Team South Africa’s 2016 Paralympic Games campaign took another step forward in Rio de Janeiro close to midnight on Wednesday (SA time) with a spectacular opening ceremony. The ceremony was at the iconic Maracana Stadium, the same stadium used for the Olympic Games last month. Over the course of 11 days just over 4,000 athletes from […]

I come home to find Samson under the big tree in the front garden. He’s made a fire and looks disgruntled that I am so late. Those were the days before I installed the security gate. The days only schizophrenic dwarfy hobos with a moerse houding would dare to sneak onto your property while you […]

Friends, family and colleagues have reached out to South African doctor and swimmer Karon (Kiki) Marx for her incredible achievement of attempting to swim the English Channel… and continuing against all odds until she was forced, just before the end, to leave the water. It must have been heartbreaking, after months of preparation, to have […]

There’s so much to see and do in Cape Town that two vloggers have decided instead of cramming it into one travel video, to rather embark on a brilliant series called ‘This is Cape Town’. The first video – watch below – features the city centre. It’s fun, fast, fascinating, uplifting and is sure to make […]

Dreams do come true! On social media! There have been a lot of #ProudlySouthAfrican and #ProudlyCapetonians on Twitter in the past 24 hours since American singer Meghan Trainor responded to a South African video performed to her hit “Me Too”. The awesome video, showcasing South Africa’s talent, went viral rapidly and has had over 670,000 views on YouTube […]

It’s quite clear to see that South African supermodel Candice Swanepoel is eight-months pregnant! Candice, who is engaged to Brazilian Hermann Nicoli, uploaded a photo to Instagram a couple of days ago… showing her beautiful – and very large – bare belly. This will be the Victoria’s Secret Angel’s first baby. And it looks like […]

Olympic medallist and 800m world record breaker Wayde van Niekerk has returned home to a modest welcome from fans… and a new Audi. He said he hopes to not get too many fines for speeding in it… Odessa Swarts and Elsie Simbine having a chat while waiting for the arrival of their sons at OR […]

Check out these awesome photos of the Mother City from the air, taken by ANGELA GORMAN PHOTOGRAPHY. “Cape Town is even more beautiful from above!” says Angela. “What an incredible experience viewing Cape Town from a helicopter!” Angela took to the skies with NAC Helicopters Cape Town at early morning light… An iconic shot of Table Mountain… […]

CAPE TOWN – Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) Deputy Director-General Joe de Beer says the country’s headline figure, the real gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 3.3% in the second quarter of 2016. This is after the real GDP production decreased by 1.2% in the first quarter. “The main contributors to the GDP growth rate were […]

Here’s the first look at South African comedian Trevor Noah‘s new book “Born a Crime”, out November 15th. Noah announced back in January that he had signed a deal with publisher Spiegel & Grau because “I couldn’t find a good book about myself, so I decided to write one”. The book is a collection of 18 […]

South Africa’s world record-breaking athlete Wayde van Niekerk, his coach Ans Botha, and fellow Olympic athlete Akani Simbine are arriving back in South Africa Wednesday morning! If you’d like to be there to welcome the Olympic heroes, they’re on flight AF990 which is due to touch down at OR Tambo International Airport at 09h55. It’s […]

PRETORIA – The Mayor of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga, has continued his impressive Magufuli-esque cost-cutting campaign… announcing today that he has put an immediate stop to all purchases or leasing of luxury cars for politicians and senior officials. Msimanga says: “A Hundai i20 or Toyota Corolla can do the same job for a politican as an […]

A Capetonian choreographer’s mission to show American singer songwriter Meghan Trainor just how talented South Africans are, is taking off RAPIDLY… with his video going viral so fast, it’s clocking up views quicker than you can say “it’s all about the bass”. Although this isn’t about the bass. It’s about awesome South African talent. And it’s a […]

The days of queuing at the Home Affairs offices may become a thing of the past very soon. Through Home Affairs’ online application system and partnership with banks, applying for a smart ID card has become a little easier… unless you’re a South African abroad or you were born overseas (in which case – for […]

South Africa’s Chad le Clos and Russia’s Yulia Efimova were honoured Sunday as the best swimmers of the FINA Moscow meet this weekend, with Le Clos now in possession of nine Gold, two Silver and one Bronze in the Swimming World Cup series 2016 at the end of Cluster 1 (Paris, Berlin, Moscow). Le Clos won his third […]

An exhibition by South African artist Portchie has opened to great enthusiasm at La Galleria Pall Mall in London, UK. The opening night, on 1 September 2016, was a huge success with a crowd of over 300 art fans and several fantastic sales. Portchie, who grew up in the Free State, reported on Facebook that “people loved the layout […]

A dog in South Africa has given birth to the first documented identical twin puppies. Apparently, apart from humans and one species of armadillo, identical twins are exceptionally rare. The Irish Wolfhound’s puppies were delivered by vet Kurt de Cramer, who works at Rant en Dal Animal Hospital in Mogale City, Gauteng; and verified as monozygotic (identical) twins by experts […]

After their brilliant performance in Berlin, South Africa’s golden boys Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos have scooped more gold at the Fina World Cup 2016 in Moscow! Van der Burgh raced to victory in the 50m Breastroke to claim his 51st World Cup, with a winning time of 25.88 “Would never have dreamed when […]

JOHANNESBURG – Proudly South Africa has launched a #MeetTheLocals campaign as part of their “buy local” drive… and one of the first companies to be introduced is BMW. In a series of #MeetTheLocals tweets over the past two days Proudly SA has introduced BMW, and applauded the company for: being the first @BMWGroup plant to be established […]

Condé Nast Traveller readers have had their say and the fourth best country on the planet to travel to, according to these seasoned travellers, is South Africa… particularly because of our Rand! The annual Travel Awards asks its readers to rate their favourite countries based on various criteria including food, accommodation, scenery, value for money. The readers […]

Nando’s has done it again… with an advert that makes fun of the South African politics of the day, this time stepping into the SARSWars fray! Just after Cabinet announced Friday that they stand behind Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, Nando’s fired it up with an advert pledging their support too. Gordhan’s future has been in the news as special police […]

Check out photographer Mark Harley’s awesome photo, captured at South Africa’s legendary surf spot – Dungeons – yesterday morning. The picture – featuring local Andrew Marr – was chosen as Global Wave of the Day by the World Surf League (WSL). The WSL Wave Awards on Facebook acknowledges the achievements of the world’s finest surfers in […]

Springbok Francois Hougaard was rewarded for the ultimate act of sportsmanship and team values, by giving away his Olympic Rugby Sevens bronze medal to an injured team mate, when the dual international star was handed an unexpected surprise on Thursday – his own bronze medal. Hougaard was called up to join Team SA’s Rugby Sevens […]

South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Mokgadi Semenya has been thrilled to discover she is now featured in a Chappies ‘Did You Know’ question. The Chappies fact, featured on its wrapper, is that Semenya was the first South African black woman to win an Olympic medal. As any good South African knows – well, as the […]

It was a case of different day but the same result as Rio as Caster Semenya led an Olympic 1-2-3 home in the Diamond League meeting in Zurich, Switzerland on Thursday night. Crowned Olympic 800m champion just 11 days ago, Semenya ran with Swiss precision to clock a winning time of 1min 56.44sec for the […]