While waiting for positive change in parliament is taking a little long for some, there is a massively positive drive happening in South Africa from the ground-up. Ordinary individuals helping each other out. Today’s story comes from Durban where a small gym studio owner Riaan Dohne, from Ri Shape, posted a message on Facebook a few […]

The first I heard Phinda Private Game Reserve was seriously considering #dehorning their rhinos was back in January when I was there on an assignment. The warrior in me said, “But you’re Phinda, you can beat it!” Two months later I was back at #Phinda on a different assignment when I woke up to a […]

A farmer from the Free State, Stoffel Boshoff,  is being hailed a hero after saving an Eskom worker from his burning bakkie. The car’s petrol tank exploded just minutes after Stoffel dragged the unconscious man from his vehicle. Stoffel (29), from the Vredefort/Koppies area, became an instant hero when he reportedly ran approximately 900 metres – […]

South African architects – East Coast Architects – have been awarded the 2016 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The annual award is presented to five architects around the world by the LOCUS Foundation, under the patronage of UNESCO. East Coast Architects’ directors Steve Kinsler and Derek van Heerden travelled to Paris this month to receive their award […]

Nine dorps – from each of South Africa’s nine provinces – are battling it out to win the title of Kwêla Dorp of the Year. The nine are: Dullstroom, Hoedspruit, Hermanus, Ballito, Loxton, Kirkwood, Hentiesbaai, Paul Roux and Potchefstroom. Each town has been tasked with doing its own thing to get votes – Tanya Tiefenthaler, from Facebook […]

New footage has emerged proving that the Kruger National Park were quite right when they hypothesised that the buffalo which smashed into a tourist’s vehicle in South Africa – in a video which went viral – were probably “spooked” by lions. As reported by SAPeople on Friday, the Kruger said that “most probably there were lions […]

Proud South African and KwaZulu-Natal resident GARETH ROBERTS sent in this gorgeous picture and a few words to remind us all of the wonder of our rainbow nation… “When we were first called the Rainbow Nation I was a youngster. To me this represented all our differences – skin colour, culture, economic capacity, education capacity, language, beliefs, […]

A Johannesburg resident has shared her harrowing but uplifting story which involves a special young student whom she refers to as her “human Angel”. On Saturday Nicole Gillian Morgan decided to share her “incredible story about a wonderful human called Obakeng Seutane (aka my human Angel”. It has since been shared over 9,000 times! Nicole wrote […]

Durban photographer KIERRAN ALLEN has shared a video to remind us all how much there is to appreciate in this beautiful land, South Africa… “There is so much negativity in South Africa right now that we are losing sight of how lucky we are to live in this beautiful country!” says Kierran. “Let’s appreciate and […]

While we all love our South African sunrises from the Highveld, Golden Gate, and Karoo to KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape… there are some for whom sunrise is not just a pretty photo. It’s the dawn of another harsh day… Capetonian photographer JUSTIN SULLIVAN captured this sunrise picture of Vrygrond (near Muizenburg, Cape Town). The white […]

NIGEL RILEY captured these dramatic photos last Saturday morning at Kalk Bay in the Western Cape. Nigel, who was once in the South African Navy himself, commended the men on the boat for being “true seamen, placing the vessel ahead of their lives – ‘no ship, no food on the table’.” All photos © Nigel Riley and republished here with […]

Kruger National Park have uploaded a video in which a tourist’s car is smashed into by stampeding buffalo. The Park said: “This amazing sighting happened along the main road from Satara to Olifants Camps in the Kruger Park. “A herd of Cape Buffalo approached a waterhole when suddenly they stampeded in the opposite direction and […]

Durban’s legendary landmark hotel, the Blue Waters, caught fire this morning in KwaZulu-Natal, with smoke billowing from the building. According to reports the incident caused disruption in the North Beach area of the coastal city. SAfm News said that police attending a conference at the hotel were able to help evacuate the 200 guests and 120 staff […]

Funds raised locally and internationally for the recovering South African hero, who was thrown from a train by robbers, have soared to over a quarter of a million rand… with the hero in question – Darryn August – revealing that the kindness of strangers who have donated unselfishly has “made me even stronger in the process”. As […]

There’s no stopping South African rider Brad Binder as he clinched his second Moto 3 GP win yesterday, Sunday 9 May, with Binder telling journalists “the Championship is looking good!” The 20-year-old won the French Moto 3 grand prix at the legendary Le Mans’ Bugatti circuit, extending his lead in the race for the world championship title. Last month […]

The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, Sunday reported back on the progress of the Integrated Strategic Management of Rhinoceros – the South African government’s multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary strategy to combat the threat posed by rhino poaching – announced by Cabinet in August 2014; and released the latest rhino statistics. The minister also confirmed that South Africa […]

Today’s Sunday Times newspaper in South Africa reports that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela fears for her life after being informed that a hit had been put out on her. Madonsela, who has become a popular heroine in the country due to her bravery in standing up to and exposing corruption, allegedly received a tip off last […]

In honour of moms in South Africa and around the world, here’s a selection of messages and campaigns celebrating the wonderful, unique, vital role that mothers play… From Google Google’s Mother’s Day doodle features two pairs of shoes – one for mom and for her child. The artist who created the drawing, Sophie Diao, says: […]

Nineteen-year-old KwaZulu-Natal surfer Shane Sykes has won the Volcom South Africa’s TCT ‘Rhinofish’ video trails with this 1-minute video which he not only surfed in, but edited himself. The competition was open to South African surfers under the age of 20 and was voted for by the public. The Salt Rock teenager has won a trip to […]

He’s not a rhino. And his mother wasn’t poached. But a one-week-old baby hippo is being taken care of by Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage, after he was abandoned by his pod. World renowned rhino expert and orphanage consultant, Karen Trendler, reported yesterday that local conservation authorities had referred the “very tiny, very weak” hippo calf to […]

South African hip hop artist Cassper Nyovest released “War Ready” today, a video dedicated to the 750 killed and thousands others arrested and/or tortured following the Soweto Uprising in 1976. Released this morning, the song has already received over 18,000 hits on YouTube and was one of the top trending items on Twitter in SA most […]

As we ease into Mother’s Day weekend in South Africa (Sunday 8 May if you’re overseas and unaware!) – here are some gorgeous pics that excited supermodel and mom-to-be Candice Swanepoel has been posting on her Instagram account… as her tummy grows. (Plus a great video below of her trip to South Africa to shoot an […]

If you’re a South African overseas, or living inland, this page is just for you – for those moments when you long to see Table Mountain and hear the sound of the waves on the shore… Thank you to current South African expat WAYNE VIVIERS (who plans to return to SA from China in a […]

Rhodes University students have produced a powerful video – DISRUPT – following the #RUReferenceList and #RUInterdict that serves to continue the conversation surrounding the mistreatment of rape survivors on campus, and to expose the ways in which the university management and police have allegedly failed them. The film also exposes a culture in South Africa in […]

If you haven’t visited KwaZulu-Natal for years – or ever – take a look at this stunning video footage that captures the mix of cultures and natural beauty and wildlife that are on offer in one of the most diverse and exquisite corners of South Africa. From zip-lining through the trees to visiting traditional Zulu huts, a […]