I’m sorry if the title brought you here in hopes I’d be talking about who would win in a fist fight between Canada and South Africa. That would be ridiculous because there couldn’t be any possible way of knowing (but for the record, it would totally be Canada. We’re able to harness the power of […]

While admitting he is living his dream, South African comedian Trevor Noah has also revealed that he was suffering depression… and it was thanks to Hollywood star Jim Carrey that he realised it and was able to find a way to fight it. Whilst accepting the Comedy Person of the Year Award at the Just […]

It’s hard to watch this without wanting to sob with pride – South Africa’s comedian who was “born a crime”, Trevor Noah, interviewing South Africa’s Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’! And their main topic of conversation is of course… South Africa. As can be seen in the interview, the two […]

It was inevitable. Instead of a Dear Gupta’s open letter, here’s an open song… from ‘South Africa’ to the Gupta family (who are suspected by many South Africans of having captured the state). With music by Rusty Cage and Kazuley, and lyrics by ATSGemwolf (R.P.), the video is described as “a song with a message […]

Tour guide, Francois Van Rensburg, has shared his true life story of an unfortunate – but very funny – incident at the Pretorius Kop Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park,  Mpumalanga, South Africa. Francois, who works for PenQuin Tours, outlined the course of events – which happened two weeks ago – on Facebook, which […]

After Miss South Africa, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, was criticised by some for wearing gloves to hand out food to children, at a soup drive this week in Soweto, Twitter went crazy with a #MissSAChallenge making fun of her… but nobody has posted a better video than Demi-Leigh herself! Watch below… Demi-Leigh, like all volunteers at the […]

This video, which was filmed in South Africa, has to be one of the unfunniest pranks ever played. It was shared a couple of weeks ago by a Somali website, and has been shocking social media users ever since. There’s no mention of when it was filmed or by whom… but after (far too many […]

Watch this video, filmed a couple of years ago, where South African comedian Trevor Noah highlights how many times in South Africa’s recent history – particularly whenever there’s a Presidential election – scores of people swear the time has finally come to pack their bags and move to Perth… yet, somehow, they always stay… Ironically […]

PRETORIA – The Department of Correctional Services says 13 officials will be served with letters of contemplation of suspension, following the explicit entertainment at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre. (Please see Update 29 June, 2017, at bottom of page.) “At this stage, the preliminary findings indicate that at least 13 officials will be served with letters of […]

It had to happen. South Africa’s legendary ‘Van der Merwe’ – the butt of many jokes – finally has his own movie! With Rob van Vuuren in the lead, the film is set on a farm in South Africa; and centres around Van’s daughter, Marike (Reine Swart), who returns home from a gap year in England […]

If you want to watch something very typically South African, watch these guys trying to get a stuck land cruiser out of the water and mud! As one of the men in the video says at one point: “Brandewyn en modder” (brandy and mud). It couldn’t get more South African than that! South Africans have […]

A post by Capetonian Wayne Nefdt, former owner of Red Rock Cafe, has gone totally viral on Facebook… being shared by over seven thousand (very proud!) South Africans since he posted it on 15 June. The post is called How To Tell If You Are South African… You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume” […]

Heart FM breakfast show host, Aden Thomas, met Sophie Bailey in Saldanha. Afterwards he shared this video, and said: “I have never laughed this lekker in a long time! Jy het dit meisie! #Saldanha.” Watch Sophie Bailey meet Aden Thomas (and her ‘Ben 10’) in Saldanha! https://www.facebook.com/adenthomasradio/videos/561335787588809/

Okay, first the serious stuff. Here is everything you need to know about what some are calling ‘Dik Wednesday‘ (inspired by the surf movie ‘Big Wednesday’). The Western Cape could be in for a very, very severe storm if predictions are correct. (Scroll down also for some of the memes and jokes that are already being […]

A video of a man – known as the ‘White Zulu’ – at the Caltex Crompton petrol station in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, is going viral amongst South Africans for the wonderful way in which he crosses racial boundaries with love and laughter. The owners of the petrol station told SAPeople they hired Tim Boettiger (52) to help […]

Trevor Noah think he knows what Covfefe means… watch this brilliant video the South African comedian made for his American show – The Daily Show – after Donald Tump’s late night tweet caused a storm in a teacup… as the world tried to work out what “covfefe” meant. Trevor Noah and the Daily Show Present: Covfefe… Based […]

South Africa’s (and the world’s) favourite hot peri-peri chicken outlet – Nando’s – has done it again with a timely advert that makes fun of the politics of the day. On Thursday evening, Nando’s posted the ad below: “Ordered to go? We’ve got choices you won’t come under fire for.” The popular restaurant chain added […]

It’s drizzled today in the Western Cape. In some places it even rain rained. But it’s still not enough. Not nearly enough. And so locals – Capetonians particularly – are being begged, bribed and cajoled into saving more water. They’ve heard every recommendation now – from using shower water to flush the loo, to bathing […]

When things get bad in South Africa, people get funny. And the Cape Town water crisis, that is currently gripping the city, continues is no exception. After authorities have tried everything from educating, fining and even naming and shaming to try and get some reluctant residents on board to truly save water… two locals are trying […]

One of the funniest Justin Bieber concert reviews (read ‘rants’) has been penned by a Capetonian father (and Media Lecturer at the University of Cape Town), Ron Irwin… and it’s being shared by thousands of people, not just in South Africa, but around the world. Irwin, who’s originally from New York and is actually a […]

Sometimes it seems that South Africans are a little harsh on their leader, President Jacob Zuma… but here’s proof that America’s leader, President Donald Trump, suffers much of the same humorous digs from his people in memes shared on social media… They’ve both been compared to a former leader of their country… in a disparaging way: […]

South African comedian Trevor Noah has won the MTV Film and Television Award for Best Host, for his work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in the USA. The South African expat, who now lives in New York, posted this photo afterwards, with rapper Snoop Dogg and businesswoman Martha Stewart, saying: “Backstage after winning MTV award […]

I had a great life in Canada. I was comfortable. My career was on the right path. We were close to family and friends. Then, I was talking to one of our senior VPs one day, and he brought up the possibility of me taking a position with the company in South Africa… One catch […]

Since we’ve moved to South Africa, we’ve made some great South African friends. And American friends. And German friends. But that’s it (step up your game, rest of the world). Anyway, one of our American friends had some extra tickets to a rugby game in Pretoria and invited us to come with her (thanks, Louise!). […]

We all have that one friend who’s a little bit of a geek. Just a little uncool. And it turns out, so do giraffes! A Canadian living in South Africa, Phil Maloney, captured a very enthusiastic giraffe having a very geeky moment on video on Monday in the Kruger National Park… watch below. Phil’s wife, three-year-old daughter […]