A Zimbabwean man has turned from teaching marketing to marketing vegetables in South Africa. Earlier this year, 50-year-old Maclean Chambwe left his teaching job to work full time on his gardening project. “There is a lot of poverty in urban areas that can be combatted by simply turning the backyards of houses into viable vegetable […]

Toya Delazy will voice Bliss, the fourth Powerpuff Girl for Cartoon Network Africa in the five-part special The Powerpuff Girls: Power of Four. Bliss is the long-lost teenage sister to Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, who has returned to Townsville to learn the strength of her powers. The new five-episode Powerpuff Girl special will premiere at the DStv Delicious International Food & […]

Here’s this week’s Carte Blanche line-up for South Africans abroad. To watch this week’s episode, available from Tuesday – subscribe to Showmax International here. Watch the trailer below. Cable Theft – A City in Darkness It’s been days since parts of the Johannesburg inner city were plunged into darkness, after a cable theft syndicate struck, […]

This is not a new video – but it’ll give you goosebumps nonetheless if you love Africa and its wildlife. It’s the real deal – not the fake lion roar you often hear in movies. Latest Sightings – Kruger, who uploaded the video a year ago, said the lions were seen in the middle of […]

While South Africa will be celebrating Heritage Day on Sunday 24 September 2017, expats living abroad are invited to attend one of the following events. On Heritage Day, South Africans everywhere are encouraged to celebrate our country’s diverse cultural traditions, beliefs and traditions. Australia Bring & Braai – Melbourne All are welcome! Please wear anything […]

South Africans came together in the most beautiful way this weekend, to help farmers in Vredendal, in the Olifants River Valley, on the West Coast, where the devastating drought has caused many of their livestock to die… because of the shortage of animal feed. With awareness raised by Facebook’s Droogte Hulp (Drought Help) project, managed […]

The well known former Times Media building, at 4 Biermann Avenue in Rosebank, was imploded Sunday morning. Watch below. Watch implosion: Goodbye 4 Biermann Ave, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa https://www.facebook.com/riaanw/videos/10155421663820660/ Journalists took to social media to reminisce about the old offices – the friendships, the deadlines, the start of their careers there. Some were in […]

Check out the ‘boxing grannies’ of Joburg, filmed by Shayne Robinson. “In a small little gym in a community centre in Cosmo City is where I met a really amazing man,” says Shayne. “Claude Maphosa is a former bodybuilder and the owner of the A-Team gym.” Claude says he got the opportunity of a lifetime […]

DStv Premium customers have some good news to celebrate this week. Having a DStv Premium account now means getting access to internet-streaming service Showmax at zero (to be clear, that’s nil, zilch, nada) additional cost!!! Here’s a list of what to watch first… Access to Showmax means getting access to over 25,000 series episodes, movies […]

Congratulations Trevor Noah! South Africa’s popular comedian announced Friday that his contract with The Daily Show has been extended! All the way until 2022! In true Trevor style, the SA expat went straight to gratitude… and South Africans were at the top of his list. “Let me begin by saying thank you – thank you […]

So how long is 3 minutes? It can either be quick quick or fok long. Well let me tell you… When you only have 3 minutes to get ready and out the door for an appointment or work, 3 minutes is quick quick; it feels like 20 seconds… BUT, if you are in a water […]

National Treasury confirmed in Parliament yesterday that the law change forcing South African expatriates to start paying tax will be proceeded with and take effect… writes Jerry Botha from Tax Consulting South Africa. However, the outcome is vastly more beneficial than what was originally proposed by National Treasury… and Barry Pretorius’ “Expatriate Petition Group” can […]

Together, they figure they have done South African Tourism more good than any other two blondes… and have travelled to the moon and back. Melanie Walker and Viv Vermaak. The one is a former barefoot trans-African arm-wrestler. The other is a former fashion model and adrenaline junkie. The one hosted a show called ‘Going Nowhere […]

EASTERN CAPE – While police were battling to control housing protestors in Humansdorp, there was happier news being delivered at the Mlungisi Police Station… where a constable took on the role of a midwife, and assisted in delivering a baby boy. The South African Police Service (SAPS) said in a statement Thursday that the woman, […]

Here’s a sneak peek at Table Bay Mall, which is scheduled to open to the public on 28 September 2017. All photos by SAPeople contributor Alan Rudnicki. Last weekend the media were invited to a fabulous luncheon… and to walk around the brand new centre (with hard hats, because it’s still a construction site). Journalists and […]

“Why on earth would you do that?” It was the question that surprised me from many Australians who thought I was mad to move to South Africa… writes Ed Charles. After all, isn’t Australia full of South Africans trying to escape that terrible country (and crime-ridden Johannesburg in particular)? Well, not quite. But let’s rewind […]

They say South Africans aren’t sissies, and a lot of pictures are shared proving our ‘toughness’ – see below… but then scroll down further to watch a Halloween prank video that shows, just maybe, South Africans can be sort of sissies sometimes… We occasionally have baboons in our gardens and in our cars… And they’re […]

Football mad Kai Rigby, from Birmingham in England, has travelled to over 120 countries (and watched football in over 30 of them)… and picked up accents! Watch him below as he nails almost every accent… except perhaps the South African (according to South Africans watching), although he does a pretty good Nelson Mandela voice. As […]

American filmmaker Mendel Katz, who is married to South African expat Mushkie Lewin, has captured a “short but sweet” documentary about South Africa. Mendel and Mushkie married last year in July and went for a two-month tour around South Africa for their honeymoon. “I wanted to go a bit ‘off the beaten path’ instead of the […]

Wildlife photographer Bernhard Bekker captured this once-in-a-lifetime video (see below) in August when a pride of 20 lions drank from the Sabie River in perfect unison at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The 40-year-old South African wildlife photographer and tour guide told the Daily Mail: “It’s just such an amazing moment. In 18 […]

The suspects seen in videos which went viral on Monday, showing two men (and a driver) trying to rob a young woman in Auckland Park, South Africa, have been caught. Social cohesion advocate, Yusuf Abramjee, tweeted a message, with a photo, this morning congratulating Constable M. Omarjee and Constable A. Mahomed for the arrest. The […]

South African comedian Trevor Noah has won his first Emmy (of hopefully many to come!) for his YouTube comedy special, “The Daily Show: Between the Scenes”. The episodes include funny, interesting and varied titbits that Trevor offers as he engages the audience during the ad breaks, between the scenes that are actually broadcast for “The […]

Here’s this week’s Carte Blanche line-up for South Africans abroad, available from Tuesday. SA expats can now watch their favourite SA current affairs programme just two days after it airs in South Africa, if they’re subscribers of Showmax International. (Watch the trailer below.) Bell Pottinger: The PR Disaster The embattled British Public Relations Firm, Bell Pottinger […]

The tide may be turning as South Africa’s Police Service (SAPS) gets serious about rhino poaching – a 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for rhino poaching related crimes; and another man has been arrested at OR Tambo International Airport in possession of five rhino horns! SAPS announced in a media statement […]

Two photos of an incident at the South African Cross Country Champs this weekend are sweeping social media… with their perfect display of what a true champion constitutes. In a beautiful gesture of Ubuntu and good sportsmanship, a competing athlete gave up his own chance of doing well in order to help another – from […]