Two South African police officers from Maitland, in Cape Town, were arrested on kidnapping charges, after they grabbed an innocent stranger off the street to replace a prisoner who had escaped under their guard! The shocked, innocent man found himself handcuffed and in a police car, accused of housebreaking and theft, having been switched for […]

Reports submitted by Ndobela Lamola Inc are full of forged documents… By Raymond Joseph and Anton van Zyl Three forensic reports into National Lotteries Commission funding have found no evidence of corruption. The seven-month probe cleared Phillemon Letwaba, who was accused of nepotism in connection with dodgy Lotteries grants, of any wrongdoing. But the reports, […]

SAA, you’ve finally done it… writes (former) South African Airways pilot Phil Parsons. Sixteen months after last paying us and 26 years since hiring me, you’ve pulled the plug and retrenched us all. A sad day indeed. My sadness transcends the beautiful machines I’ve had the privilege of flying or the wide world SAA allowed […]

Purge South Africa is an incredibly hard video to watch. Disturbing. Upsetting. But it’s important, and going viral. It’s what happened in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It’s the harsh reality of what paramedics, police, shop owners, community members and ordinary South Africans faced. Filmmaker Anthony George Kirkwood has bravely and brilliantly filmed the July 2021 events […]

With the recent chaos specifically in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, and the media focus on these areas pertaining to the violent riots and looting, it is easy to get wrapped up in some tunnel vision, focusing exclusively on these events… writes Free State University’s Prof Petrus. The danger of this, of course, is that […]

Tanya Seymour’s Olympic competition is over before it has begun after her horse, Ramoneur, suffered a debilitating case of laminitis, which results in a painful swelling and inflammation of the hoof (foot)… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo, Japan. The 37-year-old Seymour, who made equestrian history at Rio 2016 when she became the first dressage rider […]

It’s the end of an era as RX Venue Management announced today “with a heavy heart” that after 20 years of being the management company of South Africa’s largest multipurpose indoor arena, The Ticketpro Dome has now been sold by the owners, Sasol Pension Fund, to a third party which does not operate in the […]

South Africa has reported three positive cases of Covid-19 amongst its team at the Olympic Village in Tokyo. Team Manager Mxolisi Sibam said in a SAFA (South African Football Association) press release on Sunday that “we have three positive cases of COVID-19 in the camp here, two players and an official”. The two football players […]

Ozzy Man, the Australian reviewer who has become famous worldwide for his pull-no-punches reviews of just about anything (and always packed with swear words) has delivered the following classic about a hapless looter during the recent looting spree in South Africa. In typical Ozzy Man style, the review is a “bloody tellin’ it straight, no […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the violence experienced in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – characterised by looting, property destruction and loss of life – was an attempted insurrection that failed to gain popular support. “It has failed because of the efforts of our security forces, and it has failed because South Africans have […]

In the frenetic, desperate sharing of any post people can find to make sense of the devastation of the past few days, there are many which are wonderful, heartwarming and inspiring… but also a few which are not quite true. Two of the most popular posts in fact, are not genuine. The first is a […]

The DA says it will lay charges of treason and terrorism against the alleged ANC instigators of the unrest that led to wide-spread looting and destruction in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng. “The DA has seen WhatsApp chats between individuals who have identified themselves as being part of a number of ANC branches in KwaZulu-Natal […]

The Durban warehouse belonging to FoodForward SA was ransacked on Tuesday, prompting the organisation to close all its branches in five cities, leaving some 675,000 people without the food it supplies. More than 125,000 vulnerable people depend on the food sourced from the Durban warehouse, according to FoodForward SA’s fund development manager, Deidre Adams. She said looters […]

While some South African residents have described the sounds of shotguns keeping them awake at night, during the last few days of violent protests, here Viv Vermaak in Gauteng eloquently describes the sounds of insomnia giving her and so many other South Africans sleepless nights… Sounds of Insomnia – by Viv Vermaak Everything is so […]

After days of looting, shopping malls being desecrated and highways blocked, South Africans in hard-hit parts of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng are having to queue for hours for food and fuel, raising the risk of further riots as more people could face starvation. In Durban North there’s a queue over 3km long for Checkers. People […]

I’m so deeply disturbed by what I have seen over the past few days… writes photographer Kierran Allen Photography All these clips (below) were shot today 14/07/2021, just incase people think this is not real, this is the raw truth! Spread this video far and wide. South Africa is on fire. Watch video below. Billions […]

The South African Emergency Personnel’s Union (SAEPU) has strongly condemned the attitude of protesters who involve innocent emergency personnel workers in their protest by attacking them. The union has called for calm as the country is experiencing violence and looting not seen in many years. Yesterday a crew from Chiawelo base in Soweto, Gauteng, was […]

Seventy-two people have as of Tuesday evening died in the ongoing destruction and looting of businesses and violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The number of those arrested in the unrest has risen to 1 234. Tuesday saw more boots on the ground with the deployment of members the South African National Defence Force and […]

South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see just one thing: would Jacob Zuma blink? Would the country finally get some taste of revenge for the state capture, looting, destruction of institutions and threats to the country’s […]

Over 5,000 people have already signed a petition set up by a South African expat to help her countrymen back home in SA. A resident in Durban has asked SAPeople readers to please sign and share the petition. KZN resident Nikki Ross wrote after midnight, saying: “I’m in Durban, trying to fall asleep with gunshots […]

The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry says as organised businesses they “urgently call upon President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a State of Emergency in the province of KwaZulu Natal, as this disorderly behaviour continues to spiral out of control”. Violent protests have rocked the province since the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma late […]

South Africa detected 11 182 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, while 220 more people succumbed to the illness. The country now has 2 206 781 laboratory-confirmed infections and 64 509 deaths, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said. Of the latest cases, 50% of were recorded in Gauteng (5 614), 11% in the Western Cape (1 225), 9% […]

Looting and protests from the weekend continued in Alexandra, Johannesburg, on Monday. Reports initially linked the protests to calls for the release from prison of former President Jacob Zuma. Spaza shop owner Sayabo Wodimu lost all his stock and some of his equipment. “I don’t know what I did to deserve this. My shop is the […]

I am completely lost for words, I have been a photographer for 16 years and covered many protests around the country but this is just on a whole new level… writes Durban photographer Kierran Allen, after filming at Watercrest Mall in Waterfall, KZN, South Africa. I don’t want to get into the details of what […]

An intense cold front has hit South Africa today, bringing with it gale force winds, flooding and some snow. As predicted by the SA Weather Service (SAWS), the cold front has made landfall in the Southern Cape and is expected to cross the country overnight and cause temperatures to plummet in Gauteng tomorrow. ‘Serious Flooding’ […]