Charlize Theron has revealed in an interview with W Magazine that she has a bad temper which has sometimes got her into trouble… particularly at the start of her career when she hadn’t yet learned how to channel her energy. In the interview (watch below), Charlize says that during the famous catfight scene with Teri […]

The Department of Basic Education has welcomed the judgement handed down in the South Gauteng High Court that public schools cannot promote one religion. “This ruling is consistent with the department’s own policy informed by South African Schools Act and the Constitution that no one religion should be promoted above another,” the department said on […]

He went on record as saying he was going for something ‘ridiculous’ over the little-run 300-metre event on Wednesday night, and Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa’s golden boy of world athletics, made a world record victory look ridiculously easy. Competing at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting in Czech Republic, the Rio Olympics 400m gold medallist […]

The proud parents of a newborn baby in Stellenbosch, South Africa, say they are ‘feeling blessed’ after the safe birth of their baby following a terrible car crash last week. They are now desperately seeking the kind strangers who helped ensure that their little boy was safely delivered… Marissa and Eugene Neethling have each posted […]

Following the massive fires that ravaged the Knysna area earlier this month, Karen Rademeyer sent out urgent pleas for people in the area to look out for her five missing ponies. This last week, one of those ponies – Cody – followed his heart all the way home to her, 16 days later, along the […]

During the early hours of Tuesday morning two suspects, one of them a 22-year-old police constable, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in rhino poaching, according to the South African Police Services (SAPS). And fortunately – this time – they were arrested on their way to kill the rhino, or rhinos, rather than after the deed which happens so […]

A facebook post by a Free State mother and driver has gone viral, generating over 37,000 shares by outraged South Africans in less than 15 hours. Sharine Barnard alleges she was ordered to hand over her carkeys yesterday because her license had expired a week ago, and when she requested a ticket instead because she had three children […]

PRETORIA – Employment has decreased by 48 000 jobs to 9.644 million in the formal non-agricultural sector in the first quarter of 2017, compared with the previous quarter of 9.692 million in December 2016. Releasing the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the first quarter of 2017 in Pretoria on Tuesday, Statistician-General of South Africa, Dr Pali […]

The Democratic Alliance is calling for all information regarding the “obscene R1.6 billion discount that Gupta company, Tegeta, received from Eskom, in settlement of a substandard-coal dispute,” to be made public.   DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises, Natasha Mazzone, said this “secretive” settlement should not be hidden since there is public interest in the capture of […]

PRETORIA – The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 in a broiler breeder site in Mpumalanga. The department said the affected farm has been quarantined and culling of the affected animals has been completed. “The department is conducting forward and backward tracing to trace movement of all […]

The Australian Government proposes to change its current welfare system so that migrants – from South Africa and other countries around the world – will have to wait up to 15 years before they can have access to aged or disability pensions. Until now, a South African expat (and expats from other countries) became eligible […]

On a crisp, cloudless day, hundreds of Muslim families gathered at Three-Anchor Bay in Sea Point to break their fast and look out for the new moon. The sighting of the crescent would signify the end of Ramadan, the holy Islamic month in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. As the moon was not […]

Springbok captain Warren Whiteley has been withdrawn from the team to face France on Saturday because of a groin injury. Vice-captain, Eben Etzebeth, will now lead the Springboks in the third and final Castle Lager Incoming Series match at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg. Whiteley has been managed throughout the series for his groin strain […]

A massive swell hit J-Bay this morning. According to photographer ROBBIE IRLAM, only South Africa’s  legendary Big Wave Tour World Champion Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker and two others ventured out to try their luck in the surf… Here are photos and video captured by Robbie, and MAARTEN VAN DE VELDE… Photos by Robbie IrlamPhotography: Grant Twig Baker […]

Legendary Comrades runner, Bruce Fordyce, was attacked by armed robbers on Friday morning in Westcliff, Johannesburg, at around 05h30 during a 10km run. The attackers took off with his cheap plastic watch… a glove he was wearing, and his shoes! Bruce told local press that the thieves were welcome to his shoes since “they’d already […]

The notorious Ndlovo poaching gang are out again… this time on a paltry R5,000 ($384) bail. The previous release of the three men – who are prime suspects in 99 rhino poaching cases, dating back to 2009 – caused outrage last month when they were allow to walk, on just R15,000 bail. At the time, […]

South Africans, young and old, came together to celebrate International Yoga Day at the Lenasia Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The UN General Assembly, on 11 December 2014, adopted a resolution commemorating 21 June as the International Day of Yoga. The day is celebrated worldwide as a means to promote Yoga as well as exercise and […]

Princess Charlene of Monaco is alive and well… despite malicious rumours to the contrary, claiming that the former South African Olympic swimmer died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday. The rumour appears to have been started on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, claiming the 39-year-old had suddenly collapsed at the palace earlier that morning. It was […]

Sjoe, goosebumps. Remember the beautiful heartfelt-letter that made world headlines when Joost van der Westhuizen’s grieving son, Jordan, wrote a letter to his dad in heaven… including a request for Joost to ask God  to make Liverpool Football Club win? It turns out, that letter captured not only the hearts of rugby fans around the […]

The Constitutional Court has ruled today that the decision on whether to hold a secret ballot in Parliament, during a vote of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma, lies with the Speaker of the National Assembly. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng pointedly said that the Speaker herself, Baleka Mbete, has said she is not opposed to a […]

South African commercials director Sunu scooped some major awards, including Gold, at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Wednesday evening… for an Absolut campaign that celebrates the creative revolution taking place across Africa. Egg Films’ Sunu scooped Gold, two Silvers and Bronze in the Entertainment, Entertainment for Music and Media categories at the world’s most […]

Bishops College has paid a moving tribute on Wednesday in support of first XV Rugby Coach, Richard Smith, who has been hospitalised following a ‘home-invasion’ in Cape Town, South Africa. Bishops Rugby said on Tuesday: “On behalf of the Bishops Rugby community, we ask you to please keep our 1st XV Coach Richard Smith and […]

The cowardice and greed of rhino poachers continues to fall to lower and lower levels… as the Natal Lion Park reveals that an orphaned rhino, hand raised at the Park, has been killed and dehorned by poachers. The Natal Lion Park reported the sad news in a post on Facebook on Wednesday afternoon: “We are […]

The City of Cape Town has warned all water users not to increase consumption as dam levels remain critically low and rainfall uncertainty high. According to the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services, Xanthea Limberg, the dam storage levels are at 23.1%. “With the last 10% of a dam’s water […]

Kevin Pietersen has announced he will be quitting English cricket at the end of this summer to become more involved in wildlife conservation in South Africa. Kevin – who turns 37 next week – is reportedly building a new house near the Kruger National Park. “I reckon this will be my last season playing in […]