Louis Meintjes of South Africa has climbed from 19th position to 16th after crossing the line of Stage 11 in the gruelling 2021 Tour de France today, Wednesday 7 July 2021. Riding for Belgium’s Intermarche–Wanty–Gobert Materiaux, Louis is the only South African left in the race after Nic Dlamini and Stefan de Bod sadly didn’t […]

A young female volunteer from Belgium, assisting at a captive wildlife facility in South Africa, was left traumatised after an attack by a captive cheetah last month. The facility begged her to keep the incident quiet, but for the sake of the safety of other volunteers Amandine Lequime has come forward. Amandine says she was […]

The United States’ (US) Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) enforcement division are joining forces to fight tax and economic crimes affecting the two countries. The two agencies announced on Tuesday that they are working together to identify, investigate and bring to justice criminals with a nexus […]

The City of Cape Town and Discovery Health on Tuesday conducted an oversight visit at the Cape Town International Convention Centre mass Vaccination Centre of Hope to check on its preparation ahead of its activation today. Premier Alan Winde says they’re hoping for 4,000 vaccinations per day. Between July and December this year, this mass […]

South African athlete Akani Simbine has set a new African 100m record at the Gyulai István Memorial meet in Hungary! Simbini set the new African record of 9.84 seconds in the 100m to win at the Gyulai István Memorial World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in Székesfehérvár, Hungary on Tuesday (6 July). In an article […]

Banyana Banyana women’s football star Thembi Kgatlana is moving from Eibar to Atletico Madrid Fememino after scoring a massive three-year deal with the Madrid club. The sensational striker has already spent one year with Eibar in Spain where she proved a big hit. The 25-year old sports woman has been playing in big leagues around […]

Fabio Aru, cycling for South Africa’s Team Qhubeka NextHash, finished second overall after four days of exciting racing around Sibiu, Romania. Sport Director Alex Sans Vega said: “We certainly came to this race with hopes of standing on the top step of the podium at some point, and we came really close every day. Fabio […]

The British & Irish Lions’ Castle Lager Lions Series match against the Bulls on Saturday has been postponed with a view to rescheduling or to accommodate an alternative opponent, while the Springboks’ second Test against Georgia on Friday is also being reviewed. Four positive results among the Georgian team and four additional positive tests among […]

Distraught and heartbroken parents have told news agencies in Nigeria that their children have been plucked overnight from a boarding school and kidnapped. Around 150 students are believed to have been taken by armed men from the hostel at Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state, sometime between 11pm on Sunday night and 4am Monday. […]

In September each year, South Africa’s Gauteng province turns purple. The cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are well covered with trees – and jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), with their purple blooms in late spring, are a prominent part of this urban forest… writes Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand. About 16% of the land in the Gauteng […]

Springbok training has been suspended for Monday following a positive test for COVID-19 in the squad, SA Rugby announced in a statement. “The players have been placed in preventative isolation prior to further PCR testing and a review of the testing data by the Medical Advisory Group (MAG),” said SARugby. Lood de Jager retuned a […]

South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma on Sunday declared that “South Africa is fast sliding back to apartheid rule”. Speaking to the media from his home at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), he said: “The fact that I was lambasted with a punitive jail sentence without trial should engender shock in all those who believe in freedom […]

The scenes currently unfolding outside Jacob Zuma’s homestead at Nkandla, which have broken almost every lockdown level 4 regulation gazetted, are fast morphing into a dangerous and volatile Covid-19 super spreader event threatening the lives of countless South Africans… writes Democratic Alliance Leader John Steenhuisen. President Cyril Ramaphosa must urgently intervene in the chaotic gathering […]

AfriForum’s legal team will be joining the court application – to be heard on 12 July – of former President Jacob Zuma as a ‘friend of the court’ (amicus curiae). In its announcement on Sunday afternoon, AfriForum said it will be joining in order to “demonstrate that the special treatment Mr Zuma is currently receiving […]

South African soprano Pretty Yende has posted a heartfelt message of gratitude to all those in South Africa and around the world, including in France, who rallied to her support after the horrific ordeal she suffered at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. (Watch Pretty’s message at bottom of article.) She also posted a video […]

With a 25-run victory over the West Indies in Grenada on Saturday, South Africa has won the Twenty20 International series. Cricket South Africa (CSA) today shared some photos of the series-clinching performance. CSA said of the match at the National Cricket Stadium: “Lungi Ngidi (3/32) was the pick of the bowlers, complimented by a solid […]

The Commonwealth says it has been following the situation in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) very closely, and is “concerned about the regrettable violence that has led to the loss of life and the destruction of property”. In a statement on Saturday night, it said: “The Commonwealth calls for calm and restraint and urges all political and […]

Acting Minister of Health Mamoloko Kubayi has described an announcement by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) on the approval of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Sinovac Life Science for use in South Africa as a “turning point” and much needed relief for the country’s vaccination rollout programme. This authorisation with conditions, […]

The British & Irish Lions started the Lions Series on a winning note with an eight-try 56-14 victory over the Sigma Lions at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg on Saturday evening, with Josh Adams bagging four second-half tries. The home team lost focus from time to time, and were punished for a slow start with […]

NKANDLA, South Africa (Reuters) – A South African court on Saturday agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma’s challenge to a 15-month jail term (for failing to attend the Zondo corruption hearing), as hundreds of his supporters gathered outside his home in a show of force. The Jacob Zuma Foundation says he will ‘address the nation’ […]

As South Africa grapples under a fierce Third Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has authorised the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Chinese company Sinovac Life Sciences, and imported by Curanto Pharma. The authorisation was done in terms of a section of the Medicines Act that enables emergency use […]

The acrimonious divorce of a couple in Cape Town, South Africa, has made headlines in the UK where the husband was a former friend of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and once tried to lure him into a plot to give a journalist a “couple of black eyes and a cracked rib”. According to the Daily […]

South Africa has now recorded over two million positive Covid-19 cases since the start of the worldwide pandemic, with a ‘record-breaking’ 24,270 new infections in the past 24 hours tipping it over the milestone mark. This is the highest number of daily cases ever recorded in South Africa, as the country battles its third wave. […]

The Springboks are up and running, celebrating Friday night with a victory against Georgia in their first Test match at home since 2019! Although the match was not perfect, there were some moments of brilliance for the Rugby World Cup champions as they beat the visitors at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, South Africa, in a […]

Comair announced Friday that it is temporarily suspending all scheduled kulula.com and British Airways (operated by Comair) flights for three weeks. This follows President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a move in South Africa to an adjusted Level 4 lockdown and the prohibition on all non-essential travel in and out of Gauteng. Flights will be suspended […]