Hog frontman, George Bacon, whose death on Saturday morning came as a shock to his family and the entertainment community. The band had only just kicked off their national #HogsAreBack tour the evening before, at The Assembly. According to an official statement which was released today, the 40-year-old passed […]

If South African President Jacob Zuma thought that the Police Minister’s Report last week would put an end to demands for him to ‘Pay Back the Money’, he couldn’t have been more mistaken. An avalanche of jokes have hit the print and social media; the Democratic Alliance has vowed to pursue the issue, the Public Protector […]

It’s South Africa where humour is how we cope with stressful or frustrating situations, so of course the jokes have been flooding in since it was announced yesterday by the Police Minister that South African President Jacob Zuma will not need to pay back the money for the Nkandla upgrades. Some Jokes being shared about the […]

The surprise in South Africa is not that President Jacob Zuma will not have to “pay back the money” for the R246-million upgrades to his Nkandla homestead…but the lengths Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko took to justify his decision at not finding the President liable for costs. Minister Nhleko delivered his Nkandla Report on Thursday, just a day after the […]

Trevor Noah has denied reports in the South African media that his cousin was brutally murdered. In two messages on Twitter yesterday, and another one on Facebook an hour ago, Trevor said: “Thanks to some crafty journalism my family and I spent the whole day yesterday trying to figure out if one of us had […]

It has been announced today that missing South African Shaun Michael Beukes has tragically passed away. He was only 34. (This article has been updated at 18:50 SA time.) In a message just over an hour ago on a Facebook community page, Pay It Forward, Gregory Wills-Clifton said: “It is with profound sadness and a broken […]

A South African 34-year-old male, Shaun Beukes (known as Shauny B to his friends) has reportedly gone missing in the USA. According to friends of his who contacted SAPeople no one has heard from him in the last few days and he missed his flight home to South Africa. Shaun was apparently in the USA […]

As the issue of canned hunting of lion becomes more and more publicised, let’s give a thought to one of the first, if not the first, private organisations to get involved to stop it – SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary. Canned hunting, for anyone who doesn’t know yet, is the managed hunting in confined spaces of lion […]

Yet another poacher was arrested last night in South Africa’s Kruger National Park (KNP) during an operation that was described as sounding like a “war”. Conservation group Rhino Saving the Survivors reported this morning that there was a lot of activity on Tuesday night in the Kruger Crocodile Bridge Gate area with reports of gunshots heard by residents […]

The week before last, I (John) had an appetite for fish and chips. But as I stood at the counter my desire for a sustainable lunch started to make things rather complicated. The names of the fish on the menu were all familiar, but the fillets on display looked nothing like their local namesakes. Except […]

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has released a statement two hours ago announcing two suspects have been arrested in connection with the high-profile murder of Port Elizabeth teacher Jayde Panayiotou. The country – and South Africans around the world – were moved to march and say #EnoughIsEnough after it appeared that the 28-year-old had been […]

The South African team who were on Mount Everest when a large avalanche hit on Saturday are reported to be heading home. The team was halfway through their trip when the avalanche was triggered by Nepal’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake which has left over 3,600 dead. Footage of the avalanche cascading down the mountain was captured and uploaded […]

South African Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and the Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS), amongst others, have sent condolences to the families of Darrell Rea and Jastun Visagie who tragically lost their lives on Wednesday while battling a mountainside fire in the Bains Kloof area, near Wellington in the Western Cape…which is still burning. VWS said “we, as […]

When Donald Trump picked on South Africa earlier this week – saying it was a mess – he unleashed a storm of vitriol from South Africans around the world. Many of them said the true mess was his signature combover hairstyle, while others said he should butt out of South Africa’s affairs. It wasn’t the first […]

We are so sad to report that the body of Jayde Panayiotou has been found this morning. Desperate messages to help find the 28-year-old teacher from Port Elizabeth (PE) had been shared on social media in the past 24 hours, since she went missing yesterday morning. In one Monica Dimopoulos said “my cousin’s wife in Port Elizabeth, […]

South Africans woke up this morning to an announcement from Eskom, posted just after 5 am saying “Eskom regrets to announce that Stage 1 #load_shedding will resume from 06:00 to 22:00 today.” But an hour ago it just got worse. Eskom announced “#PowerAlert” revealing it will move “from stage 1 to stage 2 load shedding […]

It has been a sad day for South Africa as over 2,000 people brought Durban’s CBD to a standstill following days of xenophobic attacks in the KwaZulu Natal province. The recent flare up of attacks against foreign nationals has been blamed by some on a recent comment made by King Goodwill Zwelithini, King of the Zulus, saying “foreigners must go”. He […]

It had to happen. After Trader Joe’s, the hugely popular and huge supermarket chain in the USA (think Woolies but a bit cheaper), brought out its South African BBQ Potato Chips, biltong wasn’t more than a whiff away. And so the store has recently rolled out ‘The South African Inspired Biltong Beef Jerky.’ The American […]