About 50 parents protested outside the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s district offices on Thursday morning because of a shortage of teachers at Coselelani High School in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth. They blocked the entrance, stopping vehicles. They waved placards: “Expecting 100% pass rate in a school with no educators. In your dream.” School principal Langa […]

Tributes have poured in for one of South Africa’s heroes – mother, wife and Detective Warrant Officer Delene Grobler-Koonin (44), who was killed on Thursday during an exchange with an armed gang of cash-in-transit robbers in Mahikeng, North West. Five suspects have been arrested, while three were killed during the confrontation. The NSPCA (National Council […]

Video footage has captured the incredibly rare and harrowing scene of a seal attacking a disorientated whale that had swum into Hout Bay Harbour in the Western Cape of South Africa. The video tragically ends with the dolphin-sized Dwarf Sperm Whale bravely releasing ink to shake off the seal… but ultimately being driven up onto […]

The South African government has dismissed reports contained in a Mail & Guardian article that South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers are not willing to travel to Wuhan, China, to repatriate citizens. Government Communication and Information Systems (GCIS) Acting Director-General Phumla Williams said the article is misleading and misinforms readers and the public about […]

The Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize and the NCID (National Institute of Communicable Diseases) will hold a media briefing at the epicentre of South Africa’s Coronavirus outbreak – in Hilton, near to Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. This comes following the announcement yesterday of South Africa’s first confirmed case of the COVID-19 virus that is currently […]

Since South Africa confirmed its first case of Coronavirus, locals have predictably responded with humour (those that aren’t queuing up to buy hand sanitisers!). The Coronavirus jokes and memes are being shared (faster than the virus thank goodness!) all over social media in South Africa… (All new Corona virus jokes and memes are added near […]

South Africans should not panic but rather be alert. That is the advice from President Cyril Ramaphosa following the announcement of the first case of the Coronavirus in the country. The President has assured the nation that the SA government is and will continue to demonstrate urgency and caution as South Africa deals with its […]

Haha, watch the latest video that regular SAPeople contributor Faried Swartz has created… this time a parody of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s “You’re the One That I Want” from 1978 blockbuster Grease. Faried sings instead: “It’s Your Money They Want”. Watch below… The song about South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, and it having its […]

The Gauteng Executive Council has placed the City of Tshwane, in South Africa, under provincial administration following current uncertainty and instability within the municipality. Making the announcement on Thursday, Gauteng Premier David Makhura said the decision to take responsibility of all the executive powers of the City of Tshwane council was taken after an assessment, […]

Animals have shockingly been left to starve in the Bloemfontein Zoo, and some have already tragically died from hunger, since the Zoo was closed on 17 December 2019 by the Provincial Department of Environmental Affairs (DESTEA). A description from the Bloemfontein SPCA of the conditions in which they found the animals on a recent visit […]

The Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has confirmed the first case of Coronavirus in South Africa on Thursday afternoon – a family man who recently returned from a holiday to Italy. The Minister took to Twitter to make the announcement just moments before a Parliamentary debate on South Africa’s readiness to deal with Coronavirus […]

Parktown Boys High School educators, together with the Nyati Bush Camp, have been found liable in the death of Enock Mpianzi in what Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has described as a “damning report”… in which it was also found that four other children had previously lost their lives at the camp. Lesufi released the […]

According to a BBC documentary, very few fishermen in Jacobs Bay (Jacobsbaai) on the West Coast, South Africa, will be able to survive if the China lockdown continues for much longer. Speaking to fishermen, some of whom have fished these Atlantic Ocean waters for 25 years, they say they’re now struggling to pay rent, power […]

Northern Cape photographer Henriette Folscher Brandvlei captured this sequence of photos of the apocalyptic scene as a massive sand storm swept through the drought-stricken area near Kenhardt, South Africa, a couple of weeks ago (mid-February): Henriette, a farmer’s wife, said the drought is very, very severe right now… as can be evidenced by the above […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on industry and governments to increase manufacturing of surgical masks and protective gear, as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads to more countries. According to WHO, industries and governments need to increase manufacturing by 40% to meet rising global demand. WHO warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global […]

Thirty-two elephants in South Africa face being shot dead after two rogue bull elephants killed a conservationist trying to shepherd the herd back to a KwaZulu-Natal reserve from which they had strayed. Sources close to the KZN authorities say that a cull of the entire herd has been proposed, but no decision has yet been […]

The South African Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2019, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has revealed… and SA has officially entered into a recession. The South African GDP now stands at a miniscule 0.2%. After successive quarters of negative growth, South Africa entered into a recession in the […]

The reckless driver seen in a South African video that went viral, filmed in Nelson Mandela Bay, has had a case opened against him. It has also transpired that he was driving a rental vehicle. John Best – DA NMB Spokesperson for Safety and Security – said he and DA Ward 2 Councillor Renaldo Gouws […]

As cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Europe steadily climb, some Europeans have been stocking up in preparation for voluntary quarantines or forced lockdowns. The risk of contracting coronavirus within Europe has been raised by the EU today from ‘moderate’ to ‘high’. These photos were taken today at a supermarket in Germany, close to the border […]

Legendary South African Country music singer Lance James has sadly passed away at the age of 81. The star – known as ‘Big Daddy’ – had fallen and broken his hip earlier this year during a hospital visit, and had been in Intensive Care ever since. His PR agent Lydia Winchester confirmed that James passed […]

The South African Government has outlined ‘stringent’ plans to repatriate South Africans from the Coronavirus-hit Wuhan City in China. “We have been able to ascertain that there are approximately 199 South Africans living in Wuhan and of those, 147 have indicated a wish to be repatriated,” said the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize. Amongst […]

The director of Kronendal Music Academy in South Africa has published a heartbreaking message on social media, following the rape and murder of one of the Hout Bay NPO’s pupils, Sibusiso Thorn Dakuse. The young boy from Mandela Park (who was reportedly 12) went missing on Wednesday 26 February 2020, before his body was tragically […]

South Africa’s Minister of Police, General Bheki Cele, has had a busy and sad day paying his respects to two children, tragically killed in separate incidents in the Western Cape… but both revealing a society that is broken. Eight-year-old Tazne van Wyk was killed by a neighbour she thought was a friend, earlier this month. […]

The winds are howling in the Western Cape, bringing large waves to the coastline, and hampering firefighting efforts overnight. Nigel Riley captured these amazing photos of the waves at Kalk Bay Harbour on Saturday morning. “The South Easter is back,” he said. #DutoitskloofFire Meanwhile the Du Toitskloof Fire continues to burn and spread for the […]

The large Du Toitskloof fire in Paarl, South Africa, has continued to rage for a fourth day, its billowing clouds of smoke visible over Cape Town. The fire broke out on Tuesday, and while firefighters managed to get another fire at Franschhoek under control, the Du Toitskloof Fire has continued to blaze, with strong winds […]