The accused men in South Africa’s notorious #CoffinAssault (Coffin Assault) case – Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen – have been found guilty of attempted murder. The case rocked South Africa and caused racial tensions when a video that the white men had filmed of themselves, on a farm in Mpumalanga, showed them forcing a black […]

South African afro-pop musician Vusi Nova has been successfully found, after being hijacked early Friday morning – betwen 04h30 and 05h00 – outside his home in Melville, Johannesburg. After anxious calls in Gauteng to look out for the kidnapped artist, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa confirmed he is safe, tweeting: “We’re relieved to hear […]

South Africa’s world long jump champion Luvo Manyonga and 800m champion Caster Semenya ended their seasons unbeaten, with two sparkling performances at the Weltklasse meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday night. Manyonga won the long jump with a leap of 8.49 metres on his fourth jump, one centimetre further than his world championships winning distance […]

Cape Town’s talented sand artist Michael Myekwa (33) will be back on Fish Hoek beach, South Africa, tomorrow morning, thanks to the support of the local community – particularly a fellow artist – who have rallied together to ensure Michael obtains the all-important permit allowing him to do so… The community had been devastated when […]

South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), says it has received confirmation that their complaint against Bell Pottinger has been upheld, and that the ruling will most likely be on 4 September. This means that the UK’s trade PR trade body – PRCA (Public Relations & Communications Association) – agrees that “Bell Pottinger did […]

Tributes have poured in from around the world for anti-poaching activist and “silent hero” Wayne Lotter, the 51-year-old South African who was fatally shot last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Wayne was travelling by taxi, late at night on 16 August, from the airport to his hotel on the African city’s Msasani Peninsula when […]

The NSRI Simon’s Town sea rescue crew successfully disentangled a Southern Right whale that had become entangled in rope off-shore of Clovelly, between Kalk Bay and Fish Hoek, on Tuesday evening. Photographer ROB TARR was there to capture the action… “I scooted around there this evening and managed to find parking among the gazillion onlookers! […]

A reward of R5,000 is being offered for any information which might lead to the identification and arrest of a suspect who has been captured on a video – currently circulating on social media – which shows a man cruelly beating up a dog and throwing it mercilessly against a hard rock surface. Much of […]

SAPeople co-founder, and former South African expat, Amanda Stergianos, has launched one of SA’s first websites to provide an online marketplace for the multitude of amazing small businesses around the country. Every business on The Vendory has a story about real people and why they do what they do. This is The Vendory’s story…   […]

The family and friends of 13-year-old Anchen Muller from Cape Town, South Africa, are frantically searching for the teenager who went missing on Friday night. UPDATE Wednesday 23 August 2017: Anchen was found Tuesday night and is safe and unharmed. Her aunt, Mariette Dalton, has posted the following message asking for help: “URGENT!!! My sister’s […]

Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is accused of assaulting a young woman while on a visit to South Africa. A week after the incident in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg’s upmarket central business district, a South African government minister announced that she had been granted diplomatic immunity. She has subsequently […]

The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana, has resigned and apologised to South Africans, particularly women, following the recent incident of assault he was in involved in, in which he beat up a woman at a club in Gauteng, which is before the court. The former Deputy Minister handed his resignation and […]

A beautiful new short film for iconic South African salt brand Cerebos has been featured on the top advertising sites around the world including Shots and Adforum, and was named World’s Best Ad of the Day by the prestigious AdWeek. SAPeople followers, Lyndall Vanderyacht told SAPeople: “My brother from Durban just made this beautiful Cerebos […]

Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State in South Africa until a year ago, has written a book on the country’s higher education sector. As by Fire – The End of the South African University is one of a number of recent books that set out to make sense of the current […]

South Africans can look forward to entering most national parks for free when SA National Parks (SANParks) launches its annual week on 17 September 2017. Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa will officially launch the week at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park (GGHNP) in the eastern Free State (see pic above). Since its inception in […]

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum and Advocate Gerrie Nel, Head of the organisation’s Private Prosecuting Unit, today announced at a media conference that they would support Gabriella Engels to “see that justice prevails” in the assault charge that Engels has brought against Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe. The support entails, amongst other things, that Adv. […]

CCTV footage has emerged of a woman fleeing a petrol station a week ago in the early hours of the morning… dragging the entire petrol pump behind her car. According to the Southern Courier the incident took place on Thursday 10 August in the South of Johannesburg at Vuyo’s garage on Main Street. The owner […]

As predicted by Weather SA a cold front has hit South Africa bringing snowfalls to several parts of the country. Rob Ansell from Snow Report SA, reported this morning from near Black Mountain that there has been persistent snow since about 07h45, and it’s expected to continue with 30-40cm predicted within the next 24 hours. […]

Watch how three South African motorists seamlessly worked together, to bravely prevent another driver – who had (badly) hit another vehicle, flipping it over – from fleeing the scene. The video – from a dashcam – was uploaded on Wednesday by Yusuf Abramjee who said it happened on the N1 to Pretoria, near Centurion. He […]

JOHANNESBURG – Despite claims from sources in Zimbabwe yesterday that the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe had returned to Zimbabwe… the South African Ministry of Police has Wednesday issued a statement confirming that she actually is still in South Africa. According to the statement, the ‘suspect’ was due to hand herself in yesterday but kept changing […]

Former American President Barack Obama’s tweets quoting former South African President and prisoner, Nelson Mandela, have become the most liked tweets in history. The tweets followed the Charlottesville tragedy in Virginia, USA, on Saturday when one woman was killed and about a dozen people injured after a man drove deliberately into an anti-racist crowd that […]

BLOEMFONTEIN – A 13-year-old girl in South Africa has testified via CCTV that she was repeatedly raped by various men while her mother watched and scolded her. She stated that her mother and father would pray to the devil afterwards and their eyes would go “black”. Whilst giving the testimony, her father (44) and mother […]

The father of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer, who was killed on Saturday, says he has forgiven the man who allegedly drove deliberately into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, mowing down Heyer’s daughter… and calls on people everywhere to change their hearts and forgive each other. Mark Heyer said: “People need to stop hating, and they need […]

Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has returned to Zimbabwe according to an Aljazeera report… following her alleged assault of a 20-year-old South African woman at a hotel in Sandton on Sunday. There was conflicting information on Tuesday afternoon with some media in South Africa reporting that Mugabe had handed herself in and was in court… […]

A school teacher was shot and fatally wounded in front of schoolchildren in Bushbuckridge, South Africa on Monday. Kate Chiloane was fleeing from her husband, following an argument, at Sedibasathuto Primary School when he shot her twice in front of learners. He later committed suicide at home. The gun used for the shootings belonged to […]