Some horses, trapped on a tiny disappearing island, in the flooded Orange River in Namaqualand, South Africa, were helped to safety by brave volunteers from the NSRI Port Nolloth crew. The incident took place just after midday on Thursday when the horses’ owner requested assistance for his trapped horses in the Richtersveld, near to Alexander […]

Three locals from Lamberts Bay fishing town in the Western Cape were out for a walk on Friday, when fortunately they were in the right place at the right time to not only make their own dreams come true… but to rescue three dolphins who had got stranded in the bay. Devilliers Uys posted a […]

Tom Cruise “is about to go off and shoot in South Africa”, according to Variety magazine. In an article on Wednesday, Variety said Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible 8” is about to be filmed in SA under the direction of Cruise’s long-time collaborator Christopher McQuarrie. UPDATE 11 Feb: Tom Cruise arrives in Hoedspruit to film Mission: Impossible […]

There’s no question about it. Wordle, the simple English-language word game created by software engineer Josh Wardle, is a viral hit. By John Dixon, University of Hull. If you’ve tried Wordle, there’s a good chance that, like me, you’re hooked. Since the game quietly hit the internet in October 2021, the number of people playing […]

A post on the Bryanston Country Club Facebook page is going viral and bringing feel-good vibes to everyone in South Africa, and abroad, who reads it. Not only because of the kindness of some winning members who decided to pay it forward, but also for Simon’s farewell speech which was packed with the same gratitude […]

(Reuters) – South African golfer Justin Harding took a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic on Friday, after carding a four-under-par 68. Harding had to return to complete his opening round on day two after play was stopped on Thursday due to the fading light at the Emirates Golf Club. […]

Earlier this week The Sun newspaper in the UK reported that a UFO expert had spotted a “disk-shaped alien aircraft” in a “remote desert on Google Maps”, not far from South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind fossile site. According to the report, based on a YouTube video by extraterrestrial ‘expert’ Scott C. Waring, satellite images show […]

On a trip arranged for journalists I saw that Philippi station has been ransacked – but the new trains are fantastic. By Tariro Washinyira. I used to take the train regularly to work but stopped in 2020 due to lockdown. I have experienced the decay of Metrorail over the past decade. The Northern Line that […]

Princess Charlene of Monaco’s recovery is still expected to take ‘several weeks’. This week the former South African Olympic swimmer celebrated her 44th birthday in private at an undisclosed treatment centre. The Monaco Princess shared her first Instagram post of the year – a video collage which had been created by the Princess Charlene Foundation, […]

Siya Kolisi is the SA Rugby Player of the Year for 2021, after the popular Springbok captain garnered the most votes for his performances during a tough season, while the exciting Aphelele Fassi underlined his great potential by winning the Young Player of the Year award. The 30-year-old Kolisi edged out strong challenges from his […]

Piles of distinctions for learners from crowded Cape Town settlement. By Peter Luhanga. Twenty-year-old Ephraim Simango had to study between midnight and 6am to escape the noise in crowded Siyahlala informal settlement next to the N7 in Cape Town. But he still managed to collect seven distinctions in matric. Simango, who got the highest marks […]

In the short time since the omicron variant was identified in South Africa in November 2021, researchers have quickly learned that it has three unique characteristics: It spreads efficiently and quickly, it generally causes milder disease than previous variants and it may confer strong protection against other variants such as delta. By Prakash Nagarkatti, University […]

The City of Cape Town has announced it will allocate R3-million to help restore the iconic Muizenberg Beach Huts back to their former glory, following a Save Our Beach Huts campaign spearheaded by Southern Suburbs photographer Angela Gorman. The announcement was made on Thursday by Cllr Aimee Kuhl (from Ward 64) on Facebook. She said: […]

A British Airways jet, in South Africa, left hundreds of passengers stranded after airport workers RIPPED a passenger DOOR right out of the fuselage in a costly blunder. The Boeing 777 had just disembarked all those who had been on board the London to Cape Town flight, when the farcical incident happened on Wednesday morning… […]

Employee “refused to participate in the creation of a safe working environment”. By Tania Broughton. The dismissal of an employee who refused to be vaccinated was fair, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has ruled. The employee, a training officer, had applied for an exemption from company policy on vaccination but was turned down. […]

The mighty Orange River has increased at Augrabies Falls National Park (AFNP) to over 3000 cumecs (cubic metre per second) and according to information received from the Department of Water and Sanitation, it will remain at this flow until the weekend and then slowly decline over the next two weeks. This means that there will […]

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) says it welcomes the Motion of No Confidence against Kannaland’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor, and has pledged to continue its investigation into how a convicted rapist and a convicted fraudster could have possibly been elected to these positions. Convicted rapist Jeffrey Donson, who was convicted of statutory rape in […]

It was double delight for South African hockey as both the men and the women won the African Cup of Nations titles to confirm their qualification for the 2022 FIH Hockey Women’s World Cup and 2023 FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup. The women came from behind to beat hosts Ghana 3-1 while the men […]

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has confirmed a new record-breaking minimum temperature was measured on Sunday morning, 23 January, in Alexander Bay, Northern Cape. The previous record of 22.5 degrees from 16 January 1963 is replaced by 22.8 on the 23rd. After Capetonians sweated it out over the weekend, the weather service said that […]

Princess Charlene’s SA Foundation has shared a heartfelt tribute to the Monaco royal on her birthday today, 25 January. The 3-minute video includes photos from her childhood, her swimming career, her wedding to Prince Albert II, her family life with her twin children (Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella) and her life as a royal meeting […]

A 69-year-old farmer from Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Midlands was found dead on Monday morning. Hedley James Brown, who just a week before was one of the ‘legends’ celebrating at the 75th Anniversary of the Amanzimtoti Rugby Club, was killed in a farm attack over the weekend. His body was found lying outside his […]

At least eight football fans died in a stadium stampede on Monday (25 Jan) in Cameroon, as the Africa Cup of Nations got underway. The government confirmed in a statement that another 38 people were injured at the Yaounde Olembe Stadium before Cameroon kicked off against Comoros. Fans were allegedly crushed at the entrance gate […]

Millions of people are now dying every year because of bad practices and South Africa is one of the worst culprits. By Marc Mendelson.   Last week saw the publication of two important scientific papers on the pandemic. Not Covid-19, but the pandemic of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections (known by the acronym, AMR), an ongoing and […]

A stowaway who climbed aboard a cargo aircraft that took off in Johannesburg, South Africa, via Kenya, has miraculously survived the flight, and landed safely in the Netherlands. The man squeezed into the front wheel section of a Cargolux freight plane. He was discovered at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam by crew, hiding under the fuselage […]

The Xinhua Distribution Centre – also known as the China Mall Distribution Centre – in Durban’s CBD, continues to burn on Saturday morning following a fire which began on Friday. Peter de Groot and Dawn Rouse captured these photos today. Peter says the fire is at the bottom end of West Street (corner of Anton […]