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 […]

Team South Africa returned home today from Turkey after an awesome win at the Eurasian Schools Debating Championship (ESDC) 2016. The young South Africans won 9-0 in the Grand Final debate opposing Team Romania on the motion THBT (this house believes that) employers should not require employees to have university degrees. Team Romania congratulated South Africa on […]

The aptly named Crankhandle Club on Sunday began a weeklong series of events showing off some gorgeous vintage and veteran cars on the roads of the Western Cape when it hosted a run out to Kalk Bay in Cape Town, with some of the participants well over a century old. The run out to the village on False […]

South African beauty queen and former Miss World title holder, Rolene Strauss has married the love of her life, D’Niel Strauss (founder of Orientis Venture Capital). The 23-year-old posted the Ecclesiastes 3:1 Biblical passage to her facebook page this morning: “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” She then added […]

A wonderfully caring father has been inspiring South Africans this week since a photo of his morning ritual became popular on Facebook, inspiring others with its Starfish poem-like qualities… The pollution-fighting Western Cape resident has become a bit of a sensation on social media since his proud daughter, Sonja Smith-Janse van Rensburg, posted the following photo […]

Congratulations to South African teenager Leroy Mokgatle who has won the audience choice award and a scholarship at the international ballet competition “Prix de Lausanne” held in Switzerland. Leroy’s prestigious scholarship award is only the second awarded to a South African in the competition’s 44-year history, and the first for SA in 28 years. Non-profit dance […]

Department of Home Affairs (DHA) Director General Mkuseli Apleni said in a statement yesterday that the DHA is on track with the implementation of those Cabinet concessions on immigration rules which were announced in October 2015. These include an extension of the expiry date of the Parental Consent Affidavit, and the future roll-out of South African passports […]

Lots of us have it, a kind of nostalgia-memory about home triggered by the littlest thing. We’ll be somewhere abroad and suddenly see, hear, smell something that reminds us of South Africa. Even New Yorker Sean Evans still gets it after spending only two weeks in the country. In an article in Conde Nast Traveler […]

The innovate site 10and5.com have launched a free Web show that highlights lots of creative things going on in South Africa you might not have heard about. Hidden galleries, music gigs, shops and loads of things to do. “This is our first episode and we’re super excited to share it with you – it’s full of […]

Does anyone know anyone who works at uShaka Marine World and could help make a dream come true for a group of orphaned and vulnerable kids from Gauteng? The children and the staff, from Winnie Mabaso Foundation, are “mega excited” to be heading to Durban in March for the first time in their lives, thanks to […]

ZAAHID APPOLES captured this mesmerising footage – and photos – of the windy seas and clouds over Table Mountain as the legendary “Cape Doctor” paid a visit… Watch Video: Cape Doctor over Table Mountain

For those who can’t make it for a safari trip in South Africa this year, here’s a collection of beautiful photos taken in Weenen Game Reserve during the last weekend of January 2016… All photos were taken by PETER DE GROOT who joined a small group of fellow photographers for a weekend of camping and photography in […]

I had the pleasure of photographing the Secret Sunrise Cape Town experience this morning. Apart from groovy music, silly dancing and creative outfits… the most beautiful moment transpired when one of the instructors put his wireless head phones on a school boy standing by… Moments later, all of the Secret Sunrisers moved towards the school […]

Looking for deeper insight into South Africa – or just a good read? Here are snap reviews of classic South African books, covering everything from non-fiction to fiction to poetry, and featuring a range of the country’s greatest novelists, poets, journalists and historians. (Thanks to South African Book Fair for the main pic.) Non-fiction 1. Long Walk […]

More than R10,000 of donations were sent in by people who saw a TV programme on Wednesday about a woman in Ocean View, Cape Town, who has been called the  Mother Teresa of Animals. Watch the interview with Ingrid de Storie: Not long after Ingrid de Storie’s story aired on TV, people started sending in money, […]

In support of World Cancer Day on 4 February, and the international awareness campaign it promotes, the Proteas will play a Pink One Day International on 12 February that Cricket South Africa hopes will raise R1 million. This will be the the third time the Proteas have donned pink for the cause. According to CSA, previous events have raised almost R500,000 for […]

As lion populations across Africa are seriously threatened by populations encroaching on their habitat and cattle farmers protecting their herds, among other things, a group of as many as 200 lions that few people knew about has been discovered in northwest Ethiopia. “During my professional career I have had to revise the lion distribution map many times,” […]