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Team South Africa Wins Eurasian Schools Debating Championships!

By SAPeople 07-02-16 20:58

Team South Africa returned home today from Turkey after an awesome win at the Eurasian Schools Debating Championship (ESDC) 2016. The young South Africans won 9-0 in the Grand Final debate opposing Team Romania on the motion THBT (this house believes that) employers should not require employees to have university degrees. Team Romania congratulated South Africa on […]

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Former Miss World Rolene Strauss Marries

By SAPeople 08-02-16 22:37

South African beauty queen and former Miss World title holder, Rolene Strauss has married the love of her life, D’Niel Strauss (founder of Orientis Venture Capital). The 23-year-old posted the Ecclesiastes 3:1 Biblical passage to her facebook page this morning: “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” She then added […]

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The Melkbos Dad Who’s Making a Difference

By SAPeople 07-02-16 12:47

A wonderfully caring father has been inspiring South Africans this week since a photo of his morning ritual became popular on Facebook, inspiring others with its Starfish poem-like qualities… The pollution-fighting Western Cape resident has become a bit of a sensation on social media since his proud daughter, Sonja Smith-Janse van Rensburg, posted the following photo […]

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SA Teen Leroy Mokgatle Wins Top International Dance Scholarship!

By SAPeople 05-04-18 00:09

Congratulations to South African teenager Leroy Mokgatle who has won the audience choice award and a scholarship at the international ballet competition “Prix de Lausanne” held in Switzerland. Leroy’s prestigious scholarship award is only the second awarded to a South African in the competition’s 44-year history, and the first for SA in 28 years. Non-profit dance […]

Home Affairs Confirms New Passport Measures are on Track

By SAPeople 06-02-16 19:51

Department of Home Affairs (DHA) Director General Mkuseli Apleni said in a statement yesterday that the DHA is on track with the implementation of those Cabinet concessions on immigration rules which were announced in October 2015. These include an extension of the expiry date of the Parental Consent Affidavit, and the future roll-out of South African passports […]

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“I See South Africa Everywhere I Go”

By SAPeople Staff Writer 06-02-16 08:39

Lots of us have it, a kind of nostalgia-memory about home triggered by the littlest thing. We’ll be somewhere abroad and suddenly see, hear, smell something that reminds us of South Africa. Even New Yorker Sean Evans still gets it after spending only two weeks in the country. In an article in Conde Nast Traveler […]

Got Contacts in Durban? Help Make Dreams Come True for Orphans…

By SAPeople 06-02-16 06:15

Does anyone know anyone who works at uShaka Marine World and could help make a dream come true for a group of orphaned and vulnerable kids from Gauteng? The children and the staff, from Winnie Mabaso Foundation, are “mega excited” to be heading to Durban in March for the first time in their lives, thanks to […]

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The African Bush – Sunsets, Wildlife and Wonderful Views

By SAPeople Contributor 05-02-16 00:03

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 […]

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While You Were Sleeping…Secret Sunrisers were Celebrating!

By SAPeople Contributor 04-02-16 17:26

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 […]

25 Books Every South African Should Read

By SAPeople Contributor 04-02-16 17:59

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 […]

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South Africa’s Proteas Don Pink to Raise R1M to Fight Cancer

By SAPeople Contributor 04-02-16 13:26

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 […]

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Rare Group of Lions Found in Ethiopia by Research Team

By SAPeople Staff Writer 03-02-16 14:35

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,” […]

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Nandos Advert Offers President Zuma #PayBackTheMoney Options

By SAPeople 02-01-21 17:18

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 […]

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WATCH Baby Rhino Chasing the Birds. For Roger.

By SAPeople 10-02-16 18:56

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 […]

WATCH Ellen and the South African Couple Devoted to Wildlife

By SAPeople Staff Writer 02-02-16 12:35

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 […]

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Here Comes The Movie About Africa’s Most Scandalous Love Story

By SAPeople Staff Writer 01-02-16 07:11

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 […]

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Cape Town Has the Best Coffee Shops in South Africa

By SAPeople Staff Writer 31-01-16 17:46

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 […]

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