It was National Dessert Day on Wednesday in America, and since South Africa doesn’t have its own dedicated day (although Melk Tart does have a national day on 27th February)…we thought we’d use this excuse to celebrate with South African desserts this weekend. [vc_button title=”1″ color=”default”] Peppermint Crisp Tart Peppermint Crisp tart is a South […]

It’s been a big week for South African tennis player Kevin Anderson. At the start of the week it was announced that he has made it into the elite group of Top 10 highest ranked ATP male tennis players in the world…and this week he beat the world’s no. 6 for the first time (but has […]

This week the South African jokes have been flying on social media, centred around the President’s fumbling of numbers, Springbok rugby players meeting the Queen, and the forthcoming Rugby World Cup (RWC) quarter finals between SA and Wales on Saturday. Here’s a selection… 1. That number blunder A video went viral of President Zuma fumbling over […]

Popular South African radio and TV presenter Darren Scott is out of surgery and will now begin his road to recovery. His wife, Sarah-Kate, reported on Facebook this evening that her husband is in recovery after a successful five-hour operation today. Darren announced on Facebook yesterday that his melanoma cancer had returned for the fourth time (joking that it […]

New Zealand’s ‘The Crowd Goes Wild’ (CGW) sports show has compiled this light-hearted video comprising a press conference with the Springboks and footage – speeded up – of them training on the Pennyhill Park manicured field (which matches that of Twickenham)…as if it’s a Benny Hill skit. Last weekend the Springboks moved into the English team’s training camp at the […]

What if we won the Rugby World Cup? I would guess that question has been asked many times in the last few decades. The interesting thing is that we have actually shown the world on a few occasions that we can be a nation of winners! Yes, we have actually won and defied many sceptics in the process. […]

Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge in Botswana is one of nine hotels vying for the top hotel award at this year’s World Architecture Festival, to be held in Singapore in November. The 12-suite lodge’s unique shape has been likened to an upturned boat or a big wooden ribcage, although we prefer the allusion to the endangered pangolin. […]

The experienced JP Pietersen is back in the Springboks’ starting line-up for their Rugby World Cup (RWC) quarter-final against Wales at Twickenham in London on Saturday afternoon. Pietersen – who scored a hat-trick against Samoa in the second pool match – is included in the only change to the starting team that beat the USA […]

The title of Evan Haussmann’s video says it all: ‘How to film a charging rhino (and not crap yourself).’ Says photographer journalist Haussmann, who took the video in 2012 (although it continues to get circulated for the ‘rush’ it gives): “So I’m minding my own business while working in the greater Kruger area and this […]

It’s not just the purple jacaranda trees that are brightening the roads and pavements of Pretoria. The white jacarandas are pretty spectacular too. RIA VILJOEN captured the photos on this page of the white blossomed trees blooming in Pretoria, otherwise known as Jacaranda City. The trees with pure white flowers instead of purple – about […]

Bryan Habana’s having a blast at the Rugby World Cup (RWC). He’s equalled a world record, celebrated his victories on the field with his adorable son, and went to visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace last night. And through it all, he remains humble. Look at this message he wrote after equalling Jonah Lomu’s world record […]

There’s a resounding message from South Africans abroad: “Let’s get together this Saturday!” It’s the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal. South Africa vs Wales. At Twickenham. Kicks off at 5pm SA time. Where will you be? We’ve been inundated with messages from expats around the world wanting to know where they can watch the game in […]

Maboneng, Joburg’s hot new shopping and eating area, was one of the first to glam up old shipping containers with glass windows and wooden floors to turn them into retail shops, but now Melville has gone one better by creating the 27Boxes mall out of over two dozen of them. Opened in July, the mall is one of the […]

Here’s some soul food straight from the Western Cape…fresh and fabulous (with foam on top). ZAAHID APPOLES captured this video of the waves and sounds of the ocean at the DaleBrook tidal pool and rocks in Kalk Bay, as well as bright and beautiful pictures from a “stunner Muizenberg and Fish Hoek beach”. Watch (and Listen) to […]

The trek fishermen of the Cape captured their first Yellowtail of the season this weekend. Photographer GALE MCALL was there to take these fantastic photos. Gail has been capturing the fishermen’s everyday lives for the past five years, photographing them and getting to know the characters that head to the beach each day. She says: “They all have their place… They […]

The Rugby World Cup (RWC) in England is heating up with less than a week to go till the quarter finals where South Africa will meet Wales. As the RWC bids farewell to the many teams who have not made it through to the quarters (including host country England!), it is perhaps Japan who will be […]

Just in time for the worldwide release of the highly anticipated Danny Boyle movie ‘Steve Jobs’, about the Apple founder, a South African version of the trailer – with a couple of ‘bliksems’ and ‘voetseks’ thrown in – has been uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/H_tnqZ_686w The movie stars Michael Fassbender as the legendary but controversial Jobs, as […]

Some 4,000 people in Johannesburg climbed in the saddle early on Sunday for the fourth annual Freedom Ride Jozi, the organisers said, “celebrating the memory of Nelson Mandela and the freedom to ride around the city”. The 27-kilometre ride – on which only five minor injuries were reported – was free and part of Freedom Ride’s […]

In one of the funniest SA’s Got Talent moments this season, a Soweto-born and Sandton-raised comedian (therefore, as he says, “technically a coconut”) secured three ‘yes’ votes with the following stand-up routine. Thirty-year-old Mum-Z, who works in advertising and does comedy on the side, didn’t hold back in highlighting the advantages of being a ‘coconut’ […]

We love our South African sunset so much – here’s a whole page dedicated to this evening’s sensational scene in Pretoria to Kommetjie and Cape Town in the Western Cape. Ria Viljoen took a sequence of photos of today’s sunset at “Union Building” (just one building!) in Pretoria, with former President Nelson Mandela’s nine-metre high statue in […]

Australia beat Wales 15-6 in an exciting nail-biting match – refereed by South African Craig Joubert – this evening in the Rugby World Cup (RWC) at Twickenham. This  means that South Africa will meet Wales in the quarter finals next Saturday 17 October 2015. It was an intense and thrilling game, although perhaps disappointingly for Joubert – […]

Two of the most popular wildlife videos on YouTube, watched millions of times already, are of grown men playing with lions as if they were their pet kitties. The scenes of human-animal love are so intoxicating, it makes everyone want to go out and do the same, walk with a lion, pet a cute little cub. […]

South Africa’s 21st wine route has just been launched…and it’s quite spectacular, with so much more than just wonderful wine. Less than two hours out of Cape Town, the Stanford Wine Route in the Western Province is perfect for a day out… or even a relaxing weekend. It’s such a beautiful part of the world where […]

KFC South Africa have uploaded a new advert to YouTube that you’ll either find very funny…or a little distasteful! The commercial starts with a scene very similar to that in which Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning found himself in, on 19 July this year, in Jeffrey’s Bay…when he had a close encounter with a shark […]

Many people have welcomed Al Jazeera’s portrayal of Africa in a segment on ‘UpFront’ called ‘Reality Check: Africa is not a Country’. Some said it heralded a welcome contrast to the depiction of Africa that is often presented by other large global news media of a continent filled with doom and gloom that needed outsider […]