South Africans have praised athlete Wayde van Niekerk for being more than just a winner on the track. On Thursday the 23-year-old sportsman donated half a million rand to Newborns Groote Schuur Trust. According to Athletics Africa, Wayde himself was delivered prematurely and spent weeks in an incubator at Groote Schuur Hospital’s Neonatal Unit. The 400m prodigy, born […]

Former Miss Earth South Africa Catherine Constantinides – who started her first business at the age of 16 – has been selected to head to the US as one of the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellows. The young Play Your Part Ambassador’s star keeps shining as she works to make South Africa and the world a better […]

Jeremy Olivier may not have won South Africa’s first The Voice tonight – that honour went to Richard Stirton – but the Top 4 contestant still walks away feeling like a winner, with a wealth of experiences that have made this journey unforgettable. Jeremy and his wife Nicole, who have five children, first came to the attention of […]

Over 30,000 people from all over KwaZulu-Natal enjoyed a morning of fun and exercise along Durban’s gorgeous promenade this morning, taking part in the Discovery East Coast Radio (ECR) Big Walk. From the moment they left the start at uShaka Marine World to the time they crossed the finish line at People’s Park, Moses Mabhida Stadium, […]

East Coast Radio asked the kids of KwaZulu-Natal to do their best Suzelle DIY impersonation. For our money, 5-year-old Jake is a winner! Watch the real Suzelle DIY in action, although this is one of our favourites:

Few cities in the world have a hike right on their doorsteps, literally. Cape Town is full of them. Lion’s Head is the obvious one, but right next-door is the much simpler Pipe Track, perfect for a Sunday morning stroll with the dog, even – obvious from these photographs taken on Sunday – in the middle of […]

In a nail-biting, close finish at the Italian Moto 3 Grand Prix today South African rider Brad Binder clinched his third win in a row… increasing his lead in the Moto 3 Championship! MotoGP tweeted: “It really doesn’t get much closer than that ? A huge leading group throughout the entire 20 lap saga, ending with […]

If you’re a globetrotter into fine dining, consider making your next destination Cape Town and its outlying Winelands, where an innovative eight-course tasting menu paired with wines will cost you about $60 to $80 for lunch, and $85 to $105 for dinner. Thanks to the dollar’s strength in South Africa, Americans are in for a […]

In an interview with Playboy magazine in the USA, Trevor Noah has revealed he has a fan crush on fellow South African, Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron; how his mom made him laugh after she was shot in the head, and that he listens to Otis Redding every day. The 32-year-old South African comedian, who replaced […]

Plastic pollution – particularly in the oceans around Africa – will thank goodness be in the spotlight during a two-day event in Port Elizabeth this July. Just this week, Durban was forced to temporarily close its beaches as piles of pollution and debris washed up on shore, and in the Western Cape seals have been seen caught […]

South Africans were the biggest winners at the 2016 global World League of Beauty & Fashion pageant in Bodrum, Turkey on Saturday night, walking away with an unprecedented five titles! In a message to SAPeople, SA pageant organiser Carolyn Baldwin Botha said: “I am more than SUPER PROUD of #TeamPageantsSA #PageantsSA.” Zenande Mncwabe (7) from Richard’s Bay won Little […]

While waiting for positive change in parliament is taking a little long for some, there is a massively positive drive happening in South Africa from the ground-up. Ordinary individuals helping each other out. Today’s story comes from Durban where a small gym studio owner Riaan Dohne, from Ri Shape, posted a message on Facebook a few […]

Four boutique hotels that often miss the headlines have been selected for top awards by TripAdvisor users in its 2016 Traveler’s Choice Awards, as has the increasingly famous Test Kitchen in Woodstock, Cape Town. TripAdvisor calls the awards announced this week “The Very Best of Travel Chosen by Millions of Travelers”. The Garden House in Franschhoek came […]

Visitors to the famous Sunland Big Baobab tree in Modjadjiskloof (formerly Duiwelskloof), have been upset recently to discover that one of the branches from the possibly 6,000-year-old tree has broken. The legendary 22-metre-high tree, in Limpopo Province, South Africa, holds the record for being the widest of its species; so wide in fact, at 47 metres in circumference, that there’s […]

A farmer from the Free State, Stoffel Boshoff,  is being hailed a hero after saving an Eskom worker from his burning bakkie. The car’s petrol tank exploded just minutes after Stoffel dragged the unconscious man from his vehicle. Stoffel (29), from the Vredefort/Koppies area, became an instant hero when he reportedly ran approximately 900 metres – […]

South African architects – East Coast Architects – have been awarded the 2016 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The annual award is presented to five architects around the world by the LOCUS Foundation, under the patronage of UNESCO. East Coast Architects’ directors Steve Kinsler and Derek van Heerden travelled to Paris this month to receive their award […]

The world’s rarest kitten – a Lykoi or Werewolf Cat – has been rescued from The Company’s Garden in Cape Town by TEARS Animal Rescue Feral Cat Project staff and volunteers, the agency said on Tuesday. The cat, found under a bush, is the only natural-born Lykoi on record in South Africa and one of […]

A Durban man, Sifiso, is being celebrated on social media for displaying “the true spirit of South Africa”… because he went that extra mile to return a lost wallet. In a post Monday evening by Ian Edwards, Ian said: “This is Sifiso. On Friday I lost my wallet outside the Sunningdale Medical Centre. Sifiso picked it up and […]

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has said the reports of his “imminent arrest” by the Hawks, alleged by the Sunday Times this weekend, have left him and his family distressed, and he cannot believe he is being investigated and could possibly be charged for something he is innocent of. He said in a statement on Tuesday that for 45 […]

South Africa was proudly represented at an International Pentecostal Service at St Peter’s Catholic Church in Cardiff, on the south coast of Wales, yesterday. South African expat Monica Francis Maier told SAPeople she “represented my beloved South Africa”. Here is the prayer Monica delivered for South Africa: May we stand together and pray for God to heal […]

A couple of awesome youngsters in South Africa are leading the way with some very cool, inspirational behaviour. One is in Gauteng. The other in the Western Cape. The one carries heavy bottles of water to school – 5km each day – to help others; and the other cleans roadside gutters to uplift his community. They are Nkosinani […]

A tragicomic movie about two terminally ill young men on the road in South Africa has been one of the top 10 movies in Germany for most of 2016. According to the write-up for “Der Geilste Tag” (The Most Beautiful Day), writer/director Florian David Fitz “co-stars alongside the hugely popular German star Matthias Schweighoefer and the duo play […]

Nine dorps – from each of South Africa’s nine provinces – are battling it out to win the title of Kwêla Dorp of the Year. The nine are: Dullstroom, Hoedspruit, Hermanus, Ballito, Loxton, Kirkwood, Hentiesbaai, Paul Roux and Potchefstroom. Each town has been tasked with doing its own thing to get votes – Tanya Tiefenthaler, from Facebook […]

New footage has emerged proving that the Kruger National Park were quite right when they hypothesised that the buffalo which smashed into a tourist’s vehicle in South Africa – in a video which went viral – were probably “spooked” by lions. As reported by SAPeople on Friday, the Kruger said that “most probably there were lions […]

Proud South African and KwaZulu-Natal resident GARETH ROBERTS sent in this gorgeous picture and a few words to remind us all of the wonder of our rainbow nation… “When we were first called the Rainbow Nation I was a youngster. To me this represented all our differences – skin colour, culture, economic capacity, education capacity, language, beliefs, […]