Africa should be able to have the capacity to manufacture and distribute its own biotechnology to develop vaccines as COVID-19 continues to sweep the globe, says South African Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. Speaking during the webinar on World Health Day on Wednesday, Dr Mkhize said depending on other continents should be the thing of […]

The trial of South Africa’s Speaker of Parliament, Thandi Modise, has been postponed until the end of April on the request of her defence team. AfriForum, which is privately prosecuting Modise, said in a statement on Wednesday that the trial at Potchefstroom Regional Court has been postponed until 28, 29 and 30 April. AfriForum’s Private […]

South Africa has signed a deal for the procurement of 20 million doses of Pfizer vaccines. According to the announcement made by Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, payment processes are also underway to close the deal in the next few days. In addition, with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) agreement also fully concluded, Mkhize believes […]

Fifty three years ago, on 4 April, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Barely sixty feet away was the only photographer on the scene, South African Joe (Joseph) Louw, who was staying in a nearby room and making a documentary about […]

The price of petrol in South Africa is set to increase by between R1 and 95 cents a litre as of tomorrow, Wednesday 7 April, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced. The department attributed the increase to various global events, including the Ever Given vessel which blocked the Suez Canal. “The […]

Thirty Banded Mongooses that inadvertently ‘hitched’ a ride from Mabula Game Lodge for 170km to a house in Silverlakes, Pretoria, have been successfully rescued and returned by the Owl Rescue Centre. As the Centre says, this “unusual” (and uniquely South African!) story should make it into the Guiness World Book of Records. The mongooses’ adventure […]

About 7,000 families are living on the railways in Langa, Cape Town. The Siyahlala informal settlement calls the tracks their home, and they blame the City of Cape Town municipality for not providing services. Meanwhile their shacks are blocking the trains. The South African government wants them to leave, but they have nowhere to go. […]

Jeffrey, the baboon that’s become a household name – and visitor to some Joburg residents’ gardens – has been successfully and safely trapped. CLAW (Community Led Animal Welfare), which has been tracking Jeffrey’s movements, confirmed Jeffrey was captured yesterday and will soon be released. Jeffrey has been wandering the Johannesburg suburbs for the past few […]

Former Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader Mmusi Maimane has responded on Twitter to remarks made in a South African newspaper interview by fellow former DA Leader Tony Leon, who led the DA until his retirement in 2007. In an interview with News24 about his new book Future Tense, Leon reportedly declared that Maimane was “an experiment […]

A heartbreaking message from a proud South African Airways (SAA) pilot has been going viral on social media in the last few hours as SAA pilots go on strike for the first time in history, something he says they had never “lowered” themselves to do before… but desperate times call for desperate measures. The strike […]

South Africans have donated over half a million rand today, in just eight hours, to help save the life of much loved Doctor Sindi van Zyl. Dr Sindi, a general practitioner and public figure in SA, has been fighting Covid-19 over the past few weeks. Update 10 April 2021: Dr Sindi van Zyl has sadly […]

Howard Dembovsky, the founder of Justice Project SA (JPSA), has sadly passed away in the early hours of Friday morning. The news was broken on Twitter by Arrive Alive who sent their condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of Mr Dembovsky. Carte Blanche senior journalist Tony Beamish said: “My friend Howard Dembovsky, founder of the […]

The award-winning Ndlovu Youth Choir have done it again. The South African choir from Limpopo, who rose to worldwide fame on the America’s Got Talent stage, have released a hauntingly beautiful production of Indodana – a traditional isiXhosa Easter Hymn. Watch below. The Choir explained on YouTube: “It is a prayer asking God to be […]

It looks like an ordinary domestic scene of pet dogs being fed beside a swimming pool in South Africa, until you look a little closer and realise amongst the dogs are some very obedient warthogs who’ve learnt how to sit obediently to receive their snacks! “Sit Varkie (Piggy),” the woman feeding the animals can be […]

Below is an unedited conversation that Morning Shot’s Roman Cabanac recorded with Mahlatse Maroga. Mahlatse is the alleged ‘aggressor’ in the White River incident, in which a man appears to have been assaulted in front of police officers at White River Police Station, Mpumalanga, in South Africa.  The police seemed to watch without intervening. In […]

A South African pastor has kicked up a stink after being photographed sitting on members of his congregation and allegedly “farting the Holy Spirt” into them. Pastor Christ Penelope of the SevenFold Holy Spirt Ministries calls on members of his flock to lie down and he sits above their faces and, according to witnesses, then […]

AfriForum has assisted a couple from the White River district to submit a criminal charge after they were apparently intimidated, assaulted and threatened with firearms by members of a security company on 28 March 2021. The incident – which went viral on social media – took place in the presence of police members at the […]

The recovery rate in South Africa for patients with Covid-19 is holding steady at 95%, as the Health Department reports that almost 1,5-million people in South Africa (1 473 588) have beaten Covid-19! The total number of healthcare workers who have now been vaccinated is 251 707 as of 30 March 2020 as the country […]

Much to the relief of many South Africans, SA is to remain on Alert Level 1 with just a few minor adjustments, including that alcohol may not be purchased off-site during the Easter Weekend. But South Africans can purchase and consume alcohol at restaurants, shebeens and bars. Given the relatively low transmission levels, President Cyril […]

Following reports on Monday that doctors can now prescribe compounded Ivermectin in South Africa to patients, SAHPRA (SA health Products Regulatory Authority) has refuted the claims. AfriForum announced in a press statement yesterday that it and Dr George Coetzee had successfully obtained a settlement with SAHPRA determining that a medicine containing Ivermectin as an active […]

The South African High Commission in Maputo says it has accounted for the 43 South Africans affected by the recent shocking attacks in Palma, northern Mozambique. Meanwhile, Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister, Naledi Pandor, has expressed her deepest condolences to the family of a South African man, Adrian Nel, who lost his […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that South Africa has secured 30 million Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines. In addition, 220 million jabs which will leave the Aspen Pharmacare’s production line will be spread throughout the African continent. The President made the announcement when he and his Deputy, David Mabuza, visited the Aspen Pharmacare sterile […]

A drone video taken at popular Cape Town surf spot Kogel Bay – between Gordon’s Bay and Rooi Els – shows at least 10 or 11 bronze whaler sharks enjoying the water where the surfers usually hang out. Watch below. The video was shot by local professional bodyboarder Iain Campbell, who says that it “was […]

South African mother Meryl Knox has bravely paid tribute to her 40-year-old son Adrian Nel who was tragically killed by insurgents in Palma, Mozambique, during an attack on the town. Speaking from her home in Zinkwazi, north of Durban, Meryl told Sky News her son was a contractor building an accommodation camp in Palma, and […]

At least one South African has been killed in Mozambique holiday resort town, Palma, after a terrifying terrorist attack; and other SA expats are still missing. The South African government confirmed it has reinforced its Mission in Mozambique in the wake of attacks. The attack began on Wednesday when Islamist Militants attacked the town including […]