There were goosebumps in Kalk Bay on Sunday as a former resident and decorated South African Defence Force (SADF) hero – Gareth Rutherford – finally returned home to Cape Town after being wrongfully imprisoned in Kuwait for a decade. Local resident Maria Wagener was there to capture the photos and video on this page of […]

Amidst the horror stories of ruthless rhino poachers or elephant hunters, and the carnage they leave behind, it’s wonderful to be reminded about how many good people there are in South Africa who will never give up saving the country’s wildlife. On Sunday two survivors of rhino poaching will be released back into the wild, […]

Former Parktown Boys High School water-polo coach, Collan Rex, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. The 23-year-old, a former Parktown Boys learner himself, was found guilty in September of 144 charges of sexual offences, as well as a further 12 charges of common assault. According to the SABC’s Sashin Naido Rex the High […]

The festive season just got merrier for Capetonians as the City of Cape Town announced that water users can expect a “considerable reduction” in the cost of water from next month! This is due to water restrictions being lowered from Level 5 to Level 3 from Saturday 1 December 2018. It’ll also mean the allowance […]

A Good Samaritan in Johannesburg has enlisted the help of social media users to track down the owner of a wedding (or engagement) ring, which she found in Sandton City, South Africa. Cheyenne Grobler (24) posted a message on Friday evening saying: “Found a ring in the bathroom by the food court in sandton city… […]

Whether we live abroad or are just holidaying, there’s nothing that makes a South African’s heart skip a beat more happily than when we spot something that connects us with SA. It could be a bottle of South African wine, a box of Rooibos, an SA flag stuck proudly on the bumper of a passing […]

South Africa’s women’s national football team has made history Tuesday night by qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup for the FIRST time ever. World Cup bound ✈️ @FIFAWWC @CAF_Online pic.twitter.com/9BsAECfDUC — SAFA.net (@SAFA_net) November 27, 2018 This comes following their 2-0 win over Mali tonight in the AWCON 2018 semi-finals in Ghana. Banyana […]

Democratic Alliance Chief Whip John Steenhuisen today responded to claims that he should not be the DA’s Chief Whip in Parliament without a university degree. Steenhuisen delivered another epic speech, although he was interrupted several times (at one point saying “this is harassment, come on”). Watch below. Here’s a full transcript of John Steenhuisen’s speech […]

SA Rugby President, Mark Alexander, has praised Springbok winger Aphiwe Dyantyi for scooping the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year Award at a glittering function in Monaco on Sunday evening. In doing so, the 24-year-old Dyantyi became the first South African to win this prestigious award for players in their debut international season. The […]

As ‘they’ say, Nando’s has done it again – with an advert as hot as their chicken peri peri… poking fun at South African society and highlighting an important issue, but with humour. The issue in this case is the South African tendency to group people who are different to them as “you people”… resulting […]

A brave – and petrified – woman in South Africa refused to be a victim of an attempted armed robbery in Cape Town yesterday. The unnamed female driver took matters into her own hands, reversing away from the perpetrators and crashing into three other cars as she made her successful escape. According to 1Second Facebook page, […]

NORTH WEST – Eight suspects, including farmers, were arrested on Sunday in South Africa for the alleged illegal possession of game products that ranged from lion bones and meat to tiger’s skin in what has been described as South Africa’s “dirty & shameful predator bone smuggling racket”… which had allegedly been ongoing for years, under […]

After reading South African comedian Trevor Noah’s best-selling memoir ‘Born a Crime’,  many people were left with more questions than answers… like “what happened to Teddy?” Teddy was Trevor’s best friend in primary school. During childhood they would shoplift together… until they were bust one day. They ran like the wind but Teddy was caught. […]

JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill into law today… setting a minimum of R20 per hour for the majority of SA’s workers. The new bill has been introduced to tackle wage inequality and will raise the earnings of an estimated six million South Africans, more than half of […]

Trevor Noah is joining the #GivingTuesdaySA initiative by pledging up to R2-million to assist schools across South Africa through his Trevor Noah Foundation (TNF), which he founded last year. In a Facebook message to South Africa, Trevor said: Hey South Africa, In the spirit of #GivingTuesdaySA I will be matching all donations to The Trevor […]

Thousands of worshippers from different races, religions and cultures gathered together at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg today for the 2018 National Day of Prayer for all South Africans. They prayed for unity among South Africans of all races and languages, for the creation of jobs, equality of opportunity and the provision of quality education and […]

While the rest of South Africa is talking about land reform, billionaire businessman Johann Rupert is getting on with actually doing it. On 3 December, in Stellenbosch, Rupert and and his wife Gaynor will present more than 326 title deeds that they have sponsored to the ‘new’ home owners, according to a media release from Free […]

South African expat rugby winger DTH (Daniel Tailliferre Hauman) van der Merwe scored two tries for Canada on Friday, ensuring that Canada has now booked its place at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Scoring two out of the team’s three tries, van der Merwe’s effort took Canada to a 27-10 victory over Hong […]

South Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, has been awarded an international Doctorate of Business Administration by the prestigious Henley School of Business, University of Reading in the UK. Henley School of Business said they were delighted to announce the award for Gordhan, and that “he is the first South African to receive this […]

Bridgetown’s “Robot Man” sits at a little table outside his house in the Western Cape, filled with pieces of scrap from a nearby dump site. Near him is his latest creation, Robot 5 (R5) which took about two months to build. Made from items like the straps from a child’s shoe, a piece of rubber, […]

South African videographer Richard van Schalkwyk is on a mission to get English musician Ed Sheeran to view this video of Rosina Kaseke singing a Zulu version of Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’… Van Schalkwyk would love to see Kaseke join Sheeran on stage during his tour to South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town) in March next year. […]

To celebrate their 25th birthday, Engen management and employees embarked on a number of clean-up initiatives around the country – including beach clean-ups in coastal areas and river clean-ups for inland areas. In Cape Town, 100 employees were transported to Blaauwberg Nature Reserve yesterday where they spent the morning cleaning the area to make it […]

This week’s episode of Carte Blanche exposes something wonderful happening in South Africa – young men from the Cape Flats giving hope to farmers! The show also reveals how South African civilians are fighting back against dreaded car jackings, interviews the South African colonel who narrowly escaped death row in South Sudan, now safely home for […]

South Africa will invest $1 billion in South Sudan’s oil sector, which includes the construction of a refinery, says Energy Minister Jeff Radebe. Radebe and his South Sudanese counterpart for petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, announced the investment on Friday. South Sudan’s oil industry is dominated by Asian firms including China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Malaysia’s Petronas and India’s […]

Disney has released the first trailer for the much-anticipated live-action adaptation of The Lion King. Disney tweeted the trailer just over ten hours ago, on the eve of Black Friday, with a short tweet announcing the release date: July 19, 2019. At the same time it aired the advert during the NFL’s annual Thanksgiving primetime […]