Ag shame… this is so cute. A baby rhino – which is being cared for by Petronel Nieuwoudt’s wonderful Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary – falls asleep to the gentle strumming of a guitar by an Australian zoo keeper. The little rhino calf was adopted by the South African Sanctuary at the age of one-day-old, […]

Sjoe, grab the tissues – this video is impossible to watch without shedding the odd tear… or stream of tears. Radio presenter Anele and her team at 94.7 surprised Johannesburg teenager Lydia with “the best birthday surprise ever”. Lydia’s family has struggled in recent years, since her dad was diagnosed with epilepsy a couple of […]

South African cricket captain Faf du Plessis and his wife Imari welcomed their first child into the world on Thursday. Faf announced the happy news with an adorable photo on Twitter. Faf tweeted: “Our biggest blessing yet came in a small package.so very grateful ????” At this stage it’s unsure whether the Proteas star will […]

Ten days ago, a post by Capetonian WAYNE NEFDT went viral. Like many lists over the years, Wayne had detailed some of South Africa’s funnier and crazier slang words… and in so doing, he celebrated the essence of what it is to be South African. Here Wayne explains the inspiration behind that brilliant post, ‘How […]

South Africa’s Caspar Lee was received by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in England tonight, where a function was held for the Queen’s Young Leaders Award Winners. After meeting the Queen, the 23-year-old South African expat – and YouTube star – posted a photo of himself shaking hands with the British monarch, saying “Yaaaaas […]

Watch this video, filmed a couple of years ago, where South African comedian Trevor Noah highlights how many times in South Africa’s recent history – particularly whenever there’s a Presidential election – scores of people swear the time has finally come to pack their bags and move to Perth… yet, somehow, they always stay… Ironically […]

Charlize Theron has revealed in an interview with W Magazine that she has a bad temper which has sometimes got her into trouble… particularly at the start of her career when she hadn’t yet learned how to channel her energy. In the interview (watch below), Charlize says that during the famous catfight scene with Teri […]

Some people hike it, some catch the cable car… and some youngsters casually skate it! It being South Africa’s iconic Table Mountain. Local Capetonian ZACH ZINN – and his mates Calvin, Devon and Jordan – filmed themselves enjoying this “short skate mission” on an abandoned road on Table Mountain on Monday. It makes you want […]

Two South African expats are travelling the world, teaching yoga and living their dreams. Ethan Ward and Charmelle Taute are Ashtanga yogis, presently living in Bali. They spoke to SAPeople about becoming expats,  what they learnt from Woodridge College on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, and their next exciting venture… The couple met at Woodridge […]

He went on record as saying he was going for something ‘ridiculous’ over the little-run 300-metre event on Wednesday night, and Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa’s golden boy of world athletics, made a world record victory look ridiculously easy. Competing at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting in Czech Republic, the Rio Olympics 400m gold medallist […]

The proud parents of a newborn baby in Stellenbosch, South Africa, say they are ‘feeling blessed’ after the safe birth of their baby following a terrible car crash last week. They are now desperately seeking the kind strangers who helped ensure that their little boy was safely delivered… Marissa and Eugene Neethling have each posted […]

Following the massive fires that ravaged the Knysna area earlier this month, Karen Rademeyer sent out urgent pleas for people in the area to look out for her five missing ponies. This last week, one of those ponies – Cody – followed his heart all the way home to her, 16 days later, along the […]

“I have had a passion for farming since secondary school” On the outskirts of Simon’s Town, Einstein Sibanda has established a two hectare free range poultry project. Sibanda, who is originally from Zimbabwe, started farming in December 2016 on the lower slopes of Rocklands Farm. He found out about the land — which is home to a Christian […]

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 […]

Check out this VERY close encounter with a leopard in the Main Area of a campsite in the Okavango Delta in Botswana! (Scroll down to watch.) A Wilderness Safaris manager, Hamish Henderson, posted the video – taken at Xigera Camp – a couple of days ago, saying: “And then this happened! Video courtesy of our Guest […]

In case you didn’t log in to Facebook over the weekend, here’s that epic drone video again of a large school of dolphins enjoying a cool surf session with the local human surfers. The video was filmed by surf photographer RICHARD MELVILL who says he was just “in the right place at the right time”. […]

Talented Belgian photographer MAARTEN VAN DE VELDE – who lives in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa – has struck a chord with many friends and strangers, after writing an open letter on Facebook that speaks honestly of his darkest moments, and his journey back… Dear facebook friends, I’m not used to sharing long texts on social […]

It had to happen. South Africa’s legendary ‘Van der Merwe’ – the butt of many jokes – finally has his own movie! With Rob van Vuuren in the lead, the film is set on a farm in South Africa; and centres around Van’s daughter, Marike (Reine Swart), who returns home from a gap year in England […]

American solo traveller, DANA ATKINSON, compiled a list of things she would miss as she sat at the Kruger National Park yesterday… contemplating her return home to Florida in the USA. Her list resonates not only with fellow visitors and tourists to South Africa, but also with South Africans themselves… paticularly expats who now live […]

Waving the South African flag high, ‎Western Cape ultra-distance runner Ryan Sandes has just won the 2017 Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in California. Ryan  (from Salomon Running) accomplished the incredible feat – from Squaw Valley to Auburn – in 16 hours 19 minutes and 38 seconds. Debby Hunter‎ posted the proud news to Comrades […]

South Africa won the third test against France in the Castle Lager Incoming Series 35-12, following wins in Pretoria and Durban earlier this month… scooping the series 3-0. Springbok coach, Allister Coetzee, on Saturday praised the effort of his squad and management, but also had a special word of thanks to Springbok fans. “This was […]

CHRIS MORRIS led a superb bowling performance to enable the Standard Bank Proteas to secure a three-run series-levelling victory over England in the second T20 International at Taunton on Friday. The two teams now go to a series deciding match at Cardiff on Sunday. The Proteas, losing the toss and having to bat first, looked […]

A massive swell hit J-Bay this morning. According to photographer ROBBIE IRLAM, only South Africa’s  legendary Big Wave Tour World Champion Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker and two others ventured out to try their luck in the surf… Here are photos and video captured by Robbie, and MAARTEN VAN DE VELDE… Photos by Robbie IrlamPhotography: Grant Twig Baker […]

Legendary Comrades runner, Bruce Fordyce, was attacked by armed robbers on Friday morning in Westcliff, Johannesburg, at around 05h30 during a 10km run. The attackers took off with his cheap plastic watch… a glove he was wearing, and his shoes! Bruce told local press that the thieves were welcome to his shoes since “they’d already […]

South Africans, young and old, came together to celebrate International Yoga Day at the Lenasia Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The UN General Assembly, on 11 December 2014, adopted a resolution commemorating 21 June as the International Day of Yoga. The day is celebrated worldwide as a means to promote Yoga as well as exercise and […]