Warm wishes have poured in for radio broadcaster Darren Scott’s quick and full recovery after he undergoes an operation this morning to remove melanoma cancer from his lungs. The popular South African personality confirmed on facebook yesterday that the cancer had returned, joking that “the fact that this is the 4th time melanoma has come-a-visiting MUST now […]

On Sunday, September 13, Pope Francis will beatify the first South African ever – a schoolteacher who was beaten to death in 1990 by villagers after he refused to pay a sorcerer who promised to end storms battering the region. Benedict ‘Tshimangadzo’ Daswa was stoned by his attackers and ran to a bar to find safety…but he […]

Updated 18 December 2016: Search engine giant Google has honoured anti-apartheid hero Bantu Stephen Biko with a Google Doodle today, on what would have been his 70th birthday. (Update 12 September 2017: Remembering Steve Biko on the 40th Anniversary of his death.) The activist was born on 18 December 1946 and died 39 years ago, on 12 […]

Latest South African comedy ‘Stone Cold Jane Austen’, which opens in SA movie theaters tomorrow, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France this week. It’s a brilliant mockumentary about an English rock band from South Africa trying to break into the increasing profitable Afrikaans music market…without being able to speak the […]

South Africans are everywhere…even in the deepest forests of the Amazon! We caught up with Michael Langford, a Capetonian who is currently living in Cusco, Peru where he promotes responsible travel to the nearby Peruvian Amazon. Here he shares some of his stunning photos from a recent rainforest trip (a 30-minute flight from where he […]

Cape Town comedy duo Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues have a ‘kiff’ new video called Payday, being billed as “their most ridiculous song yet”….and with lyrics like “when I get my paycheck, it’s like my life’s begun, When you have no paycheck it’s like you’re having no fun” – everyone can relate! Here the guys […]

While some of us wait to get nominated to do a good deed (like a #raknomination), there’s a 17-year-old teenager in Cape Town who’s doing everything she can, on a shoestring budget, to raise the confidence of kids in Joe Slovo/Phoenix and help them and herself follow their dreams. Kimite Cancino lives in Milnerton with […]

British director and Cannes and Venice film festival favorite Peter Greenaway has started lensing one of his most anticipated projects in Guanajuato, Mexico. The biopic of film director Sergei Eisenstein titled ‘Eisenstein In Guanajuato’.  The film stars former Capetonian resident and South African born and raised (for twenty years), Stelio Savante. Savante is best known […]

South African jazz musician Julius Schultz talks exclusively to SAPeople about the power of a supportive wife, chicken curry and the value of being colour blind. The Johannesburg-born guitarist, and father of two, who already has three albums under his belt…has recently released his latest offering…’COLOUR BLIND’. 1. When did you learn to play guitar? […]

Teenage ballet dancer Michaela DePrince survived a brutal civil war, adapted to a new life in a faraway country, and overcame numerous challenges to excel in a white-dominated art form. Today she’s regarded as one of the US’s most promising young artists. DePrince is African by birth, born in the West African country of Sierra […]

Engineering whizzkid Siyabulela Lethuxolo Xuza is a young man with a big future. From the early days of experimenting with science in his mother’s kitchen in the poor community of Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, to international science and engineering accolades, he is now a role model for South Africa’s aspiring scientists. These days the […]

The African Union (AU) has honoured a South African scientist with the prestigious international Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award. The high-level accolade recognises Prof Maryke Labuschagne’s contribution to science in Africa. Labuschagne, a plant breeding scientist at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, received the award in the life sciences category at continental level – the […]

Voetsek! 2012 – Do Your Bit To Help Man’s Best Friend The 3rd annual Voetsek! Music Festival is set to take place on Saturday the 17th of March at The Bohemian in Richmond. Doors open at 17h00 with the first band starting at 18h00. Admission is R70.00. There is a discount rate based on items […]

A non-profit organisation is gathering momentum in its opposition to plans by gas companies to push ‘fracking’ into South Africa, particularly the Karoo, and is calling on as many South Africans as possible to join and support their cause.  The organisation is the Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) and was created, mainly by volunteers, in […]

Anita Zenani, 13, from Khayelitsha township in the Western Cape, will represent South Africa at the World BMX Championships in Denmark from 27 to 31 July 2011. The petite teenager has been cycling for just over two years, but has already made her mark in the sport. At the 2010 world championships, held in Pietermaritzburg in […]

Caroline Rowland, a Rhodes University journalism graduate, has helped the South Korean city of Pyeongchang win the bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, with her evocative visuals of the alpine resort. The Welkom, Free State-born producer showcased the city’s hosting ability in the films New Horizons; Best of Both Worlds and Heroes, which eventually saw it overcome competition from […]

The University of the Free State awarded an honorary doctorate to Oprah Winfrey on Friday 24th June 2011, so now South Africa’s favourite private school owner can also be called Dr Oprah Winfrey! Oprah received the university’s 152nd honorary doctorate and was delighted when told by John Samuel “Ms Winfrey, you are now a Kovsie”, […]

05 May 2011   A water project supported by the UN-African Union peacekeeping force (Unamid) in eight villages of North Darfur will not only facilitate residents’ access to water, but will also help to reduce sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the region, local residents and Unamid officials said. “For years we have been afraid […]

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Reg Bamford’s website 1st Contact is one of those must-use sites for any South African on  a working holiday to the UK. Here, the 42-year-old entrepreneur – who happens to have walked to the North Pole – discusses life, lessons and the positive attitude that enabled him to build a successful company overseas. 1. You […]