Just a day after his 82nd birthday, South Africa’s legendary golf champion Gary Player was inducted into the PGA of America Hall of Fame, along with Renee Powell, Mickey Wright and Lew Worsham. PGA said the sportsmen are a foursome that “impacted American and global golf”. Player said he was honoured and that he’s “very […]

ENCA journalist Nickolaus Bauer has apologised “unreservedly and unequivocally” for his tweet on #BlackMonday which included two photographs, taken years ago, as if they had been taken on Monday 30 October 2017. The photos showed a couple wearing the apartheid-era South African flag, and the burning of the new flag. He acknowledged he had “misrepresented” […]

Here’s this week’s Carte Blanche line-up, available for South Africans in SA on Sunday and for expats from Tuesday if you subscribe to Showmax International… (watch trailer below). Western Cape Water Shortage Western Cape dam levels are at a 100-year low and Cape Town is set to run out of water very soon. Thousands of tourists […]

Controversial Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr has posted a video “SOS to the World” from South Africa. The singer says it is a short video in English for the eyes and ears of overseas viewers. Hofmeyr says: “I appeal now to our 800,000 expats … to relay this cry for help and to not forget us […]

The United States National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for South Florida and the Florida Keys, as the possibility of Irma making a “major impact” on Florida has increased. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered. The Category 5 storm (the highest level a storm can have) is hurtling towards the US mainland, […]

South Africans have today been sharing a six-year-old secretly taped video that reveals Bell Pottinger boasting about its access to the heart of the British Government (then Prime Minister David Cameron and his foreign secretary William Hague) and how it uses “dark arts” to bury bad coverage and influence public opinion. Those ‘dark arts’ were […]

Gwala appeared at #Ngwelezane court this morning. I was unable to attend as I have been receiving threats from a senior government official – and I am no good to anyone if he can yield the power to have me locked in jail up on trumped up charges… writes JAMIES JOSEPH, founder of Saving The […]

South Africans have always been fans of Rooibos and its benefits… and as expats have discovered, SA’s homegrown tea is becoming a firm favourite amongst healthy tea drinkers across the globe. And now a young schoolgirl has made some extraordinary findings that show Rooibos could help dogs too… Zaria Rule – a grade 7 learner […]

South African expat Patrick Othandwayo Sakayi has mastered the art of living abroad: embrace the locals and never forget your roots! He’s been welcomed by a wonderful community in a small village in Ireland, and in turn has taught them to sing ‘Shosholoza’ with gusto! Watch below… Speaking exclusively to SAPeople, Patrick said he left […]

American solo traveller, DANA ATKINSON, compiled a list of things she would miss as she sat at the Kruger National Park yesterday… contemplating her return home to Florida in the USA. Her list resonates not only with fellow visitors and tourists to South Africa, but also with South Africans themselves… paticularly expats who now live […]

Over the past 48 hours the outpouring of support for Detective JP van Zyl-Roux is something that will go down in history, according to JAMIE JOSEPH, from Saving the Wild. “I know this to be true, because we are just getting started, and the chapters ahead will forever change the narrative of the poaching crisis,” […]

Africa Check has been busy today, sorting fact from fiction, for those who may have been a little confused by some of the posts being shared about the #CapeStorm. Cape Town vlogger RyGuySA started a storm with his video of a tornado seen approaching Cape Town. “This is crazy! #CapeTown #capestorm #weatherforecast,” he wrote. See video […]

First, a photo of South African expat Theunis Wessels mowing his lawn in Canada went viral … now the jokes and memes about that unbelievable photo are going viral! The original (seen above) was taken by his wife Cecilia, and showed him casually mowing their yard in Alberta while what could only be called a moerse Tornado […]

Despite the stunning pictures of the storm over Cape Town on Monday night, the clouds brought only enough rainfall to fuel hope that winter rains are on their way, but not enough to soak the soil and fill the dams. With today – Wednesday 22 March 2017 – being World Water Day, photographer JON KERRIN […]

Another one of South African expat and comedian Kevin Fraser’s videos is going viral amongst fellow expats in Australia, and South Africans back home. This one is called When It Just Isn’t Your Day. It’s a rant many will relate to – anti-technology and when your iTunes playlist just won’t sync. With several voetseks thrown in, Kevin says […]

Eating insects is as old as mankind. Globally, 2 billion people consume insects, a practise known as entomophagy. It is more common in Africa than anywhere else in the world. The continent is home to the richest diversity of edible insects – more than 500 species ranging from caterpillars (Lepidoptera) to termites (Isoptera), locusts, grasshoppers, […]

A terminally ill 67-year-old man from Zimbabwe, Willem Erasmus, is apparently desperately searching for his long last twin sister; and has turned to social media and Southern African expats around the world to help him find her. In a post on Facebook, published on his behalf, Willem says “if you are a female born 12 […]

South African expat ELSA BROWNE, who lives in the UK, is one of the first people on the planet to have read Trevor Noah‘s book ‘Born a Crime’, which will only hit stores in mid-November. As most people get their first peek at the book’s contents this week, with the New York Times publishing an excerpt, […]

If we could be sure of one thing during our time as expats in Johannesburg, it was that no matter the time of year, there would always be at least one houseguest lodging with us. South Africa seemed to exert an inexorable pull all the way over the Atlantic and across the equator, luring everyone even remotely […]

Meet the brilliant, awesome and inspiring South African teacher behind that wonderful video of the Vietnamese school children singing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika: Rodwell Steinbridge Chigome from Cape Town. (Watch video at bottom of page.) Rodwell is in his final week of a five-year stint teaching in Vietnam, hence the singing of the South African anthem […]

South Africa’s corruption crisis is making world news, with expats as far away as Thailand being able to watch President Jacob Zuma’s entire speech (with subtitles for Thai) regarding the Nkandla #PayBackTheMoney issue. It’s come as a welcome break for Trevor Noah on The Daily Show – being able to talk about his own South African […]

South Africans in the UK can meet prominent businessman and DA 2016 mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, this Friday in London. When the former head of the Free Market Foundation announced his Joburg mayoral candidacy last month several expats in the UK asked “is he any good, is it worth coming back to SA […]

It was like a South African reunion in Las Vegas last weekend as SA expats from around the USA made the trek to support – and in some cases – meet their favourite team, the Springbok Sevens. And it’s sure to be the same this weekend as the Blitzbokke look to make an impact in Vancouver, […]

British actor Orlando Bloom has revealed that he’s not only a fan of South Africa’s steaks…but also of a lekker South African braai. The well-travelled actor was asked recently where in the world he had enjoyed his most memorable meal. His response was: “It’s impossible to name a particular restaurant but the steaks in South Africa are like […]

Christmas and New Year have come and gone and somehow we are staring down the barrel at the end of January 2016 with the month of February looming. As a South African expat it’s been great to see all the Facebook posts about all the little tots and kiddies heading back to their first day of […]