We all saw the SONA jokes and memes (like the one below) shared on social media after President Jacob Zuma delivered the State of the Nation Address on Thursday evening… but there are three other pictures  that are proving even more popular than the jokes. Pravin The first is a photo shared by SAPeople early this […]

A deaf four-month-old baby in Cape Town has become one of the youngest people in the world to get a cochlear implant, allowing her to hear for the first time, it was reported this week. The operation on Neave Barrett was carried out at the Vergelegen Mediclinic in Somerset West by a team from the Tygerberg Hospital Stellenbosch University Cochlear […]

When the Eastern Cape Department of Education failed to provide their children with a school, a group of parents in Gotyibeni in Xhorha took matters into their own hands. In 1994, Gotyibeni residents decided they needed a primary school for their children. Other primary schools were far from the area and children had to wait […]

Thursday was one of those rare hot, wind free, incredible summer days in Cape Town. I was in the air by 8am and spent nearly three hours flying along the coast, photographing our amazing marine wildlife. The dusky dolphins were playing along the Blouberg shores, Table Bay was filled with baitballs and frenetic feeding activity and […]

You could call it a Johannesburg hat trick. The latest travel pages of the British Guardian newspaper have posted a trio of major articles about the City of Gold, including 1) some fantastic readers’ pictures of the city shared on Instagram, 2) the paper’s own alternative guide and 3) some insightful readers’ tips. Here’s a taste of the […]

Kite boarders from 11 nations waited for the windiest day for the perfect conditions to fly high – and on Wednesday and Thursday they got it. “With iconic Table Mountain as backdrop – both wind and sea delivered some pumping conditions,” said the organisers of the Red Bull King of the Air 2016 competition. Watch some […]

BLOEMFONTEIN – Only three days after President Jacob Zuma’s case over Nkandla and whether he should #PayBackTheMoney came before the Constitutional Court, his lawyer is back arguing, in Bloemfontein this time, over the government’s decision not to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he was visiting the country in 2015. The adversaries in court, even though they […]

President Jacob Zuma might want to move Parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria to cut costs – many of which some would say have been created by himself and a bloated, inefficient government – but we have found a few reasons why maybe it might not be a bad idea. Pretoria needs the attention, Cape Town doesn’t. Pretoria […]

The latest Vanity Fair cover is an annual event where the most talked-about stars in movies grace the cover, and one of them is Gugu Mbatha-Raw, whose father is South African and whose name is actually short for Gugulethu. Mbatha-Raw was born in Witney, a rural and typically quaint Oxfordshire town, of a South African doctor […]

Nando’s South Africa has done it again. No sooner had President Jacob Zuma delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) Thursday evening, than the successful South African restaurant chain – famous for its chicken peri-peri – had posted an advert making fun of Speaker Baleka Mbete. “We see you Baleka. #SONA2016” the message says on Nando’s […]

It’s the tweet that keeps on retweeting. Six years on and people are still sharing Ed Sheeran’s twitter post from the night he was at a house party in London, surrounded by South Africans – who, like many expats abroad – were clearly teaching him some SA slang and swear words. On Thursday night ‘kief’ South African […]

There are a lot of #ZumaMustFall protesting and tweeting going on around, so we thought we would count up the different ways the words are being used, and where. 1. On chests 2. Anywhere you can put a sticker 3. On placards 4, On buildings 5. In songs 6. On computers 7. On the nearest mountain 8. In […]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day – here’s South African domestic and DIY (and Greek) goddess SuzelleDIY with the perfect recipe for love – a ‘heart tart’ (also known as a mille-feuille in French, which means a thousand leaves). Full Recipe transcript below! You will need: 4 Layers of puff pastry 1 punnet of raspberries […]

It’s Valentine’s Day on Sunday…and one of the most romantically inspiring posts on facebook at the moment is that in which a young man from Rustenburg has described an encounter he had two days ago with an elderly gentleman, which left him believing in true love. Karabo John Moa – whose post has been shared over 5,000 […]

South African professional offroad motorcycle rider Wade Young has landed his first major European extreme enduro win with victory at Hell’s Gate in Italy. Young, who became the youngest winner of the Roof of Africa four years ago at the age of 16, delivered a near flawless performance racing for Sherco, in Italy, to seal a […]

In an interview with The New York Times, South African photographer Chris Saunders says his love of the pantsula dance culture stems from its spontaneous and makeshift energy and the positive message the dance’s champions are trying to spread. Pantsula originated in the townships of South Africa during apartheid. Modern pantsula dance moves have turned into a […]

Through his lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett, President Zuma conceded Tuesday that the Public Protector’s findings into security upgrades at his Nkandla homestead were in fact binding. He accepted that the recommendations constitute administrative action and, as there was no judicial review, the South African president is bound by the recommendations as a matter of administrative justice. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said […]

It doesn’t look like this monkey is going to get up to any monkey business during the Chinese Year of the Monkey, which ends on 27 January 2017. This video, filmed at Twala Trust Animal Sanctuary in Zimbabwe, has gone viral on the internet this week at the same time as people around the world celebrate […]

Ever since Durban’s tremor over the weekend, social media has been abuzz with talk of a new African continent in the making! It turns out that the Somali Plate – which has a fault line stretching from the East African Rift southwards down through South Africa and exiting through Durban – is slowly breaking away…and […]

Twenty-five days to go to the Cape Town Cycle Tour – formerly known as “The Argus” – which is the largest timed bike race in the world. Lots of riders will be coming to Cape Town from other cities and from overseas. A limit of 35,000 entrants has been set for the 109-kilometre race around the […]

“It’s hell to try and get a concert ready in such a short period of time, but it’s important that we are a part of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival,” says Rosemary Nalden, the founder and conductor of Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble, arguably South Africa’s most important musical incubator which, based in Diepkloof, Soweto, trains […]

What a gorgeous picture – Zola Budd and Mary Decker at the Los Angeles Coliseum in the USA, 32 years after that fateful race that changed Budd’s life forever. The former South African barefoot runner posted the photo on her facebook page on Sunday, saying: “Mary and me at LA Coliseum after more than 30 years!!! […]

Competing with the famous Midmar Mile in KwaZulu-Natal, the Cape Mile went off with a big splash on Saturday at the Eikenhof Dam near Grabouw in the Western Cape, and Tobias Ginsberg caught the anticipation, excitement and speed of an open-water swim in his series of photographs. The Sanlam-sponsored event (shown in a great video at the end) has […]

There were some spectacular scenes Sunday at the second and final round of the Red Bull King of the Air competition at Big Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. MANIE VAN DER HOVEN from JustASurferDude.co.za and VICTOR TEIXEIRA were there to capture these awesome photos of the kiteboarders in action. “The wind and wave conditions were perfect and […]