ZAAHID APPOLES captured this mesmerising footage – and photos – of the windy seas and clouds over Table Mountain as the legendary “Cape Doctor” paid a visit… Watch Video: Cape Doctor over Table Mountain

For those who can’t make it for a safari trip in South Africa this year, here’s a collection of beautiful photos taken in Weenen Game Reserve during the last weekend of January 2016… All photos were taken by PETER DE GROOT who joined a small group of fellow photographers for a weekend of camping and photography in […]

I had the pleasure of photographing the Secret Sunrise Cape Town experience this morning. Apart from groovy music, silly dancing and creative outfits… the most beautiful moment transpired when one of the instructors put his wireless head phones on a school boy standing by… Moments later, all of the Secret Sunrisers moved towards the school […]

Looking for deeper insight into South Africa – or just a good read? Here are snap reviews of classic South African books, covering everything from non-fiction to fiction to poetry, and featuring a range of the country’s greatest novelists, poets, journalists and historians. (Thanks to South African Book Fair for the main pic.) Non-fiction 1. Long Walk […]

More than R10,000 of donations were sent in by people who saw a TV programme on Wednesday about a woman in Ocean View, Cape Town, who has been called the  Mother Teresa of Animals. Watch the interview with Ingrid de Storie: Not long after Ingrid de Storie’s story aired on TV, people started sending in money, […]

In support of World Cancer Day on 4 February, and the international awareness campaign it promotes, the Proteas will play a Pink One Day International on 12 February that Cricket South Africa hopes will raise R1 million. This will be the the third time the Proteas have donned pink for the cause. According to CSA, previous events have raised almost R500,000 for […]

As lion populations across Africa are seriously threatened by populations encroaching on their habitat and cattle farmers protecting their herds, among other things, a group of as many as 200 lions that few people knew about has been discovered in northwest Ethiopia. “During my professional career I have had to revise the lion distribution map many times,” […]

South Africa’s fast food restaurant chain Nando’s has proved just how fast they are – producing an advert about President Zuma’s #PayBackTheMoney options less than 24 hours after the president proposed an end to the controversy. Late last night the presidency revealed the president’s suggestion to pay back part of the tax payers’ millions that were spent […]

Kruger Sightings has uploaded this sweet footage of a baby rhino chasing the birds, together with a message saying “this video is dedicated to Roger Gower, a man who was killed this week, while protecting our precious wildlife.” British helicopter pilot Gower was shot down this weekend by poachers in Tanzania as he approached the scene […]

It’s hard to believe, but there have been 25 million people up Table Mountain on the cable car, and the 25 millionth guests were surprised by cheers on Tuesday when they got off the cable car. Watch the lucky couple arrive on top of the mountain: The two suddenly famous customers were Bafana Sibanyoni and his […]

U.S. talk show host Ellen de Generes has long been known as a supporter of animal causes, and now it’s African animal causes too. Two of her most recent guests were Dereck and Beverly Joubert, the South African conservationists and award-winning photographers. The South African couple, who have lived in the Botswana wilderness for some […]

The France-based chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen has become the first South African to win a coveted Michelin star for his restaurant JAN in Nice on the Riviera, it was announced on Monday. It was one of more than 50 new stars awarded in 2016, Michelin said. For restaurants in France a Michelin star is […]

A prestigious new list of the top places in the world to see in 2016 starts off with the Cape Winelands, which,  as it happens, have also just featured for all the great food and wine you get on the so-called “gourmet trail”. The highly esteemed Robb Report says in its Top 21 Destinations for 2016, “South Africa’s perennially picturesque […]

It’s a long way from Barkly East to Lillehammer but that’s the journey teenager Elizabeth Olivier is taking as she prepares to be South Africa’s sole representative at next month’s Winter Youth Olympics in Norway. She’ll be swopping the South African sunshine for Norwegian chill as she competes at the slalom and giant slalom events. […]

The scandalous love story between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams is known to many Southern Africans, but one newspaper calls it the “greatest love story you’ve never heard about”. Award-winning British actor David Oyelowo was so captivated by the true story that he’s spent the last five years bringing it to the screen. Seretse was an Oxford-educated student and a […]

Certain cities around the world get a name for great coffee. San Francisco, Seattle, London, Tokyo, Taipei. Now add Cape Town to the pack, especially over the last year or two as specialty coffee shops have exploded all over the Mother City. We sniffed out the best brew to be found. 1. The best coffee shop for over-the-top […]

Jonathan Plaatjies is 29 years old and unemployed. He lives in Nuwe Begin, just outside Mfuleni, about 30 kilometres from Cape Town’s centre. Plaatjies makes a living by collecting and selling scrap to some of the five or so scrapyards in Mfuleni. After Plaatjies lost his job as a security guard at Stellenbosch University he […]

The Virgin Kitesurfing Armada took place on Saturday near Bloubergstrand in Cape Town, bringing together hundreds of kitesurfers in an attempt to break the record for the ‘Largest Parade of Kitesurfers’. After 3 hours of kitesurfing the World Record was smashed – with a total of 415 kitesurfers completing the one mile course between Dolphin Beach and […]

Under the headline “Saffa Day at Snowmass”, a Colorado newspaper snapped 60 South Africans who are working in Aspen during the winter season, with the South African flag draped on the snow in front of them. The Aspen Times said, “A group of roughly 60 South Africans who are working in the area for the […]

It’s been one of the hottest South African summers…and as we all know, there’s no better way to cool down than with a swim in the pool. Barbara von Etzdorf caught these vervet monkeys taking a dip in her swimming pool on New Year’s Eve! Watch Video: Vervet monkeys swim in garden pool https://youtu.be/6jyWY6Who7M

Two kilometres out of Hout Bay lies Dungeons, South Africa’s world famous big wave spot. Most of us never get to see it, being so far out… But yesterday a group of photographers were taken out to capture the big swells and brave surfers on film. Check out these photos from ROBYN GWILT and FABIAN COETZER… “It was a […]

A low-flying South African Air Force Gripen jet that circled a neighbourhood of Johannesburg on Thursday got people tweeting excitedly and taking videos of the seemingly errant plane. And then it was back again on Friday. “Wonderful to hear and see the #Gripen #Fighterjet flying over Randburg this evening again!” was one tweet. Another tweeter said […]

Muizenberg is the little place that could. So many times over the past decades people have believed that the  beach village way on the other side of Cape Town, the surfer’s corner, one of the oldest resorts in the country, might be on the rise. Well, now it finally seems to be coming true. Countless cars and buses used to […]

When Luyanda Sikhakhane hired her gardener, Bongani Mtolo, she could never have dreamt that the young man who did all sorts of odd jobs, was in fact a qualified accountant. “I hired Bongani to help me with our garden. I had called him in for lunch and was trying to help my little brother with […]

Congratulations to South Africa’s Lucas Sithole for winning the Australian Open wheelchair tennis quad doubles title on Thursday in Melbourne. Sithole and his partner, American former world no. 1 David Wagner, beat British Andy Lapthorne and Australian Dylan Alcott 6-1 6-3 in an 1 hour battle at Melbourne Park. According to Tennis.co.za Sithole –  who lost both […]