South Africa’s ultimate design festival – Design Indaba – aimed at inspiring people to create a better future through design and creativity ends today. Louise Ferreira, an advocate of the High Court and member of the Cape Bar (as well as the mother of an 18-month-old), delivers her verdict on Design Indaba 2015… The Verdict on Design Indaba 2015 […]

Proteas captain AB de Villiers has set Twitter aflutter after his awesome performance on the field today in Sydney, achieving the fastest 150 runs in One Day International (ODI) history and helping South Africa break records and reach the highest ODI score ever made on Australian soil! The 31-year-old now holds the record for making the fastest 50, […]

Get ready for an influx of lovely Dutch tourists who may just fall in love with Cape Town and its attractions after watching the video below. The video, filmed by two Dutch brothers, was commissioned by Linda, the country’s largest women’s glossy magazine/website with a readership (and a Facebook following) of over a quarter of […]

Accounting Students at Stellenbosch University (SU) have left a colourful tribute for their lecturers outside the Van der Sterr Building which was ravaged by fire over the weekend (see video below). The fire, which broke out on Sunday morning 22 February 2015, destroyed the third floor and roof of the northern and eastern wings of the […]

The South African Budget Speech today has predictably given rise to several humorous headings and tweets, with the alcohol and cigarette price hikes fuelling the best, particularly an acerbic quip from ‘Outside Journalist’ – @andiMakinana – observing that “the government drives you to drink, and then heavily taxes the drinks.” (See more from Twitter below.) The 2015 national […]

Check out Pretoria fashion blogger Beatrice Banda’s everyday make-up routine…which includes some hot make-up tips, as well as a little insight (for those who don’t wear make-up) into just how much fun one can have with a little lipstick and mascara! The video’s a bit long at six-and-a-half minutes, but Beatrice is so mesmerising in her clear […]

As former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath apologises for his “highly inappropriate” African hunting safari in which he allegedly shot an elephant, another rather inappropriate video involving an elephant has re-surfaced. The video – of a drunk man charging a wild elephant (yup, you read that right) – was uploaded by Kruger Sightings in 2013, and […]

Jacques Wieciech is no stereotype. He looks like a tough rugby player, but he sings like a bird. He is a body builder, athlete and personal trainer, but he spends his time singing opera and helping children to overcome bullying. And recently the South African expat spent time back home giving talks and performing back […]

Some things never change…even when people are ‘sick of it’. A video uploaded almost two years ago has taken off again on social media, with many of those sharing it believing it to be a brand new song written just for the aftermath of the 2015 State of the Nation address (SONA). Rick Andrew uploaded […]

Although there wasn’t a huge South African presence at the Academy Awards last night, there was an Oscar for a film produced by a South African, Eric Abraham. Abraham is a South African born film and theatre producer  who co-produced the Polish film Ida which was awarded Best Foreign Language Film at the glamorous ceremony in Los Angeles. The […]

UPDATE: ALL miners have been safely rescued and there are no injuries reported! President Jacob Zuma has expressed shock and concern at the news that a large number of mine workers are trapped underground at a Carletonville mine. In a statement tonight the President said he wishes the miners and their families strength during this […]

A young guy in Vereeniging, Refentse Morake, is fast becoming an internet sensation with his guitar and beautiful voice…recorded on the cellphone of a passerby! Vereeniging resident Cecilia Kruger Marchionna (also known as Tannie Kleintjie) happened to overhear Refentse playing on his guitar when she was wandering up the road…so she whipped out her cellphone, […]

Suzelle’s “bitesized DIY web-series” has inspired South Africans to try some creative do-it-yourself projects…and inspired some children around the nation to film themselves imitating her! Even her colourful language… The latest videos – featured on this page – were filmed by proud mom Carolyn Lewis, with her son Kahlil and daughter Maya in the starring roles of Suzelle and […]

After wrapping up a successful world tour, Passenger has released a video tribute filmed in Cape Town called ‘Setting Suns’. English singer-songwriter Michael Rosenberg – who goes by his stage name Passenger – said “I can’t quite believe how beautiful that city is”. The folk-rock star, whose single ‘Let Her Go’ was nominated for a Grammy, […]

Firefighting helicopters battled to get a fire under control on Signal Hill in Cape Town yesterday. Zaahid Appoles captured these photos which show the helicopters dropping water bombs as the fire moved into a gully on the slopes of the mountain, making it difficult for firefighters on the ground to reach it. Efforts to put […]

Within the next 24 hours Cape Town swimmer, adventurer, inspirational author – and all-round passionate rescuer of the planet – Lewis Pugh will attempt the most southern swim in the world.  Lewis, who is the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, will be the first human ever to take on the freezing cold 1 km stretch around […]

South Africa’s Leader of the Opposition, Mmusi Maimane, did not hold back in his verbal attack on President Jacob Zuma in Parliament today, saying what has been said around candlelit dinner tables, braais and in the media around the country since Thursday’s (somewhat failed) State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Cape Town. The DA […]

The proposed new Land Holdings Bill is set to make sweeping land reform changes to South Africa including foreigners being forbidden to own land and a restriction on current land ownership that will allow Government to redistribute the excess. The new Bill aims to redress the problem of “land injustice of more than 300 years of […]

There’s a wonderful peaceful movement happening in South Africa, calling for all South Africans to take part in a “Peaceful, Silent, Powerful Protest Day for our Beloved South Africa”… It started with the disappointing and now infamous State of the Nation Address (SONA)…a debacle…which prompted citizens around the country to sit up and say #EnoughIsEnough. And it […]

Last Sunday night, after yet another weekend of South Africa’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) being called out repeatedly to attend tragic – and avoidable – scenes, one of their paramedics sent us the following heartfelt letter. THEN I CAN CRY…by Alan Rudnicki We choose our career for many reasons. And from Day One we know it’s chosen us. It’s not […]

Last night a group of talented photographers gathered at uShaka Pier in Durban to capture the spectacular scenes of ‘Orbs at Moyo’ (referring to a local restaurant). The collection on this page are from Peter de Groot (thank you!) who described the evening as an “awesome and fun event” and thanked organiser Robbie Aspeling and spinners Chas […]

During the highs and lows of SONA2015, Twitter outdid itself, with tweeters inside Parliament suddenly becoming reporters (especially on those things the SATV cameras so obviously turned away from). An excellent and speedy video tweet from JacarandaFM’s @MornéJK actually crashed SAPeople.com for a while, so many people wanted to see the EFF being confronted by […]

Eish, Johnny Clegg is an inspiration on so many levels. Check how the legendary South African still unites, and dances with energy at the age of 61. The video was filmed by Marguerite Nokuthula de Villiers at the End of Year farewell dance outside Jeppe Hostel a couple of months ago, in December. In a previous interview […]

For those who missed it, here is the full State of the Nation Address by President Jacob G Zuma in Parliament on 12 February 2015, in Cape Town. (To see the EFF scuffle which made the biggest news of the night, click here.) Good evening, sanibonani, molweni, riperile, dumelang, lotshani, goeie naand, ndimadekwana, !gai//goes. I would […]

Tonight’s State of the Nation Address will be remembered for unfortunately being more like a circus than a parliamentary gathering. Many called it a “joke” and Redi Thlabi went so far as to tweet that it was  “like watching porn with your parents. #Embarrassing”. The evening began with an alleged deliberate jamming of the cellphone signal. […]