Twelve British tourists – including two children – were allegedly traumatised after being robbed in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on their way to Swaziland, on Thursday night. Update April 2020: British model Katie Price confirms she was attacked in carjacking incident in South Africa. According to the SABC three of the people were badly injured and […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa was spotted on board a flight this morning… happily smiling in economy class. Johannesburg resident Mlimandlela Ndamase posted the photo on Twitter on Good Friday. Ndamase tweeted that if President Ramaphosa could fly SafAir then the next time a client demands business class, you just need to “tell them you’re flying […]

Unknown to many, there is the most beautiful area to explore in KwaZulu-Natal from the East Coast, around Durban, and up to Hilton… but thanks to the efforts of  former South African expat, Cheryl LefevreMaid, who has returned for a while to the land she loves, more people will soon be enjoying this gorgeous region. Cheryl […]

Mmusi Maimane, Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), claims the EFF, ANC and UDM coalition have deliberately resorted to “disrupting and attempting to collapse” the Council meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay today… and says this is because “they know they will not win” the Motion of No Confidence against Mayor Athol Trollip. The Council meeting […]

Civil rights watchdog AfriForum has given Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence, 90 days to provide reasons for not acting against Maj. M.V. Mohlala of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) Signal Formation at the Wonderboom Military Base in Pretoria. According to AfriForum, Mohlala published statements are “exceptionally offensive, racist and harmful, and fall […]

Steve Smith is the recently sacked captain of the world champion Australian cricket team… writes Alan Knott-Craig.  He’s also the top ranked Test batsman in the world. Smith was fired after admitting to asking one of his players, Cameron Bancroft, to tamper with the ball, which is tantamount to cheating. World reaction to his behaviour has been scathing. […]

Former real estate agent Vicki Momberg has been sentenced to a three-year imprisonment in South Africa, following her conviction on four counts of crimen injuria for racist remarks made towards a black police officer. Momberg was captured on video shouting racial insults and slurs at the police officer who was assisting her after she herself […]

The wife of a carjacking victim in Gauteng has praised the act of kindness and heroism displayed by off-duty South African policeman, Captain Maqabe, and credits him for her children still having a father. She said Maqabe will remain a hero forever for her, her husband and her children. “My two boys still have their […]

A Cape Town mother and her daughter were held hostage by ostriches in the Eastern Cape on Sunday! Amanda Stergianos told SAPeople: “I travelled up to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape to visit my daughter who is a boarder there. “We decided to stay in accommodation on an estate called Fort Beaufort, 20 minutes from […]

“How do you get Australians to punt our South African beer? Simple. You go to Newlands and ask them.” That’s the premise of a new ad for Newlands Spring Beer. The catch of course is that the advertisers went to Newlands in Western Australia, where the Aussie tasters presumed they were drinking good ol’ Aussie brew… […]

The beautiful coastal town of Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa, has been hit by illegal land invasions, property destruction and xenophobic attacks, which started yesterday and are currently ongoing in Zwelihle and the industrial area of the town. See photos and videos below. So far there has been destruction at a public library, police […]

Showing humour in the face of adversity isn’t restricted to South Africans, check out this hilarious video by Australia’s TripleJ radio station – ‘We Cheat at Cricket’. The video by Ben and Liam makes fun of the Land Down Under’s national cricket team, which were caught cheating – tampering with the ball – during a […]

The coastal city of Port Elizabeth is already famous as South Africa’s Friendly City… but there’s one special guy who’s adding an extra smile to everyone’s day – a singer called Wessel who busks along the beachfront. Last Sunday he was filmed singing Lionel Richie’s ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’, and this weekend the video was […]

In his latest update to fans on the investigation into ball-tampering in Cape Town, Cricket Australia’s CEO James Sutherland has sent a personal email informing them that the organisation’s Head of Integrity will arrive in South Africa shortly, and that he himself will travel to SA this evening, arriving Tuesday morning local time. Sutherland said […]

Congratulations to South Africa’s Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky – and Andy Watts – for winning two major awards at the prestigious World Whiskies Awards in London! At a gala dinner at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel on 22 March 2018, Bain’s was awarded 2018 World’s Best Grain Whisky… and the company’s Founder Distiller, Andy Watts, was […]

Morne Morkel came agonisingly close to his first ever 10-wicket haul as he spearheaded the Proteas to their second successive four-day victory over Australia at Newlands on Sunday, giving South Africa a 2-1 lead in what’s been a rather controversial Test series so far. He took 5/23, including two wickets off successive balls, to go […]

Just like South Africans, when the going gets tough – Australians turn to humour. After the cheating incident at the Australia vs South Africa cricket match at Newlands in Cape Town yesterday, the jokes have come flying in faster than an Aussie cricket ball that’s been tampered with! https://www.facebook.com/uncensoredSA/posts/707915292665551 Jokes aside, Australians have come down […]

Australian cricketers Cameron Bancroft and Captain Steve Smith faced the press at Newlands in South Africa to discuss – and admit – to ball tampering during the third Test against the Proteas on Saturday 24 March 2018. There was no ways they could deny it! Watch this: https://twitter.com/nealcol/status/977572331500556288 Now watch below as the Australian sportsmen […]

American Oscar-winner and singer Jennifer Hudson delivered an emotionally-charged rendition of Bob Dylan‘s “The Times They Are A-Changing” at an anti-gun violence march in Washington DC on Saturday. Her performance, with a church choir, was made all the more powerful by her tragic personal connection with gun violence – in 2008, Jennifer lost her mother, […]

American vlogger Joel Patrick has responded to the backlash against his anti-racism video about South Africa. (Watch below.) On 15 March, Joel posted a video about South Africa in which he says racism from any side is wrong and calls out the black community for being silent on what has been happening. While South Africa […]

The African National Congress (ANC) has welcomed the decision by Moody’s Investor Research Services to confirm South Africa’s credit rating at investment grade and to change SA’s outlook from negative to stable. “This decision affirms the work of the ANC-led government, together with our social partners, to implement measures aimed at recovery of the South […]

Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) are currently recruiting firefighters, drivers, event managers, fund raisers and critical support personnel… so if you always read the headlines about fires in the Western Cape of South Africa, and wish you could be part of the solution, now’s your chance. Western Cape photographer, Justin Sullivan, who has been in the […]

Former Zimbabwe First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is allegedly under investigation for running an ivory poaching syndicate, which also smuggled gold and diamonds out of Zimbabwe, according to the UK’s Telegraph. In an exclusive interview with Australian photo-journalist Adrian Steirn (whom many will remember for his incredible series of photos of the Pangolin Men, and of […]

The head of the Gauteng Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC), Dr Elias Sithole, says the PDMC remains on high alert amid the heavy downpours. Johannesburg and Pretoria experienced heavy rains that resulted in trees falling, homes becoming submerged, cemetry headstones collapsing and a car being ‘swallowed’ by a large sinkhole in front of the dump […]

After two more farm attacks, including one murder, in the past 48 hours in South Africa, DA Limpopo Provincial Leader Jacques Smalle will write to the Provincial Police Commissioner, Luitenant General Nneke Ledwaba, reiterating the opposition party’s repeated call to capacitate rural safety within the South African Police Service (SAPS) with adequate manpower and resources. “This […]