A week after traders in downtown Johannesburg attacked police for raiding their stores in search of counterfeit goods, the South African Police today descended on the city centre again, and found arms and ammunition and phoney merchandise in the ongoing operation. SAPS continue raiding Johannesburg CDB and confiscated counterfeit goods #SABCNews #JoburgRaid pic.twitter.com/Lj4rskl0sa — SABC […]

Major Zizi Peters says she’s proud to be the First Flying Instructor of Colour in the South African Air Force. Her achievements – she’s also a military pilot – have been celebrated with a video interview posted to YouTube in August, National Women’s Month. Stationed at Air Force Base Langebaanweg, Major Peters says she’s proud […]

South African police have reportedly arrested three suspects in connection with the case of missing Cape Town woman Meghan Cremer. They were found in possession of her stolen vehicle, although there is no trace of Meghan, an avid horse rider. The 30-year-old brunette was last seen on Saturday evening, wearing a green top and black […]

Watch this brilliant, brilliant performance by the Rustenburg High School Choir in South Africa, singing Queen’s famous Bohemian Rhapsody. WATCH VIDEO: Bohemian Rhapsody by Rustenburg High School As Joburg Public Relations consultant Georg Knoke told SAPeople: “Freddie Mercury smiles! What incredible talent! Bravo!” The conductor behind this mesmerising performance is none other than Ralf Schmitt, […]

Judgment was handed down in the Pretoria High Court, South Africa, today regarding the controversial lion bone export quotas from South Africa. The Court ruled in favour of the NSPCA, finding that the setting – by the Minister of Environmental Affairs – of the annual quotas in 2017 and 2018 was unlawful, constitutionally invalid, and […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s state power utility Eskom urgently needs a turnaround plan as its capital structure is unsustainable, credit ratings agency Moody’s said on Tuesday in a report which sent the rand to a two-month low. A week ago Eskom reported a mammoth R20.7 billion ($1.39 billion) annual loss, and its outgoing chief executive […]

Nobel prize-winning author Tony Morrison passed away on Monday night, after a brief illness. She was, in the words of South Africa’s EFF, “a truth teller, a groundbreaking and visionary novelist, an essayist and a teacher”. Morrison’s publisher Alfred A. Knopf said in a statement on social media “We are profoundly sad to report that […]

The National Council of SPCAs has the formidable task of ensuring the nationwide protection of all animal species from abuse, neglect, and cruelty. One of the most effective ways to do this, is through the courts. Sadly, in the fight for justice, the plight of animals is often ignored or found at the bottom of […]

South African Airways has denied reports that there was a fire in the cockpit of one of its planes flying on Sunday from Johannesburg to Washington via Ghana, but said the plane had experienced “a technical problem” that forced it to return to Accra. “Contrary to reports on social media and other platforms, SAA would […]

A series of emails leaked to the press purporting to show President Cyril Ramaphosa knew who donors to his presidental campaign were, after he had said in Parliament he didn’t know, were nothing but a “calculated maneuver” and an “effort to undermine public confidence” in him, the ANC said in a statement today. The emails […]

At least 72 children were injured in South Africa on Tuesday morning, two of them critically, after the school bus they were travelling on overturned at Centocow, near Underberg. This has led to calls for safety inspections of all school transport services in KwaZulu-Natal. According to local reports, the injured children have been transported to […]

MAPUTO – After decades of conflict the leaders of Mozambique and the rebel movement Renamo will sign an accord today, and the ceremony in the capital will be attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his foreign minister. In 1992 the governing Frelimo party and Renamo signed a ceasefire after years of a bloody bush war, […]

Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has condemned the attack on law enforcement agencies in Johannesburg, describing it as an attack on the State, which cannot be accepted. “What happened [last] Thursday when law enforcement agencies were attacked with stones by street traders and hawkers, is not acceptable. Any attack on law enforcement agencies… cannot […]

A message to the American nation from its former president Barack Obama has gone viral on social media following the latest US shootings over the weekend, where 80 people were killed or wounded in two attacks. Some of what he said struck a chord with South Africans at home and living in the US. On […]

JOHANNESBURG – Nedbank called for more urgent government action to fix South Africa’s struggling economy on Tuesday after first-half earnings at its main domestic operations flatlined. More of Nedbank’s corporate and retail clients defaulted on their debts or swerved riskier investments due to a tough economic environment as unemployment rose to an 11-year high and […]

CAPE TOWN – South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from test cricket, but will be available for one-day international and Twenty20 cricket, he confirmed on Monday. Steyn, who has battled a recurring shoulder injury that kept him out of the recent World Cup in England, said he has made the decision […]

South African polo players took part in the second annual Lux Afrique Polo Day in Richmond, London on Saturday… to celebrate polo – the Sport of Kings – and African culture, alongside Kenyan and Nigerian players. “We like to think this is our African Ascot where you can come every year, wear your best outfits […]

Salary and bonus demands by senior managers at the already financially troubled Eskom could cost the utility R300 million, according to the Democatic Alliance, who said this was akin to holding the economy to ransom. The managers earn between R1.5 millon and R3 million a year, according to a statement released today by the DA, […]

A distraught Cape Town man, Paul Cremer, has issued an appeal for helping in finding his missing sister, Meghan Cremer (30) who was last seen on Saturday 3 August 2019. In a Facebook post he said: “She was last seen leaving her home in Ottery, Cape Town on 3 August around 6pm, driving her white […]

Cash strapped South African consumers will have to fork out more at the pumps as the petrol price is set to increase by 11 cents on Wednesday. South Africa‘s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe announced that a litre of 93 and 95 (ULP and LRP) will rise by 11 cents. The price […]

Two South Africans were among the world’s bravest few sports people to compete in and finish the epic and gruelling Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in Norway this weekend. It’s the most extreme triathlon on the face of the earth… Each year, passionate athletes enter the lottery to compete. But only a few (263 this year) are […]

From Gauteng to the Western Cape, land grabs have become part and parcel of South African life, threatening to leave once peaceful communities divided. While tensions flare up in Lenasia South between residents and alleged land invaders, Carte Blanche takes a look tonight at a divided community torn apart by fear and suspicion. Hundreds of […]

DAR ES SALAAM – A light plane crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans who had been involved in last month’s successful attempt to fly a home-built aircraft from Cape Town to Cairo, officials said. The crashed Sling plane, which entered Tanzanian airspace from Uganda en route to Malawi, made a distress […]

South African tennis player Raven Klaasen and his doubles partner, New Zealand’s Michael Venus, are through to the Finals of the Washington Open in the USA. The determined duo knocked out Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in two sets – 6-2, 7-6 – in the semi-finals at the ATP 500 tournament in Washington DC. It’s […]

South Africa’s Tourism Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, says she would like to reassure international tourists that it IS safe to travel to SA and that “their safety remains top priority for the South African government”. The Minister pointed out to international tourists that with regards to recent incidents (the brutal murder of a Ukrainian hiker in […]