The almost 300 South African firefighters deployed in Canada to help with wildfires there have been demobilised and are arriving home tomorrow, according to the minister of environmental affairs, who asked South Africa not to condemn the firefighters for what happened in Canada. “Condemning them for disappointing us can only demoralise them despite their successful track-record,” minister […]

The South African Police Services (SAPS) announced the arrest of a 21-year-old male at 15h30 today at Stellenbosch SAPS in connection with the January 2015 axe murders of three members of a family on the De Zalze Golf Estate. In video footage posted on YouTube it appears to show the son and brother of the […]

PRETORIA (Reuters) – Oscar Pistorius has shown no remorse for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a prosecutor told a court on Monday, while a psychologist described him as “a broken man” who should not be jailed. The 29-year-old Paralympic gold medallist, known as “Blade Runner” for the carbon-fibre prosthetics he used to wear […]

Former ANC secretary general Cheryl Carolus says that President Jacob Zuma is dividing the country and African National Congress for his own enrichment, and that his legal bills have already reached R1 billion. “If you add up all the things that the president has serially (done), since pre-Polokwane, the legal costs, hundreds of millions each case,” Carolus told […]

The murder trial for athlete Oscar Pistorius returns to the High Court in Pretoria today for sentencing. Watch it live below. UPDATE: View photos and wrap up of Oscar Pistorius trial today. Pistorius is being sentenced in the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp who he shot and killed in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013. […]

Most of the websites of the SA Broadcasting Corporation, if not all of them, went down for hours on Sunday, after being hit by hacktivists acting against SABC’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s steps to allegedly censor the news. Anonymous Africa, which took similar action against the EFF a day earlier, said in a tweet early on Sunday […]

JOHANNESBURG – Oakbay has responded to allegations in the Sunday Times today that the Guptas may have been illegally sending money out of South Africa. According to the Times report, the Reserve Bank has asked the Bank of Baroda in India to release documents related to Gupta accounts. In a statement released on behalf of […]

Springbok pivot Pat Lambie has been ruled out of the second test match of the Castle Lager Incoming Series against Ireland next weekend after being concussed in the series opener at DHL Newlands which Ireland won 26-20. Lambie was injured in a tackle that saw Irish flanker – and fellow South African – CJ Stander being […]

Actually it was more than just luck that helped Ireland secure a 26-20 win against South Africa at DHL Newlands in Cape Town today. With one man down, the 14-strong Irish team managed to outwit and outplay the Springboks with a gutsy game and determination to make history with their first win ever on South […]

The hashtag #LoveRugby will appear emblazoned on the back of the Springbok jersey in the first Test against Ireland in Cape Town, South Africa, today as SA Rugby (SARU) reclaims the “good story” they have to tell but which is not always heard. The Springboks kick off at 17h00 against Ireland at DHL Newlands in […]

A diamond found in South African in 2014, the Cullinan Dream, has become the most expensive Fancy Intense blue diamond sold at auction, according to Christie’s. The diamond sold in New York this week for $25,365,000. In the audience was Mark Cullinan, an international jewelry dealer and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Cullinan, who discovered the Cullinan […]

The MyCiti bus service in Cape Town has launched a free WFfi service on a number of its buses, and will continue the rollout gradually. The programme will begin on Monday. MyCiti said in a statement on Thursday the pilot on-board wifi offering will provide each passenger on a number of buses in the city centre with 50MB of data […]

A veritable who’s who of South African politics were at The Gathering in Midrand on Friday, organised by Nando’s and the Daily Maverick. The focus was on the municipal elections, and speakers included everyone from three Joburg mayoral candidates to finance minister Pravin Gordhan to the EFF’s Julius Malema – who, going by the coverage he got, had […]

More than five months after KwaZulu-Natal realtor Penny Sparrow hit world headlines for posting a racist remark on Facebook about the black people on the beach over the festive season, she has been ordered to pay R150,000 to the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation. In her post Sparrow compared the beachgoers to monkeys, unleashing a […]

Working on Fire, the South African group whose team of 281 firefighters went to help fight wildfires in Canada, said on Friday it was “extremely disappointed” with the turn of events this week when its team refused to work for two days over a pay dispute, which then “escalated into an international incident”. “To have a […]

The premier of the Canadian province of Alberta has stepped into the fray over how much 281 South African firefighters there are being paid to fight forest blazes, while the team’s South African managers are apparently on their way to demobilise the men and women who have refused to work for two days. The premier, Rachel […]

After almost 40 years, the days may be numbered for Cape Town’s highway to nowhere. Mayor Patricia de Lille reportedly told a press conference last week that plans are in motion to join the so-called Unfinished Bridge near the V&A Waterfront to the N1. De Lille said plans would be announced later in June. In the […]

One South African airline’s loss is another African airline’s very valuable gain, it seems. Mango, the low-cost sister airline to South African Airways, is losing its CEO Nico Bezuidenhout, who many credit with the airline’s success while SAA stumbles from crisis to crisis. He is moving to the six-year-old African low-cost carrier fastjet, where he will also be CEO. […]

A team from South Africa is heading to Canada to clear up the confusion over the wages of almost 300 SA firefighters who arrived in Canada a week ago but refused to go to work on Wednesday because of a dispute over wages. It was a very different scene in Alberta from the one in late May […]

A guide from the tour group Pelican Point Kayaking in the Walvis Bay area of Namibia came across a stranded baby dolphin during one of their tours, and although he thought it would not survive, he carried it back to the water, only to see it come to life suddenly and dart off into the waves. The […]

After recently banning the footage of violent protests on SABC, it appears that the South African national broadcaster’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has now also banned the reading of newspaper headlines on all SABC radio stations, a practice that is common around the world. The Democratic Alliance (DA) said in a statement that they have been “reliably […]

If you’ve ever wondered how much a member of parliament in South Africa makes a month, or which MPs work hardest for their money, a new breakdown of the figures sets it all out – in hundreds of thousands of rands, cents and hours. The lists, which were released Wednesday by Africa Check and are based […]

In a joint statement Wednesday from SA Rugby and the ANC Youth League it was confirmed that plans to disrupt Springbok Test matches have been cancelled, as a result of “positive engagements between the two bodies”. ANC Youth League Secretary General Njabulo Nzuza said that although rugby still had much work to do, his organisation had […]

Following the decisions by ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s over the past weeks to not downgrade South Africa to junk status, the third important ratings agency Fitch today followed suit. The rand, which has rollercoastered over the last five months, reaching a low of almost R18 to the dollar in January, firmed even […]

The security cluster of the South African government met on Wednesday to discuss a warning by the United States that shopping malls in Johannesburg and Cape Town could be a target for Islamic militants during Ramadan. In a statement, the presidency said it had “noted the security alert that the United States government has issued to its […]