Yesterday was a good day for one Knysna baboon who has been suffering from a snare wire caught around her wrist, since she was first spotted just after the June fires. See video below. In a fantastic collaborative effort, Knysna Veterinary Clinic and Baboon Matters successfully helped the female baboon in the Eastford area. It […]

JUSTIN SULLIVAN is well known in South Africa for his dramatic photos and footage of the fires in the Western Cape. He recently visited Indonesia where his girlfriend was attending a yoga retreat in Bali. These are his impressions – including a beautiful video – of their 30-day visit… “Every time I leave South Africa, […]

Some South Africans like to call it the ‘chicken run’, but leaving your homeland and settling into a new country is definitely not for sissies! You’re far from home, far from most of your friends and family… and in the beginning nothing’s familiar. Here’s an expat’s survival guide for South Africans abroad, based on tips […]

Just 1,5 hours from Cape Town’s City Centre lies a natural haven – the West Coast National Park. Its central point – Langebaan Lagoon – is just inland from the beautiful secluded harbour of Saldanha Bay. Take a gentle visual cruise through the Park with this video, filmed by Robert Wedderburn. The 27-year-old  filmmaker and […]

Check out the latest brilliant offering from Cape Town’s The Kiffness – “White Privilege”… which neatly – and set to a catchy melody – spells out exactly what White Privilege entails for those who still deny they benefit from such a thing (and includes a shot of a Google Search for “how to not be […]

This drone video of South Africa has such brilliant footage that Unilad has been reposting it every few months since January 2016 as if it’s new. But the spectacular views – from iconic Lion’s Head to a running rhinoceros, a freight train winding through the countryside to para-gliders floating over the ocean – are so […]

One of SAPeople’s favourite contributors, MARK WIJSMAN, has left South Africa to move back home to the Netherlands. But he couldn’t leave without making an impression video of Cape Town and its surroundings first… Mark had moved to South Africa to further his studies in 2010… and loved it so much he stayed seven years! […]

A pod of dolphins seemed to be deliberately hanging out with some surfers on KwaZulu-Natal’s South Coast on Friday… enjoying the South African surf together! Glenn Tungay‎, who filmed the gorgeous scene, told SAPeople: “I managed to catch on film this pod of dolphins surfing the waves off Amanzimtoti this morning… with some lucky surfers […]

Olympic legend Michael Phelps has ticked off a bucket list item by swimming with sharks in South Africa. Unfortunately though, his attempt to raise awareness about the species backfired this week when some viewers of a Discovery programme felt duped by his much-hyped race against a Great White. While Michael did indeed get to go […]

It’s hard to watch this without wanting to sob with pride – South Africa’s comedian who was “born a crime”, Trevor Noah, interviewing South Africa’s Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’! And their main topic of conversation is of course… South Africa. As can be seen in the interview, the two […]

Charlize Theron has proved in a televised interview, filmed last week, that she’s just like most South African expats – proud of her homeland and still in love with Mrs Balls chutney. There just is no substitute! Speaking to TV presenters Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, Charlize encouraged viewers to visit her beautiful homeland. She […]

Scuba diver Craig Capehart has captured an incredible video of a rare moment when a 40 ton humpback whale actually leaps TOTALLY out of the water, in South Africa. Craig and three other scuba divers were in a rubber duck offshore of Mbotyi in Pondoland, in the Eastern Cape, when they started filming some whales […]

Cape Town-based freelance filmmaker Naude Heunis captured a beautiful video of the recent snows in South Africa. According to his facebook page, Naude set off to the Matroosberg Mountains with fellow photographers and cinematographers, Mijlof and Bryn North, to film the snow ten days ago. “We were greeted by a proper snow storm through the […]

This heartbreaking video is a tragic reminder to NEVER speed when you visit a game park in Africa. To never speed. Period. The footage was filmed by Heidi Haas (66) during a visit to Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. She told LatestSightings.com in a recent interview, although this was filmed in 2014, that she was in […]

Hiking up Cape Town’s iconic Lion’s Head is special for anyone, anytime… but watching Chaeli Mycroft summit Lion’s Head with a group of ordinary people – doing something extraordinary – is super-special! Cape Town’s Wannabe Vlogger, Adam Spires, and a group of Capetonians helped the young South African quadriplegic make it to the top of […]

South Africa has the coolest traffic officers… who achieve the impossible by making rush-hour a pleasure to experience! Kelly Hannah Pretorius filmed this dabbing Traffic Officer on Friday morning. “We see this man every morning,” she told SAPeople. “He brightens my day without fail… and I am actually sad if he isn’t there! “Oh and […]

Award-winning Kearsney College Choir delivered an incredible performance live on East Coast Radio (ECR)… to the delight of presenter Jane Linley-Thomas… who had wanted all of KwaZulu-Natal to hear them. She said afterwards: “When we went live and they started singing, I was fixated, and you will be too after watching it.” As reported by […]

It’s getting harder and harder to convince foreigners that wild animals don’t roam the streets of South Africa. After lions recently escaped (again) from the Kruger National Park (which ended tragically), a video has been uploaded to YouTube which shows a hippo casually wandering through a petrol station in St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal. UPDATE Feb 2020: […]

South Africa’s Gupta scandal is making world news, with BBC Newsnight the latest to cover the allegations of high-level corruption and state capture by the wealthy Indian family… fuelled by revelations of thousands of confidential Gupta-linked emails. The programme, presented by Andrew Harding, also examines British PR firm Bell Pottinger’s role in distracting attention away […]

In an old Australian TV interview, before he was made President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma spoke candidly about the “propaganda” against him and his book-keeping skills, about the views of others that he was corrupt and about the name his father gave him. Zuma said he loved the people and had “dedicated my life […]

A beautiful mural of former South African President Nelson Mandela has been painted on the side of The Centro Building… on Mandela Street, in London’s Camden Town. Global Street Art yesterday posted the video below of the mural, to coincide with Mandela Day, the day Mandela would’ve turned 99. “What better time to share this […]

South Africa’s national power utility, Eskom, has admitted to paying Gupta-linked company Trillian almost R500 million in consultancy fees, following an investigation. Zethembe Khoza, Eskom Interim chairman, revealed today “in the interests of openness” that their investigation found that Trillion (which was a subcontractor to McKinsey) was paid R495-million by Eskom, and McKinsey was paid […]

The Springboks posted a moving video Tuesday night that outlines their bid for South Africa to host the Rugby World Cup (RWC) in 2023. The video highlights South Africa’s incredible culture, cuisine, wildlife and luxury accommodation… as well as its great prices compared to competing countries – France and Ireland. It also highlights South Africa’s […]

South African professional surfer Jordy Smith surfed his way into history on Tuesday… by riding two of the best waves to perfection for two 10 point rides… coming away with the first perfect heat in J-Bay history. Fantastic that it was a South African that pulled it off! Jordy said it he felt “absolutely phenomenal”, […]

Last week, the beautiful village of Kilfinane, in County Limerick, Ireland blew South Africans away with their stunning performance of Shosholoza. It was taught to them by South African expat, Patrick Othandwayo Sakayi, who moved into the area because it was the only place where he could find a property big enough to rent for […]