Lots of countries around the world are upping their flights to South Africa, but none more so it seems than the United Kingdom. British Airways (BA) had barely announced it would begin three weekly flights from Gatwick to Cape Town when it said it would add more flights from London over the summer as well […]

For all those who have been following the story and blog of a South African expat living in Canada who kindly offered her kidney to her former schoolmate, Di Wilkinson in Johannesburg, there is some good news! “We have a match!” says Di’s daughter Legh. “Speechless. Overwhelmed. Emotional. Grateful.” Potential donors go through extensive tests to […]

Jamie Joseph from Saving the Wild is on a mission: to fight against the poaching that is bringing our rhino to the brink of extinction, to stamp out the corruption that’s enabling these killings. She’s already managed to convince South Africa’s incredible Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to conduct a preliminary investigation into her corruption findings. Jamie’s […]

Meet the brilliant, awesome and inspiring South African teacher behind that wonderful video of the Vietnamese school children singing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika: Rodwell Steinbridge Chigome from Cape Town. (Watch video at bottom of page.) Rodwell is in his final week of a five-year stint teaching in Vietnam, hence the singing of the South African anthem […]

In Suzelle’s latest more-than-bite-sized how-to video, she competes against her assistant Mariaan on how to make the best burger. And Suzelle makes them BIG.

Africa has the most beautiful mountains, people, wildlife, food, beaches and deserts… From the Sahara to the Kalahari From Tangiers and Cairo to Dakar Nairobi and Cape Town From peri peri chicken and malva pudding to Moroccan tajines and putu From the pyramids of Egypt to the Cradle of Humankind From the Atlas Mountains to the Drakensberg, […]

Photographer MIKE GEYER captured these awesome photos of Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating library, in East London, South Africa, where it is docked until Sunday. In March the library and book fair made its first ever stop in South Africa at Durban Harbour. Logos Hope is an international non-profit organisation, registered in Germany, which has […]

The South African high commissioner to Australia, who is facing charges of corruption and fraud, has been recalled by the government, according to news reports on Wednesday. Sibusiso Ndebele, South Africa’s former transport minister, has been charged with corruption for allegedly accepting more than R10 million in kickbacks, according to news reports. Ndebele, who was a […]

It is difficult to escape the sense of an endgame in progress, not between the ruling ANC government and its assorted opposition, but within the ANC. Thus the cleavages between parties has now finally come out in the open inside the ruling party, too. Between the forces of modernism and tribalism, populism and order, radicalism […]

There’s no video that sums up the beauty, history and diversity of the majestic African continent better than former South African President Thabo Mbeki’s speech poem of ‘I am an African’. Mbeki delivered this speech in Cape Town on 8 May 1996, on the passing of the new Constitution of South Africa. At the time he […]

Visitors to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park were treated to a very special – and rather scary – up close and personal experience with lions whilst sitting in their tent. Watch the video below. Francie Francisca Lubbe, from Gauteng in South Africa, uploaded this video to Kgalagadi Sightings’ Facebook page showing just how close the lions were, licking […]

If you’re a South African living abroad and you’re registered to vote in this year’s municipal elections, book your tickets home for early August! Local elections will take place on 3 August 2016. The date was proclaimed yesterday by Minister Des van Rooyen (who was famously appointed as Minister of Finance by President Zuma for a couple of […]

So how powerful is South Africa? For those curious about the world around them, a United States network takes on the task of establishing just how powerful the southern most tip of Africa is (a country which they point out is the size of two Texas’s). With the use of excellent imagery, Seeker Daily points […]

“Nobody’s Died Laughing” is a brilliant new theatrical-action-documentary telling the story of the life of one of South Africa’s most beloved performing artists and activists, Pieter-Dirk Uys… often better known as Evita Bezuidenhout. In the documentary Uys jokes that he “had to create a character called Pieter Dirk Uys. Otherwise I would never have the courage to […]

While President Jacob Zuma urged all South Africans to pray for “peace, unity and tolerance” in South Africa yesterday, those words appear to have fallen on deaf ears in Hammanskraal where at least two people, possibly more, are reported to have been fatally wounded today in shocking protests. As horrific photos of burning buses and bodies […]

South Africa’s DIY Goddess Suzelle has a new video out. How to be an avocado aficionado. And this time it’s not because anyone can. It’s because her best friend Marianne REALLY loves her avos. Watch Suzelle dish out tips on how to tell when an avo is ripe and how to make a quacomole. Yum! […]

Watch the video below as what looks like a great meal for the lions turns into more of a bun fight… well actually, a cat fight! The footage was taken by Ranger Mike in the Mala Mala Private Game Reserve in the Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa. Two lionesses from one pride chase the […]

South Africans have praised athlete Wayde van Niekerk for being more than just a winner on the track. On Thursday the 23-year-old sportsman donated half a million rand to Newborns Groote Schuur Trust. According to Athletics Africa, Wayde himself was delivered prematurely and spent weeks in an incubator at Groote Schuur Hospital’s Neonatal Unit. The 400m prodigy, born […]

Jeremy Olivier may not have won South Africa’s first The Voice tonight – that honour went to Richard Stirton – but the Top 4 contestant still walks away feeling like a winner, with a wealth of experiences that have made this journey unforgettable. Jeremy and his wife Nicole, who have five children, first came to the attention of […]

Over 30,000 people from all over KwaZulu-Natal enjoyed a morning of fun and exercise along Durban’s gorgeous promenade this morning, taking part in the Discovery East Coast Radio (ECR) Big Walk. From the moment they left the start at uShaka Marine World to the time they crossed the finish line at People’s Park, Moses Mabhida Stadium, […]

In a nail-biting, close finish at the Italian Moto 3 Grand Prix today South African rider Brad Binder clinched his third win in a row… increasing his lead in the Moto 3 Championship! MotoGP tweeted: “It really doesn’t get much closer than that ? A huge leading group throughout the entire 20 lap saga, ending with […]

Conservationist PETER CHADWICK captured this powerful photograph during the recent dehorning of white rhino at the Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal. The dehorning has taken place in a desperate bid to save the rhino from poachers… to rescue these animals from extinction. After spending a month at Phinda with Simon James Naylor and “his amazing conservation […]

In an interview with Playboy magazine in the USA, Trevor Noah has revealed he has a fan crush on fellow South African, Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron; how his mom made him laugh after she was shot in the head, and that he listens to Otis Redding every day. The 32-year-old South African comedian, who replaced […]

Plastic pollution – particularly in the oceans around Africa – will thank goodness be in the spotlight during a two-day event in Port Elizabeth this July. Just this week, Durban was forced to temporarily close its beaches as piles of pollution and debris washed up on shore, and in the Western Cape seals have been seen caught […]

South Africans were the biggest winners at the 2016 global World League of Beauty & Fashion pageant in Bodrum, Turkey on Saturday night, walking away with an unprecedented five titles! In a message to SAPeople, SA pageant organiser Carolyn Baldwin Botha said: “I am more than SUPER PROUD of #TeamPageantsSA #PageantsSA.” Zenande Mncwabe (7) from Richard’s Bay won Little […]