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 […]

ANDRE ROUX captured these stunning photos while hiking with the Wednesday Adventure Group (all welcome!) in South Africa’s beautiful Outeniqua Mountains. The range – named after the Outeniqua Khoikhoi who lived there – is near George in the Western Cape. “For me, it’s the most beautiful place in the Garden Route,” says Andre; and his […]

A primary school in Soweto was visited this week by some very special people from search giant Google… Read to Rise, a non-profit organisation that promotes youth literacy in under-resourced communities, posted the photos on this page saying: “A very special thank you to GOOGLE for sponsoring OAKY for children in Soweto and for coming […]

Sjoe, goosebumps. Remember the beautiful heartfelt-letter that made world headlines when Joost van der Westhuizen’s grieving son, Jordan, wrote a letter to his dad in heaven… including a request for Joost to ask God  to make Liverpool Football Club win? It turns out, that letter captured not only the hearts of rugby fans around the […]

If you want to watch something very typically South African, watch these guys trying to get a stuck land cruiser out of the water and mud! As one of the men in the video says at one point: “Brandewyn en modder” (brandy and mud). It couldn’t get more South African than that! South Africans have […]

South African commercials director Sunu scooped some major awards, including Gold, at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Wednesday evening… for an Absolut campaign that celebrates the creative revolution taking place across Africa. Egg Films’ Sunu scooped Gold, two Silvers and Bronze in the Entertainment, Entertainment for Music and Media categories at the world’s most […]

A post by Capetonian Wayne Nefdt, former owner of Red Rock Cafe, has gone totally viral on Facebook… being shared by over seven thousand (very proud!) South Africans since he posted it on 15 June. The post is called How To Tell If You Are South African… You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume” […]

Kevin Pietersen has announced he will be quitting English cricket at the end of this summer to become more involved in wildlife conservation in South Africa. Kevin – who turns 37 next week – is reportedly building a new house near the Kruger National Park. “I reckon this will be my last season playing in […]

Revolting Rhymes – which South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation worked on – scored a hat-trick this weekend: first winning Best Storytelling at Shanghai International Film and TV Festival in China, then Best Animation at the World Banff Media Festival in Canada, and finishing off with the Cristal for Best TV Production at Annecy in France, the world’s […]

South African YouTube sensation – and millionaire – Caspar Lee has received an invite from Queen Elizabeth II to Buckingham Palace! Caspar – whose full name is Caspar Richard George Lee – casually posted the invitation yesterday, with a dig at one of his teachers from South Africa, saying: “Shoutout to the teacher who said I […]

Here’s a fab short video from Lion’s Head, filmed by ZACH ZINN… as well as some awesome photos of the Capetonian’s home town. Zach says: “A view most people missed on Wednesday afternoon…” The song is Feverkin by Sinking (feat. Nori). Watch Lion’s Head… Candy Floss Clouds https://www.instagram.com/p/BUb3HG9FRWC/?taken-by=zaczinn https://www.instagram.com/p/BTYapR6lYlx/?taken-by=zaczinn https://www.instagram.com/p/BR5BD5PlQCN/?taken-by=zaczinn

On 28 September 2016, the shareholders of South African born international brewer, SABMiller, approved the company’s acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev for $104 billion (R1.5 trillion). The deal paved the way for the creation of what is now by far the world’s largest brewing company. For a company that started out selling beer to miners in […]

On Father’s Day we’re celebrating with three of the best tributes ever made in South Africa to awesome fathers… 1. The Graduate Who Thanked Her Security Guard Dad for Putting Her Through University Remember back in May when Thobile Mabanga (Thoby) made headlines tweeting her heartfelt gratitude to her father when she graduated from Tshwane University […]

Springbok coach, Allister Coetzee, was pleased at the effort of his team after they beat France 37-15 in the second of three tests in the Castle Lager Incoming Series at Growthpoint Kings Park on Saturday. The Springboks won the first test in Pretoria last week and although the series is now won, Coetzee was not […]

Knysna held a Firemen’s Parade on Saturday morning to thank the teams that worked so tirelessly and selflessly, in such frighteningly dangerous conditions… as fires raged across the region a week ago, taking seven lives, including that of a firefighter. This morning those brave firefighters were honoured in the town, with grateful residents coming out in […]

PRETORIA – A total of three men, in two different incidents, have been arrested at O.R Tambo International Airport in the past week, for being in possession of rhino horns. In a media statement, the South Africa Police Service’s Priority Crimes Investigation (HAWKS) said the first two were arrested on Sunday. HAWKS said it found six rhino […]

Sometimes when huge horrific things happen, it is the little things that lift us back up again. For Knysna resident ESTER BEUKES… it has been the tortoises that have been found, the faint sound of frogs croaking again, the sight of a new green shoot in the midst of the burnt-out land next to her home, and […]

Gauteng’s unemployed youth have a reason to be hopeful again… thanks to an incredible heed to action from several South African corporates – including amongst others Coca-Cola, Standard Bank, Microsoft SA – and state agencies! The current unemployment stats are rather miserable… Gauteng has about 2.7 million young people aged between 15 and 34 who […]

After a post by Capetonian sports enthusiast and journalist, Brad Brown – about a brilliant self-motivated gardener called Promise – went viral yesterday… Promise became so popular and in demand with the South African public, that the website Brad created for him, crashed! Brad wrote: “It seems all the love has crashed the server…” Here’s the […]