Dolphin Super Pod Splashes Across Hout Bay, South Africa

WATCH Hundreds of Dolphins Swim Across Hout Bay, South Africa

By SAPeople 27-04-21 11:13

It was a fabulous Friday (23 April) for Big Bay Events in Hout Bay, South Africa, as a super pod of dolphins swam spectacularly and swiftly into view. With South Africa’s magnificent ocean grabbing some of the Oscar spotlight last night, thanks to My Octopus Teacher’s Academy Award win, here’s even more reason to celebrate […]

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Praise for Octopus Oscar Pours In and SA Government Announces Netflix Partnership

By SAPeople 26-04-21 16:34

South Africa’s President and the country’s Arts and Culture Minister, along with thousands of other South Africans have welcomed the big SA win at the Oscars last night – Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for ‘My Octopus Teacher’. Here’s just some of the praise heaped on the spectacular underwater film: President Cyril Ramaphosa: Congratulations once […]

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My Octopus Teacher WINS Academy Award! Huge Win for SA’s Tiny Octopus!

By Jenni Baxter 12-10-22 12:03

My Octopus Teacher has WON the Oscar! A huge win for South Africa’s tiny octopus. Whoop whoop! The mesmerising underwater doc, which was filmed in the Cape Peninsula waters, emerged as the winner of the Best Documentary Feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards last night. The film charts the special relationship a man develops […]

Elon Musk's Family's Proud Tweets After Recycled Rocket Launched

Elon Musk’s Family’s Proud Tweets After Recycled Rocket Launched

By SAPeople 24-04-21 21:02

As Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent more astronauts into orbit this week, his family have rallied to congratulate him for the historic achievement – using a ‘recycled capsule and rocket’. As Endeavour arrived at the Space Station today, SpaceX confirmed the safe docking and said “second time at the space station for this Dragon”. NASA said […]

UCT Res Salutes Heroes Who Went Beyond Call of Duty During Fire

WATCH UCT Res Salutes Heroes Who Went Beyond Call of Duty During Fire

By SAPeople 24-04-21 21:42

Smuts Hall university residence has saluted some of the unsung heroes at the University of Cape Town who went “beyond the call of duty” and put their own lives at risk during the horrific fire that swept across Table Mountain last week. A video by Siya Ntuntwana captures their heroics (watch below). Naming the heroes, […]

School children scream excitedly when they see this tuk-tuk arrive with Lungile Moferi, because they know he has come to read them a story from a book he will take from this mobile library which he drives around Langa. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana

The Tuk Tuk Library that School Children Love

By SAPeople 23-04-21 23:51

It’s a tuk-tuk (a three-wheeled motor vehicle), but it is also a mobile library. On Thursday, the VUSA Academy Programme launched its mobile library initiative in Langa. Lungile Moferi drives the library slowly around the streets of Langa, and makes his first stop at an early childhood development centre called Dalukhanyo Pre-School. He is greeted […]

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SA’s Thuli Madonsela Receives French Knighthood After Lockdown Delay

By SAPeople Contributor 23-04-21 11:13

South Africa’s beloved former Public Protector Thulisile (Thuli) Madonsela, has had the French knighthood officially bestowed upon her in a beautiful ceremony in Stellenbosch this week. Writing on Twitter, Madonsela said she was “immensely overwhelmed with gratitude”. Prof Madonsela was appointed as Knight of the Legion of Honour by France’s President Emmanual Macron in November […]

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SA Director Scoops Top Global Animation Prize

By Jenni Baxter 13-06-21 22:09

The Snail and the Whale, directed by Max Lang and South Africa’s Daniel Snaddon, has won the Annie Award in Los Angeles for Best Special Production, which recognises excellence in animation. Animated in Cape Town by Triggerfish and produced by Magic Light Pictures, The Snail and the Whale (which is currently streaming on Showmax across most […]

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Recommendation to Lift J&J Vaccine Suspension in SA is Welcomed

By SAPeople 22-04-21 14:31

The SA Cabinet has welcomed the recommendation by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to lift the suspension of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Sisonke Vaccination Programme. The suspension in SA followed the suspension of the J&J vaccination rollout programme in the USA after six people, who received the J&J vaccine, developed a rare type […]

