A South African school that was closed down due to vandalism vanished within six months – after being stolen brick-by-brick by cheeky thieves! The once-proud Uitzig Secondary School in Cape Town used to boast a grand entrance and reception area, along with five classroom blocks and two toilet areas. But once the local education authority […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – One of South Africa’s largest grocery retailers Pick n Pay is expanding a pilot of adding cryptocurrency as a payment option to more stores after the successful completion of the first phase, it said on Tuesday. The announcement came weeks after the Financial Sector Conduct Authority formally declared crypto assets as a […]

South Africa has come out tops – out of 31 countries! – with an amazing 26 Gold medals at the Biathle-Triathle World Championships, which was held over the last four days in Madeira, Portugal. UIPM World Pentathlon said: “The battle for medal supremacy was an all-African affair as South Africa and Egypt shone across almost […]

The South African government has sent its deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of South African radio veteran, Jeremy Mansfield, who passed away at the age of 59. Mansfield, known for his dynamic presence on radio and for his role in raising funds for charity, lost his battle with Stage 4 cancer on […]

David Miller and Aiden Markram hit half-centuries to lead South Africa to a five-wicket win over India in Perth on Sunday. It puts the Proteas in pole position for a semi-final berth at the T20 World Cup, although they’re not getting over-confident. Markram says: “We’ve still got a massive game against Pakistan and we’ve got […]

Popular South African radio personality Jeremy Mansfield has sadly passed away at the age of 59, after a long battle with cancer. His close friend and former co-presenter Samantha Cowan, who is also a collaborator on Mansfield’s YouTube channel Mansfield2day, broke the news on Monday morning. Samantha said: “This morning a light went out in […]

Cape Town organisation feeding nearly three times as many people since 2019. By Ashraf Hendricks With South Africa’s economy staggering, and two in every five adults unemployed, “villages” of homeless people are springing up in South Africa’s cities as increasing numbers of people find themselves on the street. In our series on homelessness, GroundUp looks […]

Gratitude has poured in for the firefighting heroes who battled a wildfire on Table Mountain this weekend, as fire fighting season unfortunately gets underway. Table Mountain Aerial Cableway led tributes on Sunday afternoon to the brave firefighters, saying: “A huge word of thanks to the firefighters who worked tirelessly to bring the fire under control. […]

A teenager tragically drowned yesterday at Llandudno Beach, in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, after apparently slipping off some rocks and being swept away by rip-currents. The 15-year-old female’s body was recovered yesterday about 1km off shore, and surrounded by dolphins. The SABC reported NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon as saying: “An NSRI rescue craft, […]

AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit (PPU) has served papers, on behalf of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), for the appeal against the Potchefstroom Regional Court’s discharge of former Speaker of Parliament Thandi Modise on charges of cruelty to animals. AfriForum PPU is handling the private prosecution of Modise, who is […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa today formally handed over a certificate of recognition to the King of the Zulu nation, His Majesty Misuzulu KaZwelithini, at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. It was the first time for many to witness a certificate handover, as the last occasion – the inauguration of the late King Zwelithini – was […]

At least 153 people have died, including 22 foreigners, after a crowd surge in the central district of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. They were celebrating Halloween and many were wearing masks and Halloween outfits. It was the first Halloween event in Seoul in three years after the country lifted COVID restrictions and social […]

A video is going viral in South Africa of a conversation with a homeless man – Bonga Sithole – in Auckland Park, Johannesburg… with many falling in love with the Zola man who has a brilliant command of the English language, and some wise insight (“I am not defined by this cup,” he says.) In […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived at Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban, KZN, for the certificate of recognition handing over to AmaZulu King Misuzulu KaZwelithini, the final ceremony of his coronation. The historic event, themed “liphumile iLanga kwaZulu – the Sun has risen on the Zulu nation”, will be held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium. […]

Two years of hard teamwork, and considered capital investment, have paid off for Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West, a provincial heritage site renowned for its wine, hospitality and environmental initiatives. The 322-year-old estate has been announced the winner of the coveted Wine Tourism Services category in the 2023 Best of Wine Tourism Awards (BOWTA). […]

Here’s what’s coming up on Carte Blanche this weekend. You can watch the show on Sunday 30 October in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries on Showmax from Tuesday 01 November if you’re abroad. Trees vs Fynbos There’s a war brewing in the Western Cape, where tensions have been […]

A tribunal in the UK has concluded that a South African nurse – Adelaide Kweyama – was the victim of race-related harassment and victimisation when she was told by her NHS boss, a senior nurse, to ‘bleach your skin so that you come back white and the patient will be nice to you’, when she […]

Team SA athletes will be richly rewarded for their awesome performance at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Games. SASCOC will be rewarding Team SA’s 27 medallists and their coaches through incentives funded by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC). Breakdown of the allocations: Athletes’ incentives: Gold- R100 000, per athlete Silver- R 50 000, […]

Over 71,000 members of the youth volunteer group ‘WE ARE ONE’, headquartered in South Korea, have set a new Guinness World Records™ title for the most people to sign up online as blood donors within 24 hours… and they were supported by hundreds of South Africans in SA. ‘WE ARE ONE’ which forms part of […]

Former Junior Springbok backs Manie Libbok and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu earned their first Springbok call-ups on Friday, while there was a recall for Jason Jenkins, who is back in the national set-up four years after making his Test debut, as head coach Jacques Nienaber named his 35-man squad to represent South Africa in the Castle Lager […]

A racist customer who assaulted the employee of a business in Meyerton in Gauteng, and called him the ‘k’ word, has shocked and angered South Africans of all races, but perhaps none more than the province’s Premier Panyaza Lesufi. Lesufi posted the video, in which the customer can be heard repeating the offending word at […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africans should be best informed by the South African government on matters of State security. The President said it was unfortunate that the United States government issued a terror alert on Wednesday without discussing it with the South African government. The SA President said: “It was quite unfortunate that the […]

The richest man in the world, who was born and raised in South Africa, Elon Musk, has entered the Twitter HQ building. “Let that sink in,” he quipped on Twitter yesterday, along with a video showing the historic moment that he took over the social media platform. Today – with good old-fashioned SA humour – […]

South Africans being, well South Africans, have responded with typical humour to the security alert issued by the US Embassy on Wednesday. The alert warned embassy staff and US citizens in SA about a possible terrorist attack expected on Saturday in the Sandton area of Johannesburg. Locals immediately began tweeting memes and jokes about the […]

DIRCO Minister Naledi Pandor has revealed “we are very concerned about terrorism after the alert the US embassy informed us about”, however she deflected attention from the possible attack in Sandton on Saturday to Burkina Faso in North Africa instead. Similarly the Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele admits “we are a bit disturbed”, but insists […]