Will the real Clive Naidoo please stand up. At least the Clive Naidoo who was pulled over by a genial Johannesburg traffic officer yesterday, after which he videoed the incident, posted it on the Internet, all leading to to a Twitter storm and the wrong Clive Naidoo being identified as the culprit. The 8-minute video was posted […]

Annlyn Tyro was a South African living in Canada. Like many South Africans abroad life happened to take her there…but she never stopped caring passionately for South Africa and was one of the invaluable Admin staff on the Outraged South African Citizens Against Poaching (OSCAP) facebook page, committed to saving rhino in the country of her […]

Environment Minister Edna Molewa has finally released South Africa’s tragic and shocking rhino poaching figures for 2015, revealing that rhino are being poached at an even faster rate than last year with a 27% increase in poachers entering the Kruger National Park (KNP) to attempt to kill rhino. As of Thursday 27 August 2015 the number of rhino […]

Africa’s stories are being retold in a modern format, from an African perspective, to an audience who may not know them…from the founding of Botswana by King Khama III to the bravery of Bilal Ibn Rabah and the quest of Adama in a foreign, war-torn land. African history is about to get a reboot in one […]

Mrs Universe will be crowned tonight in Minsk, Belarus; and Mrs South Africa Sarah-Kate Scott is there…with a powerful anti-abuse message. (Please see Update at bottom of page.) During the lead-up to tonight’s big event, Sarah-Kate presented her video “How Does It Feel?” which was apt for the pageant’s theme of “domestic violence and reflection over children.” Directed […]

If you’d like to view South Africa’s amazing fields of wild spring flowers before the blooming ends – here are some tips and the latest flower reports, updated by West Coast Regional Tourism and SANParks Namaqua National Park, to help you find the best places and ways to view this visual extravaganza. Top Tip: Make sure you […]

Blood Lions, the explosive documentary that’s attracting a lot of attention since it premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in July, has announced further screenings around the country and in Australia. (See dates below.) Kevin Richardson (aka The Lion Whisperer) urged people to go see the film for themselves. Blood Lions exposes the breeding of […]

In a drastic, but vital, step to prevent poachers from killing rhino in South Africa’s first World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (EKZNW) have implemented a rhino de-horning programme throughout the Western Shores section of the Park. Unfortunately these are the kind of measures that have become necessary in South Africa. In […]

Twenty-three-year-old Sandile Shezi’s rise as a South African foreign currency investor and the country’s newest and youngest multimillionaire was not instantaneous. He started humbly in his hometown of Durban, selling muffins at his high school, but he always had big business dreams in the back of mind. Shezi’s knack for seeing good ideas in unexpected […]

The ANC, DA and EFF have reacted with outrage at the alleged “institutionalised racism, discrimination and harassment” at Stellenbosch University (SU) exposed in the video ‘Luister’. The ANC Chief Whip described SU as a place where Black students “struggle against being forced lectures in Afrikaans that they don’t understand” and where such students are “regularly made […]

It’s an incident South African sailor Nzunda Dosi won’t forget quickly.  The moment an enormous 4-metre Great White exploded from the water and performed an airborne 360 just a metre away from him in Gansbaai (or Gans Bay), South Africa. Nzunda, who was completely stunned by the experience yesterday, has worked on the Shark Diving […]

Most African professionals living abroad would love to return home, and almost all retain strong links of family and friendship to their countries. These were some of the insights from a new survey by Homecoming Revolution, presented by CEO Angel Jones at the brain gain company’s recent Speed Meet Jozi event in Sandton. The Homecoming […]

South African firefighting crews have been warmly welcomed back home after receiving high praise for their excellent work ethic and high-spirited ‘song and dance’ in Canada. The Working on Fire (WoF) heroes were in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada for the last month – where they helped fight multiple fires this season – as part of a […]

Have you ever been overseas and been mistaken for an Australian? It happens! Besides both wearing green and gold, being able to vote and drink at 18 and surprisingly both eating our national animals…what are the differences? [vc_button title=”1″ size=”size_large2″ color=”default”] South Africans say “Sharp” (“shup”) while the Aussies say “No worries” At the end of […]

Gift of the Givers announced this morning that they will be responding with Food Aid today to assist former Aquarius miners in Rustenburg, North West, who are suffering from such starvation that some are reportedly resorting to eating rats and even cats. Others have died, according to a report on Friday (14 August 2015) – entitled “Dismissed Aquarius mineworkers […]

A video of a baby elephant playing with low-flying swallows in South Africa’s Kruger National Park (which SAPeople shared earlier this month) has become a huge hit on YouTube. Uploaded in late July, it has received over 7 million views to date and has been popular across the world. The ad revenue is also being put […]

Check out the trailer for the much-anticipated documentary film The Boers at the End of the World – about a group of South African expats unlike any others – which will have its world premiere at the end of this month in Camps Bay. The 80-minute documentary feature film is about a century-old community of Afrikaners who live in a remote region […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) made a stand outside the Department of Home Affairs headquarters in Pretoria this morning to protest the visa regulations “that are doing immeasurable damage to our tourism industry and which have the potential to kill tens of thousands of jobs.” DA Leader Mmusi Maimane was joined by several other DA leaders, councillors […]

Check out Suzelle in her latest DIY video…with tips on how to make a braaied brandy banana split (or is that braaied banana brandy split?). Suzelle, who understandably smaaks herself as quite the braai “mistress” (since her “How to make a Braai Pie” video launched her to local fame) is joined by Ultimate Braai Master host Justin Bonello […]

A South African visitor to the famed Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, was surprised yesterday to discover that postcards depicting only Nelson Mandela are available for 1993…although he shared the award that year with fellow former South African President FW de Klerk. As per the Nobel Prize’s website “the Nobel Peace Prize 1993 was awarded jointly […]

A month ago we came across a moving letter of gratitude from writer and Human Rights activist for children, Dianne Lang, thanking the medical staff at Gardmed Ambulance Service in Port Elizabeth who literally “saved my life”. We know how tirelessly paramedics work in South Africa and so we immediately asked Dianne – who has […]

South African Byeronie Epstein won the Mongol Derby, one of the world’s toughest horse races, yesterday in spectacular fashion. It was Day 5 of the world’s longest horse race (which covers just over 1,000 km), and it looked like it would certainly go into the 8th Day. But Byeronie and French rider Elise Poitrinal had other ideas…and […]

How do you spot an African? That’s easy because we all look the same, speak the same, keep lions as pets and will probably give you ebola. Inspired by #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou (see box below). [vc_button size=”size_large” title=”1″ color=”default”] Africa Is Poor Welcome to Luanda, Angola, the most expensive city in the world for expats. Rent is 28.53% higher than […]

John Stanford arrived in Cape Town on 4 August, following a gruelling bicycle ride of 15,200 km from London to the Mother City, undertaken to raise funds and awareness for the conservation of rhinos and an end to poaching. He and a friend left Putney Bridge in the UK in October 2014 and made their […]

This weekend Oppikoppi celebrated 21 years of bringing South Africans together with good music and great memories, while creating a unique template for diversity, acceptance and artistic collaboration. Considering the Oppikoppi music festival’s roots – a makeshift barroom stage atop a hill on a farm deep in the North West province – it has come a […]