He went on record as saying he was going for something ‘ridiculous’ over the little-run 300-metre event on Wednesday night, and Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa’s golden boy of world athletics, made a world record victory look ridiculously easy. Competing at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting in Czech Republic, the Rio Olympics 400m gold medallist […]

“I have had a passion for farming since secondary school” On the outskirts of Simon’s Town, Einstein Sibanda has established a two hectare free range poultry project. Sibanda, who is originally from Zimbabwe, started farming in December 2016 on the lower slopes of Rocklands Farm. He found out about the land — which is home to a Christian […]

American solo traveller, DANA ATKINSON, compiled a list of things she would miss as she sat at the Kruger National Park yesterday… contemplating her return home to Florida in the USA. Her list resonates not only with fellow visitors and tourists to South Africa, but also with South Africans themselves… paticularly expats who now live […]

On a crisp, cloudless day, hundreds of Muslim families gathered at Three-Anchor Bay in Sea Point to break their fast and look out for the new moon. The sighting of the crescent would signify the end of Ramadan, the holy Islamic month in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. As the moon was not […]

Like the proverbial cat with nine lives, South Africa’s scandal-ridden president, Jacob Zuma, may well have escaped yet again with his political life. This despite another resounding loss in the country’s highest court. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no constitutional bar to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, opting to employ […]

Pardon the pun, but it’s time to stick our necks out for giraffes. We have mistakenly taken the world’s tallest mammal for granted, fretting far more about other beloved animals such as rhinos, elephants and great apes. But now it seems that all is not well in giraffe-land, with reports emerging that they may be […]

A post by Capetonian Wayne Nefdt, former owner of Red Rock Cafe, has gone totally viral on Facebook… being shared by over seven thousand (very proud!) South Africans since he posted it on 15 June. The post is called How To Tell If You Are South African… You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume” […]

On 28 September 2016, the shareholders of South African born international brewer, SABMiller, approved the company’s acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev for $104 billion (R1.5 trillion). The deal paved the way for the creation of what is now by far the world’s largest brewing company. For a company that started out selling beer to miners in […]

LONDON, Reuters – At least six people have been killed in a huge fire which engulfed a 27-story block of flats in central London on Wednesday (June 14), London Fire Brigade said. At least 70 people have been injured in the fire which engulfed all floors from the second to the top of the Grenfell Tower, […]

Knysna local ESTER BEUKES wrote the following messages to SAPeople early this morning, while most of us were sleeping… Photos on this page are by DIRK ERASMUS and show the 7 June fires around PE (Draaifontein/Crossways). 03h48 Note 1 Unfortunately it’s not over yet. I woke up with a terrible headache… a sure sign of […]

Coach Stuart Baxter kept his promise of keeping his winning formula for Bafana Bafana against Nigeria’s Super Eagles when South Africa chalked up an impressive away win in Uyo on Saturday evening. Baxter is the only coach to have beaten Nigeria and the wily mentor begun his tenure with an impressive away win. Tokelo Rantie and […]

Springboks coach Allister Coetzee was pleased with the 37-14 win over France at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, the first of three Tests in the Castle Lager Incoming Series, but warned that the team cannot rest on their laurels with encounters in Durban and Johannesburg remaining. The Boks scored four tries to two and led 16-7 […]

MiWay has launched a disaster relief fund that is sure to be incredibly useful in South Africa where extreme weather – and weather-related disasters – have detrimentally impacted on so many people. The amazing Gift of the Givers will manage the fund… which MiWay – an insurance company owned by Santam – will kick-start with a generous donation of R300,000!! […]

It’s hard not to shed the odd tear looking at Facebook lately… the fires that have been ravaging the southern Cape may have brought devastation, but they’ve fired up the hearts of South Africans and corporations around the country. Engen is the latest company to lend its support to Knynsa and Plettenberg Bay fire-fighters. The South African […]

Over 200 people led by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) marched in Cape Town on Sunday to demand an end to violence against women and children. The demonstration was also supported by Sonke Gender Justice and the South African Communist Party. “Most of our workers are women, especially with [the South African […]

Rhino poaching is spirally out of control in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, and the original home of the iconic species has become the new ground zero as Kruger stabilizes… writes JAMIE JOSEPH, founder of Saving the Wild. Government organisation Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is bleating on about ‘budget cuts’, but the truth is, you can have […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Arab world’s biggest powers cut ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing it of support for Islamist militants and Iran, and reopening a festering wound two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for Muslim states to fight terrorism. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Assailants drove a van into pedestrians at high speed on London Bridge on Saturday night before stabbing revellers on nearby streets, killing at least seven people in what British authorities said they were treating as a terrorist attack. Armed police rushed to the scene and within eight minutes of receiving the first emergency […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British police rushed to an incident on London Bridge on Saturday after witnesses said a van ploughed into pedestrians and one woman told Reuters she saw people who may have had their throats cut. British Transport Police said casualties were reported after an incident that may have involved a van and a […]

US President Donald Trump’s norm-breaking campaign and early reign has been compared to several other divisive historical figures, especially previous American presidents. But when it comes to the style in which he communicates, there’s an uncanny resemblance to a notorious African dictator from the 1970s. For those that lived during Idi Amin’s vicious reign in […]

Daniel Sutherland – who describes himself as a Cape Town-based amateur writer who likes to fight for the truth, as well as being a patriotic South African – has penned his theory on how the Guptas became so powerful in South Africa. “The Gupta family read and analysed our country’s fault-lines. The father sent his […]

LONDON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Barclays will sell shares worth 1.5 billion pounds in Barclays Africa Group the bank said on Wednesday, marking another stage in its exit from the continent to focus more on the United States and Britain. Barclays said it would sell the shares to large investors, including South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC), […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A midnight tweet by Donald Trump unleashed a wave of sometimes mocking speculation by Internet users wondering what the U.S. president meant by writing “covfefe” in an apparently unfinished Twitter post that lingered online for hours. At 12:06 a.m. ET, Trump wrote: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” The post, since deleted, […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry will headline a star-studded concert in Manchester, England, on Sunday to benefit victims of the suicide bombing at Grande’s May 22 concert there, organizers announced on Tuesday. American artists Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Usher will also perform at the June 4 concert, along […]

Matt Meyer has gotten used to the inquisitive looks and people wanting take his photo.It comes with the territory for Meyer, a 31-year-old South African safari guide, who has spent more than a month riding his bicycle down the West Coast of the USA, from the Canadian border, with a nearly 350-pound fiberglass rhinoceros in […]