A brave – and petrified – woman in South Africa refused to be a victim of an attempted armed robbery in Cape Town yesterday. The unnamed female driver took matters into her own hands, reversing away from the perpetrators and crashing into three other cars as she made her successful escape. According to 1Second Facebook page, […]

NORTH WEST – Eight suspects, including farmers, were arrested on Sunday in South Africa for the alleged illegal possession of game products that ranged from lion bones and meat to tiger’s skin in what has been described as South Africa’s “dirty & shameful predator bone smuggling racket”… which had allegedly been ongoing for years, under […]

After reading South African comedian Trevor Noah’s best-selling memoir ‘Born a Crime’,  many people were left with more questions than answers… like “what happened to Teddy?” Teddy was Trevor’s best friend in primary school. During childhood they would shoplift together… until they were bust one day. They ran like the wind but Teddy was caught. […]

JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill into law today… setting a minimum of R20 per hour for the majority of SA’s workers. The new bill has been introduced to tackle wage inequality and will raise the earnings of an estimated six million South Africans, more than half of […]

Trevor Noah is joining the #GivingTuesdaySA initiative by pledging up to R2-million to assist schools across South Africa through his Trevor Noah Foundation (TNF), which he founded last year. In a Facebook message to South Africa, Trevor said: Hey South Africa, In the spirit of #GivingTuesdaySA I will be matching all donations to The Trevor […]

Thousands of worshippers from different races, religions and cultures gathered together at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg today for the 2018 National Day of Prayer for all South Africans. They prayed for unity among South Africans of all races and languages, for the creation of jobs, equality of opportunity and the provision of quality education and […]

While the rest of South Africa is talking about land reform, billionaire businessman Johann Rupert is getting on with actually doing it. On 3 December, in Stellenbosch, Rupert and and his wife Gaynor will present more than 326 title deeds that they have sponsored to the ‘new’ home owners, according to a media release from Free […]

South African expat rugby winger DTH (Daniel Tailliferre Hauman) van der Merwe scored two tries for Canada on Friday, ensuring that Canada has now booked its place at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Scoring two out of the team’s three tries, van der Merwe’s effort took Canada to a 27-10 victory over Hong […]

South Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, has been awarded an international Doctorate of Business Administration by the prestigious Henley School of Business, University of Reading in the UK. Henley School of Business said they were delighted to announce the award for Gordhan, and that “he is the first South African to receive this […]

Bridgetown’s “Robot Man” sits at a little table outside his house in the Western Cape, filled with pieces of scrap from a nearby dump site. Near him is his latest creation, Robot 5 (R5) which took about two months to build. Made from items like the straps from a child’s shoe, a piece of rubber, […]

South African videographer Richard van Schalkwyk is on a mission to get English musician Ed Sheeran to view this video of Rosina Kaseke singing a Zulu version of Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’… Van Schalkwyk would love to see Kaseke join Sheeran on stage during his tour to South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town) in March next year. […]

To celebrate their 25th birthday, Engen management and employees embarked on a number of clean-up initiatives around the country – including beach clean-ups in coastal areas and river clean-ups for inland areas. In Cape Town, 100 employees were transported to Blaauwberg Nature Reserve yesterday where they spent the morning cleaning the area to make it […]

This week’s episode of Carte Blanche exposes something wonderful happening in South Africa – young men from the Cape Flats giving hope to farmers! The show also reveals how South African civilians are fighting back against dreaded car jackings, interviews the South African colonel who narrowly escaped death row in South Sudan, now safely home for […]

South Africa will invest $1 billion in South Sudan’s oil sector, which includes the construction of a refinery, says Energy Minister Jeff Radebe. Radebe and his South Sudanese counterpart for petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, announced the investment on Friday. South Sudan’s oil industry is dominated by Asian firms including China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Malaysia’s Petronas and India’s […]

Disney has released the first trailer for the much-anticipated live-action adaptation of The Lion King. Disney tweeted the trailer just over ten hours ago, on the eve of Black Friday, with a short tweet announcing the release date: July 19, 2019. At the same time it aired the advert during the NFL’s annual Thanksgiving primetime […]

There’s a post on Facebook that’s going viral… with a story so amazing that it’s hard to believe it’s true… but for once, this story is! Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler were on opposite sides during the Second World War. Their paths crossed on 20 December 1943 and one of them should have been killed… but […]

South Africans are renowned for their own brand of humour… and even when it comes to a global event like Black Friday, South Africans have been creating their own unique jokes and memes to make fun of the day when shops slash prices. Even though Black Friday may have originated in the US (the day […]

Comedian Trevor Noah reveals exactly what it’s like to be a South African expat in the US in his new show – learning a whole new way of pronouncing words you thought you knew (like ‘water’), replacing words like ‘serviette’ with ‘napkin’ and discovering that their favourite food is actually not American, but ironically Mexican […]

South Africa’s former Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, has been awarded the highest tribute Germany can pay to an individual. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier bestowed Germany’s Great Order of Merit (or Federal Cross of Merit) upon Adv Madonsela on Tuesday, during his state visit to South Africa. He said: “Thuli Madonsela, you teach us how […]

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife veterinarian, Dr Dave Cooper, is the 2018 recipient of the Wild Tomorrow Fund’s Umvikeli Wildlife Protector Award. The award is for his lifetime of dedication to the care, management and conservation of rhinos and other wild animals in Africa… reports Larry Bentley from the Zululand Observer. The award recognises an individual or organisation […]

South Africans always make the best commercials, and the latest ‘Zero Bucks’ ad from Showmax is one of the classics… going viral with over 330,000 views in just a couple of weeks. One Capetonian viewer Chris Mackerdush wrote on YouTube: “Guys this ad is f..king outstanding. I’m in the ad industry and cynical as a bastard […]

St John’s DSG in Pietermaritzburg – the ‘small school with the big heart’ – has proved its teachers really are big-hearted, with a behind-the-scenes video that will melt your heart. The KwaZulu-Natal school posted the video on Tuesday morning for parents, saying: If you have ever wondered where our teachers are – and what they […]

We have fantastic news as Cape Town artist, Jeremy Olivier, has released one of the most Proudly South African albums in a long time AND he is also making dreams come true for one lucky person who loves SA’s beautiful Rainbow Nation as passionately as he does. (See competition details below, or go ahead and […]

Rassie Erasmus, the SA Director of Rugby, praised the growing maturity of the Springboks following their hard-fought 26-20 victory win over a good very Scotland team in front of a capacity crowd at BT Murrayfield in Edinburgh on Saturday evening. The South Africans held a small halftime lead (20-17) over the enterprising Scots after a […]

Coming Up on Carte Blanche this week is the future of Durban’s iconic beachfront amidst escalating crime, bio farming, hijacked buildings and South Africa’s genius children. If you’re a South African living abroad – subscribe to Showmax to watch from Tuesday 20th November (14-day Free Trial). Goodbye Durban? Holidays are approaching with an estimated 2-million […]