On Monday charges were laid at the South African Police Service (SAPS) by AfriForum against the Tshwane Metro, Proco Management, Linked Thoughts Consulting and Faragamo Trading. The civil rights organisation said this follows Proco Management, Linked Thoughts Consulting and Faragamo Trading acting as go-between when three farms were sold to the Metro at prices significantly […]

A fire whipped through a train at Glencairn railway station in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday 7 October, damaging at least four coaches. Local award-winning photographic journalist Rob Tarr was on the scene to capture the photos on this page. Rob, who has a home nearby, told SAPeople: “I was alerted to the train […]

Ex-South African president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane denied wrongdoing at a graft inquiry on Monday, rejecting testimony by an official who said he was offered a bribe and a ministerial post at a meeting where Duduzane was present. Duduzane Zuma is a key witness at the so-called “state capture” inquiry set up last year to test […]

MUMBAI – Fast bowler Mohammed Shami picked up a five-wicket haul while left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took four in South Africa’s second innings to bowl India to a comprehensive 203-run victory in the opening test at Visakhapatnam on Sunday. Chasing an improbable 395 for a win, South Africa, resuming the final day on 11 for […]

The Heineken beer company has agreed to remove an Amstel billboard and plant 50 trees in Johannesburg after a social media campaign against the company took off after it pruned trees – pruned them so badly, in fact, the trees will probably die – so that the billboard could be better viewed. Jo Buitendach, who […]

Tragically over 60,000 sheep from South Africa have set sail on a three-week journey to the Middle East. Most will suffer, some may die, along the way in overcrowded conditions that Carte Blanche said could only be described as “cruel and vile, to say the very least”. The sheep are forced to stand in their […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s struggling state-owned defence company, which had to be bailed out by the government last August, suffered an operating loss of R1.9 billion rand ($125 million) for the year to March 31, it said on Friday. Denel, which makes military kit for the South African armed forces and clients in Africa, the […]

Queenstown in the Eastern Cape might be out of water, if rain does not fall and the Xonxa water project is not finished very soon. According to Chris Hani District Municipality spokesperson Thobeka Mqamelo, Waterdown dam, the only one supplying this town and Whittlesea, was 28,6% full in the week of 23 September. This time […]

GAUTENG – A 34-year-old man was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport, after being found in possession of 12 boxes of lion bones. According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), Members of the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime unit, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) SWAT unit and Crime Intelligence intercepted a suspicious consignment on Tuesday. […]

The prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, paid more than $16 million to a South African swimwear model, Carien van der Merwe, after they had “a romantic relationship” in the Seychelles several years ago, according to a report in an American newspaper. In a New York Times story published three days ago, with the headline […]

HONG KONG – Two flight attendants from South African Airways have been arrested and have appeared in court in Hong Kong, reportedly for smuggling cocaine worth more than $23 million into the territory, in the biggest drug-trafficking case of its kind there in the last decade. South African Airways spokesman Tlali Tlali confirmed on SABC […]

Springboks rugby player Eben Etzebeth could face legal action over an alleged assault after the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said on Wednesday it would ask the country’s Equality Court to institute proceedings against him. It follows an incident in the coastal town of Langebaan on Aug. 25, during which a man was allegedly racially and […]

A total of 375 people lost their lives on South Africa’s rail network in the year up to March 2019, according to government information released this week. Addressing the media on Tuesday at a railway safety conference in Stellenbosch, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula made public figures contained in the latest State of Safety Report, […]

Around 900 people were tragically left homeless when a fire destroyed nearly 200 shacks in the Pomona informal settlement in Kempton Park, north east of Johannesburg CBD, on Monday night. Watch footage below. Gift of the Givers responded at 2am in the early hours of Tuesday morning, to a call from the local disaster management […]

One person was stabbed and another hit over the head with a brick on Cape Town’s beautiful Camps Bay beach on Monday evening, a spot that is very popular with tourists from South Africa and around the world. This comes just days after a University of Cape Town (UCT) student was fatally stabbed on Clifton’s […]

The Karoo Donkey Sanctuary sprawls over 18 hectares at the base of the Swartberg Mountains only two kilometres outside Prince Albert. Capetonians Jonno Sherwin and his partner Dr Johan Hugo bought the land in 2012 after falling in love with the area during a 2008 visit… writes Julienne du Toit from KarooSpace. The Sanctuary  URGENTLY […]

Cash-strapped consumers will have to dig even deeper into their pockets as the price of petrol is set to increase by 18 cents a litre next week. Announcing the price changes on Sunday, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy said a litre of 95 (ULP and LRP) will rise by 18 cents a litre […]

Every morning just after 3AM, a group of Soweto men leave their beds and homes, sound vuvuzelas to announce their arrival and escort community members safely on their way to work. Tonight these incredible heroes are featured on Carte Blanche: Watch Sun 15 Dec on DStv Now if you’re in South Africa, or stream from Tues 17 […]

Extreme weather hit parts of southern Africa in the past 24 hours with heavy rain and flash floods in areas of South Africa, and snow in Lesotho. Watch the incredible video below, filmed by Dana du Plessis, which shows the Keisies River in Montagu, Western Cape, as it starts to flow again! Storm Report SA […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Meghan, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, has tied a ribbon at the site in Cape Town where a student was murdered last month, in a gesture of solidarity with those who have taken a stand against gender-based violence. Uyinene Mrwetyana (Nene) was raped and murdered in a Cape Town […]

In a great display of making the most of things, some innovative South African drivers were filmed capitalising on a burst water pipe alongside a road. Watch videos below. Vehicles – including taxis – can be seen manoeuvring their cars to make sure they get the shiniest car wash! Three videos of the scene were […]

Some of Cape Town’s rivers and canals are so polluted they are essentially open streams of sewage, and although the City of Cape Town is aware of this, the water and waste directorate has vastly underspent its budget for the past two financial years. Participants in the annual Peninsula Paddle, an event organised by scientists […]

We were making progress until 2011. So what happened? Uyinene Mrwetyana’s murder set off a wave of protests across the country. The release of the latest crime statistics confirmed perceptions: South Africa is becoming more violent; the number of murders has increased every year since 2012. When it comes to crime stats, murder is a […]

A traffic officer in Ekurhuleni was suspended today, shortly after two videos of him apparently drunk on the job and trying to hand over his service revolver to a colleague went viral. Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Marina said today he had seen the videos and the chief of police “has decided to suspend both the drunk […]

Barely a few days after a video of a public brawl in South Africa went viral, there’s a bare-bones music video out lampooning the original video and its famous line, “Hugo, bel die polisie!” The video is done by Ashwin Ash Le Breton, a dance teacher in Port Elizabeth known for his work with the […]