Here’s what’s coming up on Carte Blanche this week. You can watch the show today, Sunday 5 February in South Africa on DStv Now OR stream it overseas in most countries on Showmax from Tuesday 7 February if you’re abroad. Air Tales When a South African Airways Airbus A340-600 landed in Johannesburg from Accra, Ghana […]

The rugby world is abuzz with the phenomenal performance by South African expat Duhan van der Merwe, scoring one of the greatest Twickenham tries ever on Saturday and then adding a match-winner five minutes before from time to help Scotland secure an amazing 29-23 win over England in the Calcutta Cup. Van der Merwe was […]

‘Shimoni’, a directorial debut feature by Kenyan director Angela Wanjiku Wamai, is competing in the Joburg Film Festival where it had its African premiere yesterday. The film was also among the Bright Future films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Angela told SAPeople: “I couldn’t make it (to Joburg) because I’m doing a writing […]

A film from Africa has scooped the top prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Cameroonian filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou won the festival’s Tiger Competition Award 2023 on Friday night, with her profound documentary ‘Le Spectre de Boko Haram’, beating out 15 other finalists from around the world. Raingou sat down to speak with SAPeople […]

If you’re looking for an adventure this weekend, or on your next holiday to South Africa… head to Mossel Bay for a ride on their exciting zipline – the world’s longest over-ocean zipline! As you can see from the epic photos on this page, by Coulson Art Photography, it’s the perfect bucket list item for […]

Samantha Jacobs is becoming well known on social media for her honest opinions on the current state of South Africa, the world, and just life in general. Here’s her latest admission – she doesn’t always return her shopping trolley: I didn’t return my grocery cart. I am mentioning it since a meme on Facebook has […]

Multi-award winning singer Nomcebo Zikode – most famous for Jerusalema – has enjoyed an incredible couple of years that’ve seen her elevated to global superstar status. Her powerful voice in international super-hit ‘Jerusalema’ mesmerised audiences around the world. But it’s for a very different track that Nomcebo is poised to win one of her greatest […]

Travel writing in Africa is often associated with colonial ventures of the past or white adventure pursuits of today. But Africans themselves have long produced captivating travel texts in oral and written forms. We need to look beyond narrowly western or white accounts as travel writing is produced across the world by an extensive range […]

The Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) has welcomed about 6,000 crime prevention wardens in an effort to augment crime-fighting efforts made by SAPS and Metropolitan Police Departments. The 6000 recruits – who are all young – will undergo at least three months of training before being deployed to 361 wards in the province including townships, informal […]

In a ground-breaking judgment handed down yesterday by the Johannesburg High Court, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has won its long-running battle to expose the complete records of the ANC’s national cadre deployment committee’s role in the corruption, capture and collapse of South Africa’s public sector. South Africans will now for the very first time be able […]

Eskom is focussed on five key priorities in its mission to improve power station performance and ease load shedding for South Africa, according to board member Mteto Nyati. Speaking on Thursday he said the priorities are: The 24-month generation recovery plan, which has two key elements – firstly, “make sure that we have and we […]

Well known South African teacher Pamela Kantor has reached out on social media for help in assisting a young girl who is in her class this year. Beautiful little Livhu has crept right into Pamela’s heart… Livhu was born at just 28 weeks old, and subsequently suffers chronic lung disease. She’s also asthmatic, amongst other […]

New Zealand Rugby are pursuing Tiaan Whelpton, a South African-born sprinter who clocked 10.09 in the 100m. According to Stuff.co.nz, the 22-year-old Whelpton emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 2018 and gained citizenship in 2020. ALSO READ: Springboks expecting hostile reception at World Cup In an interview with the publication, Whelpton confirmed that the New […]

Findings of a two-year study by The Open University in the UK show that it’s not grand bouquets of flowers and boxes of chocolates that keep love alive, but rather selfless gestures, with a cup of tea being singled out as a significant sign of a partner’s affection. Researchers interviewed close to 5,000 men and […]

On the opening day of The Joburg Film Festival, Showmax released an open commissioning brief to the African film industry calling for pitches for a slate of 10 live action films. The African streamer has won the South African Film and Television Awards’ (SAFTAs) Made-for-TV Movie Award for two years in a row, first with […]

The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles came alive on Wednesday with a powerful discussion and outstanding performances  by South African musicians in the lead up to the Grammy Awards on 5 February (which will be hosted by fellow South African, comedian Trevor Noah for the third time!). SA dance music star Zakes Bantwini and award-winning […]

Reality competition show, The Ultimate Braai Master, (UBM) Season 8 (S8) will premiere on e.tv at 5pm this Sunday, 5th February 2023. Filmed at various scenic locations in the Western Cape, Season 8 promises to be another thrilling adventure with 10 teams of braai master hopefuls and their buddies battling it out for awesome prizes […]

As the Proteas are raising spirits in South Africa with their stellar performance against England in the ODI series (SA has already secured a 2-0 victory with the last match today in Kimberley), children across the country are being inspired to play cricket. And, thanks in part to Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Cargo, there are […]

While Felicia didn’t know much about 4IR last year, along with more than 100 of her peers – women over 50 years of age living in some of the most crime-ridden areas of the Western Cape – she can now not only code successfully but also train other people in her community. The unlikely demographic […]

The City of Cape Town is excited to embark on its Digital Internship Programme to help build much-needed skills in South Africa. The graduate programme has attracted applications from more than 790 graduates, which confirm the City is a sought-after employer. ‘The graduate programme has attracted more than 790 applicants from universities across the Western […]

South Africa has been admitted as a member of the International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) following a competitive application process. The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) will serve as joint institutional members. The HFSP promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on elucidating the sophisticated and complex […]

South African solo sailer Adrian Kuttel made history this week in the Cape 2 Rio race, along with SA skipper Sibusiso Sizatu. Kuttel is the first competitor to bravely complete the famous yacht race as a solo sailer (see more below), while Sizatu and his awesome ArchAngel teammates are the first complete crew to finish […]

The Zwelethemba High School (ZHS) robotics team is gearing up to jet-off to Massachusetts in the United States of America (USA) in a couple of months. The Einsteins, as they are affectionately known, have been selected as one of the best performing teams to participate in the US Robotics Open Tournament in June… writes Khwezi […]

The Blitzboks kept their unbeaten run intact with a very good 31-12 victory over Fiji in their HSBC Sydney Sevens semi-final on Sunday morning, to book their place in the Final against New Zealand. The rematch against the Kiwis, who beat France by 36-5 in the first semi-final, will start at 11h26, with the Springbok […]

Springbok Sevens coach Sandile Ngcobo heaped praise on his players after the Blitzboks made it into the last four in Australia, where they will face Fiji in the semi-finals of the HSBC Sydney Sevens on Sunday. The Blitzboks beat Uruguay (28-12) and New Zealand (17-14) in their Pool B matches before they knocked Ireland out […]