Cell C Sharks will be making a great “stand for national unity” when they play their first 2016 Super Rugby home match on Saturday. In an announcement Wednesday, the Sharks revealed that 10,000 national flag masks will be distributed at the Growthpoint Kings Park, where the team will face Argentina’s Jaguares. Sharks CEO, John Smit, said: “The […]

Chill out with SuzelleDIY’s latest video. The South African DIY Goddess proves just how cool she is… and how cool you could be… with her latest DIY invention – airconditioning. “Because sometimes there is a heatwave guys,” she says! At one point – with a stream of gorgeous cool locations behind her – SA’s beloved […]

South African expat BEV TROMP, who’s on holiday back home at the moment, captured these beautiful pictures during a photographic tour of Johannesburg’s oldest public cemetery, Braamfontein Cemetery. “It was a fascinating glimpse into the lives of others who loved, lost and lived in times long before we were born…” she says. The following two photos show […]

Cape Town might be high on many a traveller’s bucket list but there are at least 9 other destinations in South Africa equally worth seeing, according to the US site Mashable. “For a medium-sized country,” Mashable says in a recent story, “South Africa has a lot going on.” (We choose an 11th at the end.) The list, which […]

Good news for braai-loving South Africans in Nashville, Tennessee. South Africa’s fastest growing franchise – Chesa Nyama – is heading stateside. The take-away restaurant chain, which boasts food that’s “flame grilled the traditional way”, has grown from just one store to 300 in just three years! Just over two weeks ago, on 12 February, Chesa Nyama’s holding […]

Since the end of January there’s been quite a buzz around a special yacht docked in Cape Town, South Africa, with sports celebrities like Kevin Pietersen and Shaun Pollock even tweeting about its presence. Here are 18 things you may want to know about Vava II… 18 Super Facts about Super Yacht Vava II Vava II is the largest […]

The far-flung island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic – not to be confused with the one off Australia – might be known to many in South Africa, but opportunities to visit Napoleon’s last place of exile have been few. At least until now. British Airways-owned Comair has announced that it will soon start flying weekly from Johannesburg to a […]

As predicted, South African-born and raised Margaret Sixel won the Best Film Editing Oscar on Monday evening for ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. This was the first Academy Award nomination – and (obviously) win – for Sixel, who studied film editing in Australia, and now lives in Sydney with her husband of over 21 years, George Miller… who happens to […]

South African golfer Louis Oosthuizen overcame a less than fabulous start to his final round yesterday to win the Perth International by one stroke for an eighth European Tour title, in an event also sanctioned by the Tour of Australasia. This was his first tournament appearance in Australia, and his first tournament win in two years! […]

Race relations in South Africa are good, and the “acrimonious” debate that has raged in social media recently is not a reflection of what most South Africans feel, according to the Institute for Race Relations. In a statement on Monday accompanying a newly released study, IRR Policy Fellow Sara Gon said, “The results should fill all […]

There’s nothing that makes you appreciate home more than when you no longer live there! So if you’re missing the sun, surf and sunsets – check out this summer video from Ronal Langeveld’s holiday back home to Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. “This film is dedicated to my appreciation of being able to do what I do […]

Two of Africa’s greatest exports – South African comedian Trevor Noah and Mexican-Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o – sat down in New York for an interview with journalist Philip Galanes. As the actress wrote on Facebook: “‘So two Africans walk into a restaurant in Manhattan and meet a journalist…’ – the start of a very good joke or […]

Drumming up support for  their ICC T20 World Cup campaign in India next month, the Proteas have released their own rendition of the Pitbull’s hit Fireball. Maybe there’s also a career in music! Watch the video above or below. .@faf1307 is on FIRE &in leopard print in the Proteas’ latest video. #WATCH #Fireball here: https://t.co/UyEfBMoqDx pic.twitter.com/yulQugBzdO — […]

Check out South African big wave surfer Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker wiping out at yesterday’s awesome Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau event. The annual event in Hawaii, nicknamed The Eddie, only runs if waves are over 40 feet high! The last time it was able to run was in 2009. Speaking about the 3-second free fall […]

Comedian Mark Angel’s weekly videos are fast becoming a staple diet for comedy lovers around the world, with the Nigerian entertainer’s niece Emanuella becoming quite the star! They’re funny, cheeky, not always politically correct and sometimes quite off the wall. Lately the videos have been racking up hundreds of thousands of views – with “After-School Lesson” receiving over 1 million […]

So many people replied to our story “12 of SA’s Best Movies You Might Have Missed” – especially “Dirkie”, which triggered many a childhood memory – we thought we’d add some of the most popular suggestions that didn’t make it onto the first list. 1. e’Lollipop (aka Forever Young, Forever Free) (1975) A black South African boy […]

Lucky Masinya sure is lucky…and hard-working and talented. The young South African pastry chef, who has lived in a care home in Johannesburg for a number of years, is currently undergoing an incredible work experience programme in London that’s included working with the best at the Ritz, Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons and Pretty Sweet; and meeting […]

Appletiser, South Africa’s famous sparkling, apple-flavoured drink that was somehow before its time – fun, bubbly but also healthy – is celebrating its first half century. The now famous drink was “mastered by French-Italian Edmond Lombardi in the Elgin Valley” and “developed with the help of Swiss technology”, according to Appletiser’s website. “The apple aroma taunts your taste-buds, and the […]

Before we made the decision to move from the United States to South Africa in late 2009, we had our doubts. From what we read in one expat forum after another, South Africa – and the city of Johannesburg in particular – was a cesspit of crime. If we were so foolish as to move […]

A group of South African school students were interviewed by Morning Live’s Leanne Manas following the Post-Budget Breakfast Briefing Thursday to which they had been invited. Their praise for Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan comes at the same time he is said to be in a stand-off with the head of the SA Revenue Service Tom Moyane. Gordhan […]

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s successful restaurant chain, Jamie’s Italian, is heading to Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, and will open sometime in 2016. The famous chef’s first restaurant opened in the British university town of Oxford in 2008 and now there are 40 branches around the world, from India to Brazil and from Russia to Scandinavia. Watch […]

Searching For Freedom: Beautiful expression is often borne of hardship. The art that emerged out of Apartheid South Africa is no exception. If anything — given the limited freedom of expression enforced by the state — the sheer existence of such work created by artists of colour during Apartheid is nothing short of miraculous in itself. […]

We are gutted, here in the middle of the country on a university campus I have come to embrace with all its hope and hurt, its great strides and lingering imperfections. An incident on Monday evening in a Varsity Cup rugby match between the Madibaz of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and the Shimlas of […]

My dear children, it is with some regret that I must announce that despite the growing phenomena of parents addressing letters of praise directly to their kids on Facebook, extolling, inter alia, their brains, their beauty and the munificence of their physical and mental attributes, I’ve reluctantly decided to stick with the somewhat dated practice […]

Many people know “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – a song often associated with the movie “The Lion King” – but few people know the famous tune was born in a small town in South Africa almost a century ago. In tribute to that song – originally titled “Mbube” – we thought we’d post several of the countless wonderful versions that have been done […]