The travel time between Maputo and Kosi Bay has just been DRASTICALLY reduced… from six hours to 90 minutes! Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi today officially opened the new road that connects Maputo and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. It includes a 3km twin-tower suspension bridge – Ponte Maputo-Catembe or Maputo-Catembe Bridge – that extends 680 m […]

While fires raged across the scenic Garden Route in South Africa this month, our country’s firefighters left their own husbands, wives, parents and children behind to help rescue and ensure the safety of other South African families. For over eight days, these brave men and women lived together in makeshift conditions in Rosemore Stadium in […]

The 16th Penguin Festival was held this morning at Seaforth Beach in Simon’s Town… where Nigel Riley captured the ‘waddle to freedom’ of 21 rehabilitated African penguins as they were released back into the wild ocean. The liberation was made even more special for one penguin that had been at a Sanctuary for a whole […]

SUN CITY – There’s hope that South African Louis Oosthuizen could win the tournament currently being played at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City, in SA. Home favourite Oosthuizen produced a strong back nine today to card a five-under-par 67 and trail leader Sergio Garcia by one shot at the halfway stage of […]

In the world of smartphones, China has Huawei, Korea has Samsung, while the United States of America has Apple. And soon South Africa will have Mara! Long-time dark horse Africa is now taking centre stage with the announcement of the Mara phone project that is touted to take the smartphone business by storm. Developed by […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s Discovery Ltd said on Thursday it will issue about 10.9 million new shares to qualifying investors in order to raise R1.85 billion ($132 million) to help fund an acquisition of a stake and assets in soon to be launched Discovery bank. Discovery, which offers health, life and car insurance, was granted […]

This week’s episode of popular South African current affairs show, Carte Blanche, features E-Tolls, Saving Burn Victims, Codeine Cocktail Addiction and an Ermelo Investment Horror. If you’re a South African living abroad – subscribe to Showmax to watch from Tuesday 13 November (14-day Free Trial). E-Tolls: on the Road Again During Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s medium-term […]

PARIS – South Africa’s rugby coach Rassie Erasmus has added experience in key kicking positions in his backline for the test against France in Paris on Saturday, with the inclusion of England-based duo Willie le Roux and Faf de Klerk. The pair missed last weekend’s 12-11 loss to England at Twickenham as the fixture fell […]

South African Airways (SAA) has been named the African Long-Haul Airline winner in the prestigious Business Traveller Africa magazine awards. The awards, which were launched in 2012, are targeted at the South African business travel trade and the broader business travel community. SAA clinched the top award last week, as its future has been hotly […]

South African journalist Angela Quintal and her Kenyan colleague Muthoki Mumo, who were mysteriously detained by law enforcement officials at their hotel in Tanzania last night, have been released. “South African journalist Angela Quintal and colleague are back in their hotel. They are safe and are now with the High Commissioner of South Africa, Thami […]

Trevor Noah’s mom, Patricia, isn’t into fame. As Trevor told an audience member of ‘The Daily Show’ this week: “She has no interest in television or any of these things that I do. She just loves the fact that I can pay the rent, and she loves me for who I am.” But Patricia Noah […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa will hold parliamentary elections sometime between May 7 and August 5 next year, the Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson announced on Wednesday… increasing the likelihood that the vote will be in May, which is President Cyril Ramaphosa’s preference. A voter registration weekend will be held in January. The commission briefed the media […]

Next year, South Africans will go to the polls in the National Elections to have their say in the country’s future. Most South Africans abroad still care passionately about their country and their loved ones back home, and while they may have many different reasons for being overseas, they still deserve to be able to […]

Many people do not know that the two minutes silence and its association to Armistice Day (11th hour of 11/11) or Remembrance Sunday has a South African origin. It is one of our greatest gifts to humankind, yet most South Africans are completely oblivious of it… writes Peter Dickens. The featured image above, taken in […]

A KwaZulu-Natal school has made waves at an international water conservation competition, winning two top awards. Representing South Africa at the Water Explorer 2018 in London last month, Ebomvini Primary School, received the Innovation and Students’ Choice awards. Learners from 11 participating countries including Turkey, Germany and Malta, agreed that Ebomvini’s projects were creative. They […]

Dan Plato has been elected as Cape Town’s new mayor during a special council sitting on Tuesday… and has already outlined his vision for the Mother City. Plato clinched the top spot by a majority, receiving 146 votes in council. His election follows the stepping down by former mayor Patricia De Lille. Plato thanked those […]

COPENHAGEN – South African police on Monday arrested a Danish woman accused of stealing 111 million crowns ($17 million) of Danish government funds intended for the most vulnerable in society, the Danish state prosecutor for financial crime said. The case, seen by many Danes as a symbol of the decline in confidence in once trusted […]

PARIS – Scrumhalf Faf de Klerk has answered an SOS from South Africa’s coach Rassie Erasmus and joined the Springbok squad for their test against France in Paris on Saturday, adding significant experience in a problem position for the side. De Klerk (who has 20 Test caps) was initially rested for the November internationals which, […]

PERTH – Dale Steyn claimed two early wickets as South Africa’s pace attack combined superbly to heap more misery on Australia with a six-wicket thrashing to take a 1-0 lead in their three-match one-day international series on Sunday. It was brilliantly executed in front of Proudly South African expats who cheered their team on to […]

This week’s Carte Blanche features exclusive footage from the Krugersdorp Murder Trial, one of South Africa’s most outrageous murder sprees… led by a high-school mother, who involved her own children in the killings. South Africa’s also at the forefront again of pioneering medical research. There are beetles threatening Johannesburg’s famous landscape – known as one […]

LONDON  – South Africa’s formidable forwards can lay the platform to topple England in their opening match of the November international series at Twickenham on Saturday, captain Siya Kolisi believes. The Springboks selected an experienced and muscular pack, arguably their first-choice selection, and a backline with plenty of flair but one that is light on […]

CAPE TOWN – South African researchers say they have made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria, which could one day help reduce global warming emissions by finding a productive use for the ultimate waste product. The grey bricks are produced in a lab over eight days using urine, calcium, […]

JUBA  – Retired South African Colonel William Endley was released from prison in South Sudan on Friday, with his face showing the pure joy – and relief – to have escaped the death sentence he was given earlier this year. Endley was one of two associates of rebel leader Riek Machar whom South Sudan freed […]

A young South African pilot is taking the internet by STORM! Tumi Carter Katisi’s story – about her dream to fly for South African Airways – went viral within a couple of hours, after it was posted on Facebook by Humans of New York (which is posting stories from Johannesburg at the moment). Within four […]

For my Sister, on the day she immigrates… writes Jessica Galloway. I want you to know that it’s hard and heavy some days. All the skype sessions in the world cannot come close to mom’s chocolate brownies… I want you to know that the hard days wont last forever. But they need to be lived. Leaving […]