JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Monday that there is a significant downside risk to revenue collection due to a recession and problems in tax collection by the revenue service. “There is now additional downside risk to the tax revenue projected at the beginning of the year because of the […]

The African National Congress (ANC) say it rejects the South African Sunday Times’ story claiming former president, Jacob Zuma, and other top ANC officials have held secret meetings to topple President Cyril Ramaphosa. In a statement on Sunday, the ANC said that the story – titled “Exposed: Zuma plot to oust Cyril” – was “sensational […]

According to a report in South Africa’s Sunday Times today, former President Jacob Zuma and a handful of top ANC officials, are secretly plotting to topple President Cyril Ramaphosa. The ANC officials are named by the paper as including ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule, former North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo, ANC Women’s League Secretary-General Meokgo Matuba […]

Fabulous South African flowers and incredible exhibits are on display of this year’s Witness Garden Show in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Regular SAPeople contributor Lorraine Scholfield was there and captured these stunning photos… The Garden Show is open from 9am to 5pm daily, and ends tomorrow – Sunday 9 September 2018. Proteas First… Blushing bride proteas Pincushion […]

Tesla shares tumbled more than 6% to $263.24 on Friday after the electric car company’s CEO, South African expat Elon Musk, smoked marijuana on a webcast. (Watch below.) He also wielded a sword, and his company announced its recently-appointed accounting chief had resigned because of “discomfort” with the attention on Tesla, and the pace of […]

As predicted, more snow has fallen across parts of South Africa this week! Popular SAPeople contributor and Moving to the Platteland co-author, Julienne du Toit, captured these gorgeous photos in Richmond this morning… (See Updated photos at bottom of page.) Snow Report SA had predicted light snow on the southern high ground in the Northern Cape […]

A South African mom and grandmother took on armed hijackers in her drive-way and won! Watch below. The Alberton woman (42) told News 24 she was no hero and just did what she thought was best to protect her teenage daughter, who was a passenger in the car. The family has been receiving counselling, since […]

CAPE TOWN – South Africa’s plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation could hit property prices and trigger a banking crisis, the chief executive of Nedbank warned parliament on Friday. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Aug. 1 that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) planned to change the constitution […]

A South African expat living in the US recently discovered she was a sperm donor child. She is now on a mission to find the former Wits Medical School student who donated his sperm. Another South African expat, a medical practitioner living in the UK, was once a sperm donor from Wits. Below they each speak […]

Burt Reynolds, whose good looks and charm made him one of Hollywood’s most popular actors as he starred in films such as “Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard” and “Smokey and the Bandit” in the 1970s and ’80s, has died at age 82. Reynolds died on Thursday morning at the Jupiter Medical Center in Florida, his manager, […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised a new investigation into a water ministry contract with German software firm SAP on Thursday, citing allegations that public money was spent unlawfully. The investigation by South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) comes after the country’s anti-graft agency said in March it was conducting its own […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s slide into recession is a “transitional issue” from which the economy will soon recover, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in comments published on Thursday, repeating promises for a stimulus package to reignite growth. Ramaphosa has staked his reputation on reviving the economy after a decade of stagnation under his predecessor, scandal-plagued […]

South African National Police Commissioner, General John Sitole, has commended the swift arrest of four alleged cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers during a joint intelligence operation on the N1, just outside Sasolburg, Gauteng. On Monday, a group of armed men attacked an armoured cash-in-transit vehicle in the Ngaleni area of Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. […]

The Johannesburg Zoo has announced the sad passing of Kinkel, a popular 35-year-old male elephant who died on Tuesday morning. The Zoo said it is in mourning for the legendary elephant which was born in the wild, but due to an injury from poachers landed up living in the zoo because he couldn’t be returned […]

JOHANNESBURG – The City of Joburg is heartbroken today as the death toll in the fire at the Department of Health has risen to three firefighters. The brave firemen paid the ultimate sacrifice, losing their lives while trying to rescue others and extinguish a fire which broke out on the 23rd floor of the Bank […]

SASOLBURG, South Africa (Reuters) – About 100 workers from South Africa’s mainly white Solidarity union staged a brief protest outside Sasol’s chemicals plant in Sasolburg on Wednesday over a share scheme offered exclusively to black staff. Solidarity union leaders, who say the scheme is discriminatory because it excludes white workers, handed over a memorandum criticising […]

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Steinhoff’s former chief executive Markus Jooste told a parliamentary inquiry today that his main mistake during his tenure, as the retailer battled an accounting scandal, was agreeing to a joint venture with Austrian businessman Andreas Seifert. Rather than take any responsibility for the global furniture company’s share price collapse himself, Jooste […]

A Gauteng firefighter, trying to rescue others, has tragically died after slipping off the balcony of the 23rd floor of a burning building in Johannesburg, South Africa. City of Joburg EMS (Emergency Medical Services) tweeted: “Sadly one of our own has fell from the building and has since passed on.” Earlier incorrect reports in local […]

The African National Congress says the latest figures from Statistics SA represent an urgent call to action for all South Africans to rally behind a common vision of growing the economy and job creation. The figures show that the South African economy moved back into a technical recession with a negative growth rate of (-0.7%) […]

The Botswana government has issued a statement refuting local and international reports of an alleged elephant poaching massacre that has resulted in the carcasses of 87 slain elephants being found near the Okavango Delta wildlife sanctuary. The 87 carcasses have been counted by Elephants Without Borders (EWB), a conservation nonprofit organisation that has been contracted […]

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Tuesday revealed the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures fell by 0,7% in the second quarter of the year 2018… and, judging from the comments on Twitter, South Africans realised they can no longer blame former President Jacob Zuma. These latest figures have pushed the country into a recession – […]

The ANC says it welcomes the withdrawal of the Expropriation Bill by the South African National Assembly today. Section 25 of the Constitution is currently being reviewed by Parliament… which is expected to add clarity to the controversial issue of land expropriation without compensation. ANC Chief Whip, Jackson Mthembu, pointed out that the withdrawal of […]

Today many South Africans – including the Democratic Alliance (DA) – rushed to convey their condolences to Miguel Louw’s family, as the decomposed body of a child was found in Phoenix yesterday near to where he went missing. However, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has asked the public not to jump to the conclusion […]

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Two South African peacekeepers were wounded in a rebel ambush near the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their U.N. mission said on Tuesday. The attack on Monday, on the outskirts of the city of Beni, underscored the challenges authorities face in tackling […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights as Typhoon Jebi sliced across the west on Tuesday, cutting power, overturning cars and killing at least six people. Jebi, or “swallow” in Korean, was briefly a super typhoon and is the most powerful storm to hit […]