Through mud and rain, the Springboks played an awesome match against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday 17 November, claiming a 28-0 victory! It’s the first time in two years that the Scots have been left scoreless.  The South African tries in Edinburgh were scored by Willem Alberts, Willie le Roux, JP Pietersen and Coenie Oosthuizen; […]

South African jazz musician Julius Schultz talks exclusively to SAPeople about the power of a supportive wife, chicken curry and the value of being colour blind. The Johannesburg-born guitarist, and father of two, who already has three albums under his belt…has recently released his latest offering…’COLOUR BLIND’. 1. When did you learn to play guitar? […]

A work by South African artist Paul Emmanuel has been included in France’s official state commemoration of the centenary of the First World War next year. Emmanuel’s The Lost Men France was selected by a multidisciplinary committee of World War One experts from France and elsewhere. The programme, which was launched in Paris on 7 November, begins […]

Candice Swanepoel gave fans a sneak preview of herself  in a multi-million dollar bra hours before parading the ‘famous’ Fantasy Bra on the catwalk at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The cool South African supermodel uploaded the image to Instagram a couple of hours before the show, with the message “it’s almost time!” All week […]

South Africans Misty and Dylan Weyer received a warm welcome at Cape Point on 1 November after completing a gruelling two-month mountain biking trip along the Dragon’s Spine – from Beitbridge, southern Zimbabwe, to Cape Town’s Cape Point, via neighbouring Lesotho – to raise funds for children with cerebral palsy. The couple, who hails from […]

Everyone has dreams; for Paul Modjadji that dream is to help people reach their full potential. The Brand ambassador for the City of Tshwane and the Daring to Dream movement, Modjadji is the driving force behind the project. As a big dreamer himself, his story, to live his dream has resulted in him dancing on […]

Compiled by Gary Green Check out the quiz questions below. We’ll publish the answers on Wednesday (6 November 2013). Monday morning music quiz. Six clues for six songs. 1) The dilemma is whether to depart or remain. 2) A piece of granite and a islamic fortress. 3) The junior male is not permitted to shed […]

South African music legend Johnny Clegg was taken by “complete ambush” (his words) when he joined Martin Bester Drive (MBD) radio show in November 2013. The Jacaranda FM radio team had a surprise in store for him…that turned into a tearjerker for both Johnny and the studio team themselves! MBD had contacted Johnny’s musician son […]

Sigourney Weaver is the latest big-name star to join the cast of Chappie, Neill Blomkamp’s movie about a kidnapped robot. Production started in Johannesburg this week. Blomkamp, the South African writer and director whose debut movie District 9 attracted a best movie Oscar nomination in 2010, will direct Chappie from the screenplay he wrote with […]

The award-winning Elelwani, the world’s first Tshivenda-language feature film, will have a special run at Johannesburg’s Cinema Nouveau from 1 to 7 November before opening in South African cinemas in January. The November run will ensure that the film can be considered for next year’s South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas), says Helen Kuun, chief […]

Loyiso Bala may be known unofficially as South Africa’s king of R&B, but now the much-loved entertainer has added an official title to his name: he has been appointed South African UNAids Goodwill Ambassador. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) made the announcement on 21 October. As a goodwill ambassador, 34-year-old Bala will […]

Three South Africans are in the top 10 of the overall rankings of the Fina Swimming World Cup after back-to-back events in Dubai and Doha, which ended on Monday, with Chad le Clos in first place. The 21-year-old from Durban enjoys a convincing lead at the top of the standings, with 332 points to his […]

  Mokgoro Ntshieng, creative director of the Olive Tree Theatre, is passionate about her art form and its ability to transform society. She believes that if given an opportunity to tell your story, you can change perceptions. In South African theatre, women’s voices have been muted, so she and her business partner, producer Kerryn Irvin, […]

Tucker Vorster and Japie De Klerk are on cloud nine after both players received a call from South African Davis Cup captain, John-Laffnie De Jager, requesting their availability for the forthcoming Davis Cup tie against Russia. Vorster and De Klerk jetted into the Russian capital on Sunday with the rest of the South African Davis […]

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has unveiled the nominees for the 41st International Emmy Awards, and two popular South African shows are on the list. SA represents Nominated in the comedy category the satirical news series Late Nite News (LNN) is in its eighth season. The show is hosted by stand-up comedian, Loyiso Gola, and […]

South African surfer Jordy Smith is in with a chance of winning the Moche Rip Curl Pro at Supertubos in Peniche, Portugal today! After four lay days, competition resumed yesterday in firing 1-1,5 metre waves. Earlier today Australia’s Mick Fanning was knocked out in the quarter finals which allows Jordy, Joel Parkinson (Australia) and Kelly […]

Celebrated South African playwright, director and producer, Mokgoro Ntshieng, is hoping to bring the magic of theatre a little closer to home by inspiring women to play a major role in performance art. Already established in performance art, Ntshieng has founded her own women’s theatre, Olive Tree Theatre Productions, in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, Gauteng. Ntshieng has […]

A team of South African scientists and international collaborators has discovered the first evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, “raining down a shock-wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path”, Johannesburg’s Wits University announced on Tuesday. According to the university, the discovery “has not only provided the first definitive […]

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, the big-screen dramatisation of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, won the Audience Favourite Feature award at the Aspen Filmfest in the United States, it was announced on Wednesday night. The film beat a number of heavyweight contenders, includingThe Fifth Estate,August: Osage County,NebraskaandOne Chance, to emerge as the most popular film at the […]

Charismatic human rights champion and Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu turns 82 today. Archbishop Tutu – or the Arch, as he is fondly known – is often considered the moral conscience of South Africa and the world. A passionate opponent of the apartheid government and “rabble-rouser for peace”, he retired as archbishop of the […]

An outrageous interview with a South African student  took the internet by storm last month, receiving almost half-a-million views on YouTube within a day of being uploaded. And it was soon all the buzz on Reddit, Facebook and forums with people calling the student “the coolest guy ever in South Africa”.  In the hilarious video […]

South African supermodel Candice Swanepoel has put a smile on many faces in the past week – modelling for Operation Smile charity and posing in video clips. But the biggest  smile  was the one on her own face…when she spotted her mom at the airport in South Africa. She described it, on Instagram, as “that […]

Princess Charlene has recently been the toast of Paris (where she outshone the supermodels at Paris Fashion Week), New York where she and Prince Albert II dined with the President and First Lady…and, with barely a moment back home at the Palace to unpack, she and her husband are on their way today to the […]

Richard Branson broke a Guinness World Record in South Africa this morning by squeezing 25 women into a Mini Cooper! Yes, you read that right! And all 25 ladies were each over five-foot tall. The inimitable entrepreneur, who has a penchant for Guiness World Records, published a post today on his Virgin website headlined “How […]

Feel-good South African film FELIX – which carries  the message that ‘in every one of us lies a talent waiting to be shared’ – has aptly had its own talent recognised by winning the Best Children’s Film at a Festival in Germany. FELIX was selected from over 400 worldwide entries for the €7 500 award at […]