At least three trucks (some reports say five) were torched near Mooi River Plaza on Easter Monday in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, causing traffic chaos and blocking thousands of holiday makers returning from Durban to Johannesburg. UPDATE 30 APRIL 2018: 18 Trucks Torched, 35 Damaged, 54 Arrested in Mooi River Protests, South Africa The N3 was completely […]

Not everyone was amused by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s April Fool’s joke yesterday. The South African born and raised expat, who now lives in the USA, tweeted that his electric car company, Tesla, had gone bankrupt… “completely and totally bankrupt”. Musk tweeted: “Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter […]

Not paying your e-tolls is not a traffic infringement in South Africa, but under the Administrative Adjunction of Road Traffic Offences Act (Aarto) it instead counts as disobeying a road sign. According to Fred Nel, DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Roads and Transport, this means that when the demerit system does come into effect, drivers […]

Twelve British tourists – including two children – were allegedly traumatised after being robbed in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on their way to Swaziland, on Thursday night. Update April 2020: British model Katie Price confirms she was attacked in carjacking incident in South Africa. According to the SABC three of the people were badly injured and […]

Mmusi Maimane, Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), claims the EFF, ANC and UDM coalition have deliberately resorted to “disrupting and attempting to collapse” the Council meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay today… and says this is because “they know they will not win” the Motion of No Confidence against Mayor Athol Trollip. The Council meeting […]

Civil rights watchdog AfriForum has given Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence, 90 days to provide reasons for not acting against Maj. M.V. Mohlala of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) Signal Formation at the Wonderboom Military Base in Pretoria. According to AfriForum, Mohlala published statements are “exceptionally offensive, racist and harmful, and fall […]

The beautiful coastal town of Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa, has been hit by illegal land invasions, property destruction and xenophobic attacks, which started yesterday and are currently ongoing in Zwelihle and the industrial area of the town. See photos and videos below. So far there has been destruction at a public library, police […]

Just like South Africans, when the going gets tough – Australians turn to humour. After the cheating incident at the Australia vs South Africa cricket match at Newlands in Cape Town yesterday, the jokes have come flying in faster than an Aussie cricket ball that’s been tampered with! https://www.facebook.com/uncensoredSA/posts/707915292665551 Jokes aside, Australians have come down […]

Australian cricketers Cameron Bancroft and Captain Steve Smith faced the press at Newlands in South Africa to discuss – and admit – to ball tampering during the third Test against the Proteas on Saturday 24 March 2018. There was no ways they could deny it! Watch this: https://twitter.com/nealcol/status/977572331500556288 Now watch below as the Australian sportsmen […]

The head of the Gauteng Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC), Dr Elias Sithole, says the PDMC remains on high alert amid the heavy downpours. Johannesburg and Pretoria experienced heavy rains that resulted in trees falling, homes becoming submerged, cemetry headstones collapsing and a car being ‘swallowed’ by a large sinkhole in front of the dump […]

After two more farm attacks, including one murder, in the past 48 hours in South Africa, DA Limpopo Provincial Leader Jacques Smalle will write to the Provincial Police Commissioner, Luitenant General Nneke Ledwaba, reiterating the opposition party’s repeated call to capacitate rural safety within the South African Police Service (SAPS) with adequate manpower and resources. “This […]

The world has been shattered by the death of the last male northern white rhino, Sudan… but none more so that one of his close companions, Warden James Mwenda. After Sudan’s death earlier this week at Olpejeta Conservancy in Kenya, James wrote a tribute that has been shared thousands of times. “Good bye Sudan, I […]

The DA said it is horrified to learn of another farm attack in the Free State, South Africa, that resulted in the brutal loss of life of the farm manager at the Brandenburg Farm, in the Ladybrand district. Upon returning home from running errands in town, Tankiso Pharoe (40) and his wife were attacked by […]

A Netwerk24 journalist, Adrian de Kock, was attacked by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu at Parliament on Tuesday morning. The attack was caught on video (watch below) by other journalists waiting for Patricia de Lille’s disciplinary hearing. De Kock explained afterwards that he had approached Shivambu for a comment about the De […]

Helping Rhinos have published a special tribute to Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, which died yesterday 19 March 2018. “Sudan was no ordinary rhino, he was the last male northern white rhino, and without doubt the most famous rhino in the world… Sudan’s passing has been met with an emotional outpouring from far […]

The world has lost its last male northern white rhino. The Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Dvůr Králové Zoo have announced with “great sadness” that 45-year-old Sudan died at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March 19th, 2018 (yesterday). Sudan was being treated for age-related complications that led to degenerative changes in muscles and bones combined […]

South Africa has already witnessed approximately 109 farm attacks and about 15 farm murders since the start of 2018, according to AfriForum. “Our rural areas are trapped in a crime war,” said Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Safety, in a media statement issued on Monday afternoon. “Although the South African government denies that a violence […]

The civil rights organisation AfriForum said today at a media conference in Pretoria that the information which this organisation is currently spreading in the international community on expropriation without compensation and farm murders, is based on facts that confirm that there is a serious threat to property rights and human lives in South Africa. This […]

  So the following viral riddle on Facebook – with prism shapes, bananas and a clock – has been driving a few people a little crazy, especially those who finished school a few years ago!  By popular demand – here is the answer… please scroll down: The riddle’s answer is: 15 (the number of sides […]

The members of Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) in South Africa were meant to be lining the route of the Cape Town Carnival today, as guests of the Western Cape Government, in honour of their amazing efforts during the horrific #KnysnaFires. But the volunteer firefighters could not make it because they were too busy, together with […]

Here’s this week’s Carte Blanche line-up, available for South Africans in SA on Sunday and for expats from Tuesday on Showmax International. Illegal Land Invasions Illegal land invasions across Gauteng are causing widespread panic, amidst continued political discussions about land expropriation without compensation. President Ramaphosa has made it clear that nobody has the right to illegally […]

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has been given today as a deadline to submit a full report on an attack on one of its female drivers after a train was vandalised on Tuesday evening. A female driver was stripped naked, hit with a brick and dragged into nearby bushes as part of […]

The community of Eshowe in South Africa took to the streets last night and in the early hours of the morning today, burning farms, following the murder of 30-year-old Gift Sphamandla Xulu… a young man who went fishing with friends on a farm, without the necessary permission. The furious burning of sugar fields and stoning […]

The National Commissioner of Police, General Khehla John Sitole has called upon the community of the Umlalazi, Eshowe and surrounding areas to be calm and tolerant following the killing of one of its community members. Yesterday, two young men, one of them being 30-year-old Spamandla Xulu, were fishing in a dam on the Gqobhokani farm. […]

A man has been filmed riding a shopping trolley at around 60km per hour down a residential road in Durban, South Africa! Local uMgeni Park resident, Terry Lewis, uploaded the video with the title: “60km per hour on a shopping trolley. Only in Africa.” According to his caption on YouTube, Terry filmed the footage just […]