There are a lot of #ZumaMustFall protesting and tweeting going on around, so we thought we would count up the different ways the words are being used, and where. 1. On chests 2. Anywhere you can put a sticker 3. On placards 4, On buildings 5. In songs 6. On computers 7. On the nearest mountain 8. In […]

Love him or hate him, Tim Noakes gets people talking. And Wednesday was no different, when the Banting Guru broke down in tears after a day being interrogated about an apparently innocent tweet. It all started with the message on social media by Professor Noakes in which he advised a mother to wean her baby on a low […]

The Economic Freedom Fights of Julius Malema increased the fight against the powerful Gupta family, widely known to have connections to President Jacob Zuma, and have released a list of 25 reasons the family must leave or be forced to leave South Africa. The list was made public shortly after the EFF and Malema were on Tuesday indicted […]

It was one of South Africa’s many dark moments. Fifty years ago, on 11 February in 1966, the neighbourhood of District Six on the fringe of Cape Town’s centre was declared for “Whites Only”. More than half a century later the area has (lamentably, after many hold-ups) still not been built on, and it remains a very visible […]

Bhutan has The Gross National Happiness Commission, India the Ministry of Yoga, Myanmar/Burma the State Law and Order Restoration Council and North Korea the (of course) Propaganda and Agitation Department. So when it comes to government institutions, how does South Africa fare in the name game? To start with, South Africa has one of the most overweight […]

CAPE TOWN – More business leaders than there was place for attended a meeting with President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, in a show of wanting to help the country out of its financial crisis, and offered a plan that he might consider before his State of the Nation address on Thursday. Most news reports called […]

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — The man who shot British pilot Roger Gower as he was flying an anti-poaching mission near the Serengeti 10 days ago has been arrested, and a criminal poaching ring uncovered, after an intense investigation, according to news reports. At least nine people were arrested, the Tanzanian authorities said on Monday, after […]

Twenty-five days to go to the Cape Town Cycle Tour – formerly known as “The Argus” – which is the largest timed bike race in the world. Lots of riders will be coming to Cape Town from other cities and from overseas. A limit of 35,000 entrants has been set for the 109-kilometre race around the […]

JOHANNESBURG – Arguments have begun in the Constitutional Court over the Nkandla case, and whether President Jacob Zuma defied Public Protector Thuli Madonsela by not following recommendations she made after an investigation into public money spent on his residence at Nkandla. The case was launched by the Economic Freedom Fighters, and their advocate Wim Trengrove […]

Playing off of Facebook’s “Friends Day”, which was launched by the social media giant to celebrate its 12th birthday by giving users a 58-second video featuring images of friends and family, a tongue-in-cheek video of President Jacob Zuma’s “friends” has been launched by a South African news network. The friends included in the video the Guptas, the short-lived […]

If anyone in Britain has not heard about how cheap South Africa is for a holiday, the Spectator has published an article reminding them that “There may never be a better (or cheaper) time to visit South Africa”, adding that “Jacob Zuma’s economic mismanagement has a benefit for tourists: it’s as if a whole country […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s Illovo Sugar said on Monday it has received a non-binding expression of interest from its largest shareholder Associated British Foods to acquire the rest of the company’s shares. ABF, which holds a 51.35 percent stake in Illovo, intends to make an offer of 20 rand (0.8593 pounds) per share for the […]

“It’s hell to try and get a concert ready in such a short period of time, but it’s important that we are a part of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival,” says Rosemary Nalden, the founder and conductor of Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble, arguably South Africa’s most important musical incubator which, based in Diepkloof, Soweto, trains […]

Why now? Will he really #PayBackTheMoney? How much of it will he pay back? These are some of the questions on the lips of many South Africans. These questions come after President Jacob Zuma’s surprise announcement that he would pay back part of the R246 million of public money that was improperly spent on his private homestead at Nkandla. […]

Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya posted this sweet video of a young rhino out for a brisk morning jog with one of the staff. The four-month-old southern white rhino calf was abandoned by its mother at birth, the conservancy says. Ol Pejeta is situated at the foot of Mount Kenya and is a trailblazer in conservation. It […]

Competing with the famous Midmar Mile in KwaZulu-Natal, the Cape Mile went off with a big splash on Saturday at the Eikenhof Dam near Grabouw in the Western Cape, and Tobias Ginsberg caught the anticipation, excitement and speed of an open-water swim in his series of photographs. The Sanlam-sponsored event (shown in a great video at the end) has […]

The aptly named Crankhandle Club on Sunday began a weeklong series of events showing off some gorgeous vintage and veteran cars on the roads of the Western Cape when it hosted a run out to Kalk Bay in Cape Town, with some of the participants well over a century old. The run out to the village on False […]

Lots of us have it, a kind of nostalgia-memory about home triggered by the littlest thing. We’ll be somewhere abroad and suddenly see, hear, smell something that reminds us of South Africa. Even New Yorker Sean Evans still gets it after spending only two weeks in the country. In an article in Conde Nast Traveler […]

The innovate site 10and5.com have launched a free Web show that highlights lots of creative things going on in South Africa you might not have heard about. Hidden galleries, music gigs, shops and loads of things to do. “This is our first episode and we’re super excited to share it with you – it’s full of […]

The name of the Gupta family is suddenly on everyone’s lips in South Africa. Barely a day after EFF leader Julius Malema demanded that the Guptas leave South Africa “with immediate effect” – because of their apparently strong influence over President Jacob Zuma and for benefiting unduly off government contracts – a report has appeared saying that the wealthy family […]

Some 20 starving lions stranded in a zoo in war-torn Yemen are on the verge of dying as an animal aid agency tries to beat the clock to save them, a conservationist in South Africa who is involved in the negotiations said. The lions are in the town of Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest, which has been besieged by […]

There were many things Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said today when he formally rejected President Jacob Zuma’s offer to pay back some of the money for Nkandla’s R246 million upgrades. Here are some of the highlights. “We will not allow South Africa to be sold over a plate of curry.” “We replaced (Thabo) […]

The Democratic Alliance has promised to cut the number of government departments down to 15 from the present 35, part of a programme that would apparently save the country R4.6 billion a year. At a press briefing on Wednesday the DA’s Mmusi Maimane said South Africa had one of the largest cabinets in the world‚ with a […]

Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, has strongly rejected President Jacob Zuma’s proposal to pay back some of the money on his residence at Nkandla, and has once again called on people to march on the Constitutional Court on 9 February, when the EFF’s case against Zuma is to be heard. In a […]

More than R10,000 of donations were sent in by people who saw a TV programme on Wednesday about a woman in Ocean View, Cape Town, who has been called the  Mother Teresa of Animals. Watch the interview with Ingrid de Storie: Not long after Ingrid de Storie’s story aired on TV, people started sending in money, […]