Annie Lennox will be supporting Elton John (actually Sir Elton John) at his AIDS Foundation Gala Event on Tuesday night in Cape Town. Elton’s Foundation (EJAF) considers South Africa its highest priority in its international funding because South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. Annie Lennox created The […]

by Nosimilo Ramela A new South African film is set to draw crowds to cinemas this May. Billed as the country’s biggest romantic comedy yet, I Now Pronounce You Black and White uses humour to explore the delicate and often fraught issue of inter-racial relationships. (View Trailer). The film is set in Cape Town, in […]

Check out the trailer for South African movie ‘I Now Pronounce You Black and White’, due for release in May 2010. More info about I Now Pronounce You Black and White. Visit the official movie website.

Check out South African supermodel – and one of the Angels from Victoria’s Secret – Candice Swanepoel  sizzling in this short video below for the April issue of Esquire magazine. The promotion, aimed at males (obviously!), is hinged on the question “how do you get a Victoria’s Secret Angel to dance for you?”. The answer, […]

Some great news from South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. He appears to have helped make headway in talks between Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government. The coalition between longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe and former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, now Prime Minister, had almost faced collapse in November 2009. Zuma has released the following statement, during his first […]

by Janine Erasmus Organisation of the highly anticipated 2010 Fifa World Cup Kick-off Celebration concert is underway, and the first batch of artists has just been announced. A host of international artists as well as some of Africa’s brightest stars are in the line-up, which promises to attract music lovers of all persuasions. The event […]

Eternal singer Louise Redknapp is getting a lot of flak in the UK for an ad she and her husband filmed in South Africa. It could be her over-the-top breathless voice. Or the annoying way every sentence ends with ‘it’, and then finally with “Don’t just book it, Thomas Cook it”. Maybe it’s the try-too-hard […]

by Janine Erasmus A copy of South Africa’s Freedom Charter will be auctioned in London later in March, and is expected to fetch anything up to £30 000 (R333 613). The Freedom Charter is an important part of South Africa’s past and was the forerunner of the country’s Constitution, universally hailed as one of the […]

Max Tomlinson helps you to focus on ways to maximise your new-found energy to look and feel fabulous. We start this series in your 20’s. The twenties are an age when people develop a sense of who they are and what they want.  But that can create anxiety.  The answer is to take time to […]

Eish. David Beckham’s already slim chance of playing in the 2010 World Cup, is now zero. The doctor who operated on his Achilles’ tendon in Turku, Finland, today has reported that it was totally torn and that Beckham will be off the field for approximately six months. According to the latest update on Beckham’s official […]

Congratulations to South African golfers Ernie Els and Charl Schwartzel who transformed last week’s World Golf Championships-CA Championship into what the international sports press were calling the ‘South African Closed’ as both battled it out for first position. The duel at Doral Resort in Miami, Florida was made more poignant by the fact that the […]

Highlights this week include:

– Check out classic photos from ‘Only in SA‘
– Pics of Kulula’s painted aircraft
– Trevor Rabin’s son Ryan and his band are about to make it BIG. Exclusive interview.
– Miss SA made it into the Miss Universe Top 10.
– Watch the Athlone Towers came crashing down.

You can also read the latest from our featured bloggers in New York, Cape Town, Durban, Tanzania, Johannesburg, Italy, London and LA.

Feast your eyes on a few choice photos from the Academy Awards, held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, last night. Pics include a radiant Charlize Theron; Matt Damon on the red carpet with his wife Luciana Barroso; Morgan Freeman with Invictus producer Lori McCreary and Morgan’s daughter Morgana Freeman. We’ve also added in some non-South […]

Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon (in Invictus) and District 9 lost out at the Oscars last night. As predicted Morgan lost out to Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) in the Best Actor category, Matt to Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) in the Best Supporting Actor category and District 9 to The Hurt Locker for Best Film. To make […]

In case you missed our live streaming page…here’s a screengrab of Charlize arriving at the Oscars! Read more about the South African nominations and view the streaming video.

Eish! We’re all for supporting South African products – so as soon as Mzansi came along with their new South African URL shortener, asking us to support SA by using them – we jumped on board, using them to shorten all our URLs for Twitter tweets. But they forgot to mention in all the promotional […]

by Jenni Baxter Oscar Fever’s mounting with just hours (minutes…) to go until the 82 annual Academy Awards kicks off tonight. Here’s a breakdown of the most important awards to watch if you’re South African and LIVE STREAMING of the Oscars below: ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Who We Want to Win: Morgan Freeman in […]

Watch live streaming video from theoscars at livestream.com Read more about the South African nominations for tonight’s Academy Awards.

by Allan Duff SOON AFTER arriving in South Africa as an immigrant I was sent to the judicial capital, the city of Bloemfontein, for a week’s business. I drove there, the driving being easy as South Africa had fast, open and well surfaced roads. Some 40 kilometres on the approach to the city the road […]

Highlights this week include:
– Exclusive interview with couple whose boat was hit by a breaching whale.
– Lisa Roberts won the European Championships Title
– The world’s largest SA restaurant – Shaka Zulu – is set to become an iconic venue in London
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced his retirement.
– Louis Oosthuizen won the British Open Golf Tournament
– Prince Albert of Monaco sets wedding date with SA swimmer Charlene Wittstock.
– South African surfer Jordy Smith is leading the World Surfing tour.

You can also read the latest from our featured bloggers in New York, Cape Town, Durban, Tanzania, Johannesburg, Italy, London and LA.

We’re pleased to report that President Jacob Zuma’s visit to No 10 Downing Street, home to Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah, went without a hitch. In fact the President even got to kick a little ball in the PM’s backyard, and met with England footballer Steven Gerrard and South Africa’s captain […]

Oh dear. Yesterday President Zuma presented Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II with a beautiful hand-painted 32-piece ceramic chess set. The gift – comprising of Zula and Xhosa warriors – would have been wonderful…except that Nelson Mandela had given the Duke of Edinburgh the same set back in 1996, a fact which Zuma realised afterwards when he […]

(Scroll down to view a collection of the best pics on Day One of Jacob Zuma’s state visit to London.) Eish. We hate to keep putting Jacob Zuma in this section – but sometimes he does put his foot (and other body parts) in it! Today he’s in London meeting the Queen, and making headlines […]

Martha Stewart got ‘twitslapped’ in South Africa at the Design Indaba Conference where she was one of the eagerly anticipated international speakers. It appears Martha and the conference were not designed for each other. Design Indaba prides itself on being about smart, sustainable design ideas that serve the greater good, whereas Ms Stewart was apparently […]

Highlights this week include:
– Exclusive interview with Johnny Clegg
– Umbrella Vuvuzella Song video
– Open Letter to the World
– A Mother’s Message of Mourning
– All the videos from The Kickoff Concert in case you missed it
– View pics of Bafana Bafana Parade and World Cup Concert
– Ronaldo meets Nelson Mandela
– World Cup for Dummies (everything you HAVE to know!)
– Read an excerpt of Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Still popular:
– Watch Leon Schuster’s trailer for ‘Survival Guide to SA’
– Elon Musk launched a rocket. See the pics.
– Classic Castle ad, bru! and Breast is Best at Nandos
– South African ‘walks’ on water!

You can also read the latest from our featured bloggers in New York, Cape Town, Durban, Tanzania, Johannesburg, Italy, London and LA.