Season 2 of the Showmax Original The Real Housewives of Durban launches today, Friday, 28 January 2022, with new episodes following every Friday. Watch here. Jojo Robinson is one of three new wives featured this season, alongside Londie London and Thobile MaKhumalo Mseleku. The wife of Durban businessman and former South African kickboxing champion Calven Robinson, Jojo […]

CNN correspondent David McKenzie, who has over 55,000 followers on Twitter, has shared some of the ‘hidden’ gems he has discovered while reporting from more than half of Africa’s 52 countries. McKenzie said he has “reported in more than 30 countries on this glorious continent” and asked his followers to add some of their own […]

The Western Cape Department of Agriculture’s State Veterinary Services has issued a quarantine notice to pig farmers in Thembalethu, Southern Cape, following laboratory results confirming African Swine Fever (ASF) in the area. African Swine Fever was also detected in KwaNonqaba outside Mossel Bay earlier this month. Western Cape Agriculture MEC, Ivan Meyer, said the quarantine […]

A couple of weeks ago, Professor Jean Greyling from the computing department at Nelson Mandela University bumped into a former student. His name is Onke Dume and he was in Prof Greyling’s class around 2013. Onke grew up on a farm, where his mother tragically died when he was young, but even though he had […]

I lived and worked in Beaufort West from 2012-2015. As a young and eager to learn Meteorologist, Disaster Risk Reduction Student and Coordinator for the CWP’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), I enjoyed working with Mr Hein Rust, my Mentor and now retired Disaster Manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality in Beaufort West. Most […]

Okay, so these are some of the things you’ll hear on the new Showmax Original: “Afrikaans people and the adult industry, they go hand in hand”, “The koeksister tannies order the big vibrators”, and “In South Africa, there are over 40 000 registered swingers.” Come again? These are just three of the revelations in the first-look […]

Selvyn Davids scored a try after the buzzer to ensure the Springbok Sevens team won their fifth consecutive HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series tournament – and their third of the 2022 season – when they beat Argentina by 24-17 in Malaga on Sunday. The victory also extended the Blitzboks’ lead on the overall log for […]

The Antipolis sank on the coast of Cape Town 44 years ago. Recently – on Friday 21 January 2022 – massive swells pushed the remaining wreck up onto the rocky beach near Oudekraal. Once a dive site, this wreck is now visible to those not willing to brave the cold waters of Cape Town. Check […]

Proteas captain Temba Bavuma says he was filled with pride after helping South Africa complete an outstanding home summer with another victory over India. It was a narrower four-run triumph over one of the word’s top teams on Sunday, but it was enough as the hosts clinched the Betway One-Day International Series 3-0 for a […]

Join Bands Not Gangs is a community music school that aims to prevent children on the Cape Flats from falling into gangsterism by giving them music lessons. The school teaches guitar, drums, and piano. The programme also donates musical instruments to community leaders in gang-ridden areas. WATCH Guitars instead of Guns… for Cape Flats Children […]

You can watch Carte Blanche on Sunday 23 January in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries from 25 January if you’re abroad. Here’s a breakdown of this week’s offerings from the current affairs show: Valkenberg Murder Mystery What happened in the final days and hours of Martin Kennedy’s life? […]

The DA has revealed that the real matric pass rate for South Africa’s Class of 2021 is 51.4%. The Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga announced the results of the NSC matric examinations last night. The results do not however take into consideration the high dropout rate. This year, the dropout rate of learners between grade […]

Demand for rhino horn in Asian markets, especially Vietnam and China, has pushed the remaining rhino populations to the brink of extinction. In the past decade, nearly 10,000 rhinos were killed by poachers in Africa. The remaining rhino populations in Africa and Asia are steadily declining, with fewer than 30,000 animals left in 2020 from […]

Steve Lewis (62), a semi-retired professional Engineer from Pretoria, South Africa, has his heart set on building a home for his gardener of over 25 years, Abel Shabangu (53), who is a dear friend of the family. Despite his diligent work ethic, Abel has only managed to build a simple tin shack with access to […]

Yesterday, Netflix and Shondaland dropped the first look at eight new Bridgerton photos teasing what many different characters in the popular show will be up to this season. Bridgerton returns for a second season on March 25, 2022. In keeping with the tradition of the novels, season two tells the romance story of Lord Anthony […]

Well known KwaZulu-Natal safari guide Gavin Udal captured a rare scene last week, at the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa, of a troop of Vervet Monkeys swimming across a swollen crocodile-infested river! This is not something monkeys would usually do. Gavin – who owns and runs Wendy’s Country Lodge & Zululand Adventures – said: […]

The Department of Water and Sanitation opened two sluice gates at the Vaal Dam on Monday, due to continued rain in the catchments feeding the Vaal-Orange River System and the Integrated Vaal River System, resulting in increased inflows. The department said three gates from the five that had been opened previously had been closed. One […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to join Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of the multinational conglomerate NantWorks, LLC, in launching the NantSA vaccine manufacturing campus in Brackenfell, Cape Town, on Wednesday. The President and Dr Soon-Shiong will also launch the Coalition to Accelerate Africa’s Access to Advanced Healthcare (The AAAH Coalition). This follows last September’s announcement […]

Parents and guardians of unplaced learners stood in a snaking queue outside the Gauteng Department of Education’s office in Marshalltown, Johannesburg on Wednesday. They are hoping to find space in schools for their children. State schools in inland provinces reopened on Wednesday. Inland schools opened on Wednesday but in Johannesburg about 700 students remain unplaced […]

A powerful poem by South African writer and Animal Rights Activist Herman H Le Roux, about the hundreds of thousands of domestic workers in SA, has gone viral for a second year. Read the full poem here: I, Domestic Worker – Author Herman H Le Roux, Artwork by Mary Sibande I get up at four. […]

South Africa recorded 2 597 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, pushing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 3 559 230 since the outbreak. The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape after 721 people tested positive, followed by 602 in Gauteng, 547 in KwaZulu-Natal, 167 in the Eastern Cape, 129 in the […]

A new study has shown that the Omicron wave in the Western Cape was much less deadly than previous waves, owing to vaccination, high rates of past infection in the community, and reduced risk of severe disease and death owing to the variant itself. Over 5,000 adult Covid patients were surveyed during one month of the fourth […]

Following a furore over the prices for Robben Island Museum’s (RIM’s) newest tour package, the museum issued a statement on Sunday saying “the walking tour is not designed to exclude South Africans, but rather offers an alternative way to experience the rich historic tapestry that maps the journey of South Africa’s liberation struggle.” The new […]

You can watch Carte Blanche on Sunday 16 January in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas in most countries from 18 January if you’re abroad. Here’s what’s coming up this week on Carte Blanche: MEDICAL A Genetic Mystery   When a geneticist from Cape Town headed to Namaqualand to figure out why so many people were […]

Over the past few weeks, several beaches across Durban’s coastline have been intermittently closed and reopened because of serious raw sewage spills into the ocean and rivers. Several beaches in Durban have been closed because of serious sewage spills into the ocean and rivers. Environmental activists have criticised eThekwini Municipality of failing to maintain its […]