Supporters of the Khoisan 4, who are camping at the Union Buildings and holding a Hunger Strike, are calling on South Africans everywhere to please help the protesting men get what they need, so they can get home for Christmas. This is Day 15 of their Hunger Strike, and their health is deteriorating rapidly. The […]

It is summer time in the southern hemisphere and locals and tourists are flocking to the coast to enjoy the sunshine, salt air and some of the best beaches this part of the world has to offer. In southern Africa it’s also the time when great white sharks migrate closer to Cape Town’s shore to […]

Mama Rosie describes her job as a “calling”, not a job. She says her purpose in working is not  to earn money. “God has called me to do this,” she says… and her reward is the “smile of these children when they’re saying Mama to me, and thank you”. ‘These children’ include over 5,000 who […]

Afriforum says the ANC’s decision to amend the Constitution to allow for expropriation of land in South Africa without compensation puts South Africa on a road to conflict and is nothing more than a plan to “steal property”, putting South Africa on the Zimbabwe route. The civil rights organisation threatened that it will “not sit back” […]

President Jacob Zuma has congratulated the new President of the African National Congress, Comrade President Cyril Ramaphosa and his leadership collective, the National Executive Committee and Officials  as elected by the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Nasrec, Johannesburg. “I wish to heartily congratulate Comrade President Cyril Ramaphosa for his election […]

Newly elected ANC leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, delivered the following speech on Wednesday evening, 20 December 2017, to close the ANC National Conference: This is a deeply humbling moment, to address the closing session of the 54th National Conference of our beloved and glorious movement, the African National Congress. There is no doubt that this has […]

South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has a new president – Cyril Ramaphosa. But who is he? Ramaphosa cuts a fitting figure to take over government, stabilise the economy, and secure the constitutional architecture that he helped create at the end of apartheid. But to expect more would be expecting too much. […]

As Cape Town’s Day Zero has been brought forward to 29 April 2018, South Africans in Joburg have kindly sent litres of water down to their compatriots in the Western Cape. 10 Litres of Kindness is the brainchild of Shaun and Vikki Lee Harry who are originally from Cape Town themselves. The couple, who’ve been […]

The Democratic Alliance has called for Mzwandile Masina to resign and give Ekurhuleni a new beginning. The DA said that although he is now denying it, he was reported by News24 last month to have said that he “can never serve under Cyril” and “I will leave”. As a staunch Zuma supporter and vocal campaigner […]

Christmas has come early for South African supermodel, Candice Swanepoel, who announced this week that she and Brazilian fiancé Hermann Nicoli are expecting their second child. The South African expat, who is based in New York, was reportedly already two months pregnant – just not showing – when she took to the Shanghai, China, runway […]

The top thought on most South Africans’ minds seems to be that new ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa must recall Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa. Calls for a recall have come from opposition leaders through to the general public sharing jokes on social media (most of the same image of Ramaphosa and Zuma, with […]

Drought, protests, anger over the social grants payment system, and the collapse of Metrorail marked this year in South Africa. A man walks through Marikana in Philippi East, on 14 February 2017. A high-profile court case eventually resulted in the City of Cape Town being ordered to buy the land on which Marikana is located. […]

Rumours that President Jacob Zuma has instructed the South African National Defence Force to draw up plans for implementing a state of emergency may or may not be true. Nonetheless they are evidence of South Africa’s febrile political atmosphere. But any assumption that the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the new leader of the African […]

Watch below as President Jacob Zuma hears that his Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has won the ANC leadership race, and will replace him as ANC President instead of Zuma’s ex-wife Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. If a picture tells a thousand words, a video says even more… #ANC54 The Moment #Zuma hears #Ramaphosa is the new president […]

Team South Africa Roller Derby is heading to the Roller Derby World Cup in Manchester, in the UK, in February, and really needs our help to get there. Their fundraiser on Thundafund ends today – there are some really cool rewards and super cool advertising deals for potential sponsors. Here’s everything you never knew about […]

The value of the Rand has risen all day as the chance of Cyril Ramaphosa becoming the new ANC leader became apparent… and as the news was confirmed Monday evening that Ramaphosa is the leading party’s new President, the Rand stood at R12.73 to the US dollar, and R17.10 to the British pound. People around […]

South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected the new ANC President. This means that should the ANC win the next national elections, Ramaphosa will be the country’s president. The value of the Rand already began rising this morning as Ramaphosa was slightly in the lead… In the final tally, Ramaphosa received 2440 votes, […]

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The hope was that in opening the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma would rise to the occasion, seize the moment of his last address as party president with honesty and leave something worthy of history. For posterity to cherish. It sounded as though he was taking […]

There were many haunting and heroic moments this year, all deepening my understanding of these experiences and propelling me to further pursue my quest for expressing our truth in an unseen world… writes Western Cape photographer JUSTIN SULLIVAN. Witnessing bravery in the path of destruction and experiencing the suffering of others, through all the heartache and […]

The jokes have already started on social media as South Africa waits to hear who will be the next leader of the ANC: President Jacob Zuma’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa or his ex-wife Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma The 54th ANC National Elective Conference has been packed as 4,776 ANC delegates gathered to vote for the top six […]

The South African Revenue Service will collect the Sugary Beverages Levy (SBL) from 1 April 2018. The levy is fixed at 2.1 cents per gram of the sugar content that exceeds four grams per 100ml, which means the first four grams per 100ml are levy free. SARS on Friday said the levy falls under the […]

The 54th ANC National Elective Conference is packed as 4,776 ANC delegates gather to vote for the top six leadership positions, including new party President… which is a close race between President Jacob Zuma’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ex-wife Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. So far Ramaphosa leads with 1,469 branch votes from across six […]

Few in Cape Town have done more to introduce foodies, chefs, distillers, brewers and tourists to wild food, particularly fynbos – the vast category of indigenous plant life that covers the Cape’s mountains – than forager/cook Roushanna Gray, whose interactive workshops fall under the name Veld and Sea. Roushanna makes foraged food look sexy, with dishes like edible […]

Watch South African YouTube vlogger, Josh Pieters (who has over 800,000 subscribers), test two well known British vloggers on their ability to pronounce and understand South African words. To be fair to the boys, there’s a chance not all South Africans themselves could translate some of the words, which come from four of the country’s […]