A devastated farm manager has filmed a heartbreaking video in his vehicle, calling on his friends to share a message urging all South Africans to wear black on Monday 30 October 2017… to mourn all the farmers who have died so far this year, including his friend Joubert Conradie (seen in the pic below) who […]

When a power outage suddenly hit a Christian School in South Africa, there were no complaints. Instead they burst into song, and turned what could’ve been a negative experience into a beautiful rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’. Watch the goosebump moment as the school sings… while thunder can be heard outside and lightning flashes can be […]

Check out the trailer for Hollywood movie star Ethan Hawke’s latest movie – ’24 Hours to Live’ – filmed in South Africa. The action-packed movie is a fast-paced thriller about a career assassin (Hawke) who is given a chance at redemption after his employer temporarily brings him back to life… after being killed on the […]

The world famous Namaqualand daisies draw thousands of tourists every year, but they are under threat from phosphate mines in the area… Elandsfontein Phosphate Mine In 2016 current affairs programme Carte Blanche showed how the controversial Elandsfontein Phosphate Mine was granted a mining license, even though the Department of Mineral Resources had rejected the application […]

South Africans have been sharing an American video that’s gone viral and attracted the attention of international celebrities like talk show hosts James Corden and Ellen de Generes, and actor Ashton Kuchter. The video depicts the ‘privilege walk’, a technique used around the world to teach students and others about the advantages some of us […]

Watch this adorable female southern white rhinoceros calf run in slow motion. The calf was born on 5 October, out in the pasture at The Wilds in Ohio, USA, and is the second fifth-generation white rhino born outside of Africa, according to The Wilds. Both were born at The Wilds. Dan Beetem, Director of Animal Management, […]

Former BBC reporter Lisa Ashton travelled to South Africa for the first time in 2004 to make a documentary. She never realised it was going to change her life forever… and help her change the lives of so many impoverished South Africans. Lisa was inspired, whilst making the doc, by an amazing woman with an […]

You may have seen the viral video of a cool Granny dancing in the back of a car earlier this week… but you may not have realised she’s a South African granny. A very cool granny… from Vryheid. According to HeraldLIVE, the video features 77-year-old Maureen Craig getting her groove on for ‘Gobisiqolo’ by Bhizer, […]

South African photojournalist Brent Stirton has scooped the grand title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 for a photo he captured of a de-horned black rhino, after a poaching kill, in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. The image – Memorial to a Species – was chosen by an international panel of judges as the winning picture from […]

Check out this short film of Johannesburg cyclist, Wandile Msomi, “playfully engaging with the streets of Jozi” on his daily commute through the sprawling city. The film was premiered on Thursday evening by Hunter Cycling shop, in conjunction with the Jozi Hustle. It’s called ‘Pls Do Not Count This’… which are the words scrawled on […]

Here’s a compilation video to remind us all what beauty there lies within our borders. Matt Menton edited the video which includes footage of South Africa from well known photographers like Kierran Allen. Matt says: “I hope you enjoy this cinematic montage of my beautiful country!!! “The purpose of this video is to show you […]

Finding love isn’t as simple as planting corn, caring for cattle or keeping horses – and it’s this massive challenge that has got people hooked on Boer Soek ’n Vrou, kykNET’s hit reality series. Watch now » In the tenth season, Minki van der Westhuizen returns to help 10 farmers find lasting love. The season […]

DURBAN – Sibusiso Matrick Mbhele, the Durban hero who captured the hearts of South Africans, has been reunited with the stranger he saved during the horrific Durban storm on Tuesday 10 October 2017, which claimed at least eight people’s lives. A photo of the Time Freight driver bravely wading through the flooded N2, bare-chested and wearing […]

Tourists in the Kruger National Park found themselves having to change a tyre with lions in the vicinity, after one of the lions bit their tyre… Apart from the fright the lions gets, the South African family’s conversation is just as entertaining! Watch Lion Bites Tyre in Kruger Park   According to LatestSightings, which uploaded […]

Watch this beautiful rendition of South Africa’s national anthem – Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – as sung by a group of SA expats in New York this weekend. Durban born, Joburg-bred singer, songwriter and former junior radio producer at Hot 919 FM, Lyla Illing – who can be seen in the video, on the guitar – […]

Not even the rain could dampen the festivity at Seaforth Beach, Cape Town, yesterday as a group of penguins was released by SANCCOB. Photos by Nigel Riley. SANCCOB (the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) released 13 African penguins – 4 adults and 9 blues – in front of an enthusiastic crowd […]

A distressing video that was posted on Saturday, and is going viral, appears to show security staff at a Shoprite outlet behaving badly and pulling a tearful little girl as her mom is handcuffed… however the security personnel in the video are NOT from Shoprite. (Watch video below.) The video has created a backlash against […]

For the fourth consecutive year, South Africa is taking part in the (truly) Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions… to raise awareness for our endangered iconic wildlife, writes Megan Carr, VP Social Media, GMFER. The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos (GMFER) is an entirely volunteer based, grassroots activist US-registered non-profit organisation. The theme […]

Tour guide and regular SAPeople contributor Lloyd Koppel was “hanging out” on his balcony in Walker Bay, De Kelders (Western Cape, South Africa) yesterday with some guests, when a beautiful sight unfolded in front of them… watch below. “Beautiful moments. There was a lob-tailing Southern Right Whale in front of the house. This went on for over […]

KwaZulu-Natal resident Cristelle Barnes is still desperately seeking a woman who was driving a white car, which was involved in an accident last week in Durban, South Africa. Christelle posted a message to Facebook on 28 September asking friends to share her “CRY FOR HELP” in the hope it would reach the lady. She wrote: […]

While South African President Jacob Zuma has extended his condolences to the government and people of the United States, following the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada… SA comedian and talk show host, Trevor Noah, has given America his take on the tragedy. At least 59 people were killed and more than 527 others […]

Watch this dramatic footage of 80 ton whales in Hermanus, South Africa… Video and text by Luke Bell. Every year large numbers of Southern Right Whales travel from the Antarctic to the warmer Walker Bay off the coast of South Africa to calve and mate. Located about an hour and a half out of Cape […]

Watch the trailer below for the new Lifetime Movie – ‘Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer’. The movie – starring South African expat Andreas Damm – chronicles the events of the night that famous SA athlete Pistorius shot and killed his then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home… which ultimately led to him being found […]

The South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) successfully rescued a whale today that had become entangled in rope… in what was the furthest disentanglement operation to date. The whale in distress was at least 45 nautical miles off-shore, between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. The juvenile Humpback whale – of approximately 14 metres – was horribly […]

South Africans are loving a new Chicken Licken ad which features an Icelandic boy Bjorgen, living in Iceland, whose memories of a previous life as a South African – Frikkie – cause him to squawk like a hadeda, wear a comb in his socks (!) and say voetsek to dogs… His behaviour leaves his parents […]