Congratulations David Tlale for making South Africa so proud last night with your fantastic Fall/Winter collection at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York! The South African fashion designer has been tweeting his movements all week in the Big Apple, from a ride in a yellow cab to meeting supermodel Ajak. And last night he […]

A two-year-old perfectly healthy giraffe was killed, skinned and fed to lions at Copenhagen Zoo earlier today (Sunday), causing condemnation around the world. Despite an online petition signed by over 20,000 people, as well as offers from other zoos to take the giraffe in, and even a private offer to buy the giraffe for half-a-million […]

Freedom Ride Jo’burg 2014 got off to an amazing start in South Africa this morning, with such an abundance of enthusiastic participants of all ages and skill levels, that organisers were forced to reroute. An hour ago @freedomridejozi tweeted “Route has been flooded Seeking alternatives”. Half an hour later came the update: “Reroute to Vilakazi […]

British pop star Lily Allen goes on a dreamy kind of South African safari in her latest music video ‘Air Balloon’. Filmed on location near Cape Town, the video features landscapes that are both familiar…and well…not so familiar, with the star sitting astride (and lying upon) a zebra and a cheetah, as well as dancing […]

Ever wondered if celebrities see some of the mean stuff people write about them? Watch this. It’s brilliant! American TV show host Jimmy Kimmel posted this on YouTube, saying “some people are cruel and write very harsh things to celebrities on Twitter. What you don’t see when you send a nasty tweet is that it […]

Here’s a classic video from SABC News. One of those “only in Africa” moments? Apparently people in the North West frequently complain about the bad state of the roads. So Provincial MPs decided to inspect it and whilst there, in an ironic twist…they witnessed an accident first hand. Thankfully it appears that nobody was seriously […]

President Zuma has announced the next General Election date – Wednesday 7th May, 2014. Registration STILL remains open for expats till end of TODAY (7th February) and this weekend for locals in SA (8/9 February) as the date has been announced, but not proclaimed (published in the Government Gazette). As soon as the President PROCLAIMS […]

Our hearts and prayers go out to Yolande Korkie and her family for the very safe release of her husband, Pierre, who has been held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Yemen since May last year. Tomorrow – 8 February 2014 – is the deadline for an approximately $1-million ransom to be paid for the South African […]

Joining the movement to turn social media game #NekNomination into a good thing, KFC South Africa has donated R25,000 to Add Hope; and has nominated all South Africans to take part too. KFC’s MD Doug Smart said KFC is “nominating you all to #ChangeOneThing by adding hope in-store or online at www.addhope.co.za.” In other words, […]

The IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa) have released very disappointing figures on the number of expats who have registered to vote so far. Less than 4,000. This must certainly be a reflection on the decision – whether intentional or not – to make it so difficult for expats to register. Australia is by far […]

What do you do when a giraffe walks into a bar? Film it of course! And that’s what a user by the name of ‘Tambako’ did back in September 2013. This week her video has gone viral since newspapers in the UK and Australia discovered her unique upload on YouTube. The video shows a giraffe […]

It’s official (well, as official as social media trends go) – the #neknomination hashtag has evolved into #raknomination, with ‘rak’ being an acronym for Random Acts of Kindness. And SA Breweries is already in on the action. The hashtag was coined by a guy in Ireland who was moved by the tragic deaths of two […]

We have 24 hours to sign a petition to help make Sive Speelman’s dreams come true and send him to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sive was the only South African athlete to qualify for Sochi 2014, but the South African Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has decided not to send him. Countries around the world […]

Nandos have gracefully accepted their #NekNomination challenge, and we can’t wait to see what they produce…and who they nominate next! Momentum had been gathering for the South African restaurant chain – whose famous chicken peri-peri has become a favourite in cities around the world – to accept their #NekNomination. This nomination is for a South […]

South Africans are being  called on to turn the NekNomination phenomenon into a positive social movement! And we can spread it around the world! A spokesperson for NekNation said “we believe South Africa should become the forefront of this moment.” South Africa has been singled out thanks to the inspiring video made by Brent Lindeque […]

South African teenager and singer songwriter Filipa has been voted through to the semi-finals of an international competition to find the Favourite Cover of One Direction‘s hit single, ‘Story of My Life’! (Watch video below.) Eighteen-year-old Filipa Carmo da Silva is now through to the final ten contestants in the competition, which is being run […]

A South African guy – Brent Lindeque – has put a positive spin on the binge-drinking NekNomination craze which has recently claimed the lives of a couple of players. #NekNomination – which is believed to have begun in Australia – began trending last month, and an Irish NekNomination Facebook page gathered 10,000 followers in less […]

The DA Abroad have called on all South Africans abroad to sign a petition calling for more voting stations to be made available. Since the announcement that South African expats could register to vote, there has been both elation and disappointment. The voting stations that have been assigned in countries have been few and VERY […]

Two Durban-based professional photographers have created a visually stunning tribute to Durban – a time-lapse video entitled “I am Durban”. The photographers – Matt Wilkes and Kierran Allen – spent 12 months shooting in and around the Durban area to create the unique footage for their homage. “We wanted to showcase Durban in a new […]

Bruce Springsteen and his E-Street band came to South Africa and rocked it! At times it was difficult to see who was enjoying the show more – Springsteen or his fans. And at his last show he delighted earlybird fans with a short surprise solo set hours before the ‘real’ show began! (See video below.) […]

Contrary to Dr Mamphela Ramphele’s observation that the AgangSA/DA deal was rushed into, the Democratic Alliance’s leader Helen Zille said this morning that it had been “a very long and ongoing process”. In a media briefing she said that sometimes in politics you have to take a risk, and sometimes these risks work, and sometimes […]

While huge brands fought it out last night to capture the world’s attention at the Super Bowl in the USA – where the commercials are as hotly anticipated as the NFL game itself – a South African ad has surpassed them all. Grab some tissues and watch the ad…created for Bell’s Whisky. Elite Daily website […]

Agang SA today confirmed that the DA/Agang deal is off and that Agang SA will be contesting the 2014 elections as an independent party in South Africa, with Dr Mamphela Ramphele as its Presidential Candidate. Dr Ramphele said “even as we declare our withdrawal from talks with the Democratic Alliance, we remain committed to working […]

The deal between the DA and Agang SA’s Mamphela Ramphele – in which Ramphele had accepted the DA’s invitation to stand as its Presidential Candidate – is over less than a week after it was announced. In a press statement released tonight, Helen Zille – leader of the Democratic Alliance – said Ramphele’s reneging on their […]

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away at the age of 46. He was found in his New York apartment, dead from an apparent drug overdose, less than 24-hours after his representatives released a statement saying that reports of his death on Saturday were a hoax. Hoffman had checked himself into rehab last May […]