The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is appealing to the public to assist in finding missing information to accompany the many photographs they have in their collection. Over the next few months, the Centre will be publishing many of these pics on their website…and would like members of the public to supply any information they […]

A photo of a ferocious-looking lion in the Kalahari Desert is one of the key pieces in a new exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. The photo, which was taken by Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten, is one of last year’s best entries in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition. […]

OK, there’s no real news here…except that the British tabloids published pictures of Charlize Theron chatting to Chelsy Davy’s on-off boyfriend  Prince Harry at a polo match this weekend. And judging by the smile on Prince Harry’s face, he finds it rather easy to get on with women from South Africa! The 26-year-old British Prince […]

from an email doing the rounds   Before I was a Mom, I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby. I didn’t worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. I never thought about immunizations. Before I was a Mom, I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Chewed on. Peed on. […]

05 May 2011   South Africa’s Minister in The Presidency Trevor Manuel has been appointed as joint chairperson of the Green Climate Fund, which is tasked with designing a finance system to help developing countries adapt to climate change. Manuel, who is the head of South Africa’s National Planning Commission, will chair the Green Climate Fund together […]

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 […]

South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company has won a Tony Award for making life-size horse puppets for a successful West End and Broadway play. The Cape Town-based company has already accepted the honour for the 2011 Tony Awards taking place later this year. The award was an exclusive one, meaning that no other puppet-making companies were eligible for it. […]

Stop the press! Chelsy Davy has been spotted shopping for identical shoes to her potential future sister-in-law Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (formerly known as Kate!). The British press are having a field day with photos of Chelsy (25), seen in Office shoe shop in the King’s Road trying on similar (but cheaper) shoes to the […]

Starfish, an international development charity aiming to bring life, hope and opportunity to children in South Africa who have been orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, has places available in some fantastic races for 2011. So why not get fit whilst making a difference? Do you fancy running a 5K as a Superhero? Or how […]

The response to the closure of SAReunited’s social networking section has been incredible, and we are now doing our utmost to reintroduce some of those features – more announcements within the next few weeks. But for now – here are just some of the many emails you so kindly sent to us. To keep updated […]

Table Mountain is in the running to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature (www.new7wonders.com) and the iconic mountain needs a few more votes in order to take it from its current 10th place to at least number 7! You can sms or vote online. If you live in South Africa, you can sms/text the […]

Andrew Newman is a South African (well, Afro-Celtic now) healer and PoemCatcher. He has a geography degree in army avoidance (!) from the early ’90s and has just published ‘Royal Wedding Poems’, an anthology of donated poems inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton. After working in the family jewellery business for many years, Andrew […]

On 27 April, Freedom Day, President Jacob Zuma will bestow National Orders on a number of worthy South Africans and citizens of foreign countries. The Presidency released the list of recipients for 2011 on 21 April. Zuma will confer the six categories – each one representing a specific service offered to the country – of […]

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, a teacher and lay preacher from the Eastern Cape, died in obscurity 106 years ago today, aged just 33. But he left an indelible legacy. His hymn “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” (God bless Africa) went on to become the continent’s most famous anthem of black struggle against oppression. Sontonga wrote the first verse […]

Three South African short films have been selected for the prestigious Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, or Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, to be held in May in the river city of that name in the Ruhr region of Germany.   The films are Atrophy by Palesa Shongwe, Balance by Colleen Alborough and Steglitz House by Bridget Baker. The Kurzfilmtage is […]

Check out the great South African exhibition at London’s prestigious V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum). The exhibition – ‘Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography’ – presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa. It features works by some of the most exciting and inventive photographers living and working […]

The third summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging nations takes place in China on 14 and 15 April under the theme Broad Vision, Shared Prosperity. South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, representing the country for the first time at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, addressed […]

From an email doing the rounds An old but brilliant wedding invite:  

by Ray Maota OR Tambo International Airport is Africa’s best, according to a survey of more than 11-million airline passengers of 100 different nationalities. Africa’s Best The airport, based in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, won the title of “Africa’s Best Aiport” at the World Airports Awards, held in Copenhagen on 30 March 2011. The […]

by Ray Maota Campaign Earth Hour was celebrated amid a shower of candlelight and music in Johannesburg recently. The cause was symbolically marked in the city by the switching off of lights at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, south-west Johannesburg, on 26 March 2011 between 8.30pm and 9.30pm. The celebrations, held at the Orlando West […]

from an email doing the rounds (both men & women, sons & daughters – need to read this) After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, ‘I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend […]

According to Rape.co.za, it’s estimated that women born in South Africa have more chance of being raped than learning how to read. The site also quotes a survey that was conducted amongst 1,500 Sowetan school children, in which it was discovered that a quarter of all boys said that “jackrolling” (their lingo for gang rape) […]

In amongst millions of secret US diplomatic documents (mainly cables) being leaked to the international media this week are comments about former South African President Nelson Mandela. The 92-year-old condemned then President George Bush for his invasion of Iraq, and it’s believed the comments follow on from this disagreement. The whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks, which got […]

You sat on my shoulders at the Mango Groove concert (1992) at St George’s and I remember the champagne in the pool one evening (and your ‘curious’ mom). Will never forget your boob tubes, and the curves beneath that drove me insane.

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