Open Letter to President Ramaphosa from TANKS

An Open Letter to President Ramaphosa from TANKS

By SAPeople Contributor 22-04-21 14:09

After reaching out to schools across South Africa with his coding project, Prof Jean Greyling from Nelson Mandela University has grave concerns regarding the new Coding and Robotics Curricula in the country. Prof Greyling has consequently written this open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa… Dear President Ramaphosa I am inspired and emboldened to write you […]

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PHOTOS: Amazon’s Africa HQ in Cape Town R4 Billion Development

By SAPeople Staff Writer 21-04-21 19:30

A 15-hectare piece of land on Cape Town’s Liesbeek River has been identified as the location where Amazon will have its headquarters in Africa, and will include numerous names and landmarks dedicated to the Khoisan people. The announcement earlier this week that Amazon would be centering its Africa operations in Cape Town was followed up […]

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NASA Names Ridge on Mars After Japie Van Zyl

By SAPeople 20-04-21 17:43

A piece of real estate on planet Mars has been named after a Namibian man, Jakob (Japie) van Zyl, who studied at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, obtaining an honours degree in electronic engineering in 1979. Van Zyl was the leader of the team that created Ingenuity Mars Helicopter which yesterday made history – becoming  […]

Amazon Chooses Cape Town for South African Headquarters

Amazon Chooses Cape Town for South African Headquarters

By SAPeople 20-04-21 14:39

Amazon has announced that it will establish its South African headquarters in the City of Cape Town. The news has naturally been welcomed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) which governs the Western Cape. The Amazon project has the potential to create up to 19,000 jobs. The DA estimates that during the construction phase alone, there […]

Hillbrow residents move nearly 500 tons of trash from their derelict building

Hillbrow Residents Move 500 TONS of Trash from their Derelict Building

By SAPeople 19-04-21 16:39

Massive clean-up at Florence House… By Julia Evans. Residents of the derelict Florence House in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, have come together to remove nearly 500 tons of rubbish, accumulated over years, from their courtyard and are cleaning up the building with the help of civic organisations. Florence House in Hillbrow has no working toilets or drainage […]

Note Left by Firefighters on Car Seen in Cape Town Fire Video

Amazing Note Left by Firefighters on Car Seen in Cape Town Fire Video

By SAPeople 18-04-21 23:56

Thousands of people watched a video of the Cape Town fire on Sunday that showed a white car parked in Table Mountain National Park, precariously close to rising flames. Many wondered what happened to that car… Madness #capetownfire pic.twitter.com/wOVWDYUfGj — Robyn Silverstone (@RobsSilverstone) April 18, 2021 Well, late on Sunday night on Twitter, a user […]

Gift of the Givers Feeds 4,000 UCT Students

Gift of the Givers Feeds 4,000 UCT Students “With Love”

By SAPeople 18-04-21 23:15

Gift of the Givers has swept in to feed thousands of students who had to evacuate the University of Cape Town after fire raged across the slopes of Table Mountain on Sunday,  destroying UCT’s library and other buildings, and leaving two firefighters injured and in hospital. The legendary disaster response NGO (the largest in Africa) […]

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Veldskoen Shoes Makes the Olympic Team in Amazing Full-Circle Story

By SAPeople Contributor 17-04-21 17:04

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has named VELDSKOEN as the official off-field shoe of South African Olympians, for this year’s games in Tokyo… which is a wonderful full-circle moment for the founders of the company. Veldskoen Shoes was started because of a conversation between Nick Dreyer and Ross Zondagh about the […]

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Registration for Vaccine Now Open for Those Over 60 in South Africa

By SAPeople Contributor 16-04-21 13:48

The South African government has officially launched the COVID-19 vaccine online registration for the public as the Department of Health gears up for phase two of the country’s vaccine rollout. According to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) is now available to the general public and all citizens aged 60 […]

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South African Director’s Hollywood Movie Premieres on Netflix

By SAPeople Staff Writer 15-04-21 19:43

The fast-paced, funny, thrilling “Love and Monsters,” directed by South African Michael Matthews, had its premiere outside America on Netflix yesterday. The Hollywood movie, which has been getting incredible reviews and feedback from viewers, was released in America in October last year. Watch the trailer to “Love and Monsters”: Matthews is the director of the […]

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