Wondering how to celebrate New Year this year? Here are 11 fabulous and varied ways to bring in 2016 if you’re in South Africa. They may not be as famous as New York’s Time Square, London’s Trafalgar Square or Sydney’s Harbour Bridge lights…but they’re just as much – if not more – fun! 1. At the Karoo’s Festival […]

On 1 January 2013, Lorraine Loots set herself a goal: to produce one work of art a day for the next year. Two years and 730 paintings later, the results can be seen in “Paintings for Ants” and the newly launched “Postcards for Ants”. Along the way, Loots has picked up almost a quarter of a […]

The skies over Centurion and Gauteng were heavenly this evening, like a beautiful Renaissance painting… with colours and shapes that had many South Africans stepping outside to capture the scene – of these magnificent Mammatus clouds – on film. Mammatus clouds, or mammatocumulus, is the meterological terms given to this “cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of […]

A lanky teenage boy in jeans and a t-shirt takes a seat in front of a grand piano in a Karoo farmhouse. Behind him are a few dozen people on sofas and dining room chairs, waiting expectantly. At the entrance to the room is a platter bearing a small but growing pile of cash. The […]

One of the most heartbreaking aspects of moving to another country is the decision on whether to take your pets with you or not. When a couple in South Africa realised that their beloved blind Rottweiler cross, Misty, may not cope with the New Zealand quarantine requirements, they turned to facebook group Paws R Us to find a new […]

Check out this humorous take on some South Africans’ typically “hectic” holiday plans… The video was compiled by ADlast.tv and uploaded to YouTube today with a message saying: “Happy holidays to ALL form Merv, Sharon, Peter and the lunatics at adlast.tv” Watch Video: December Holidays 2015 PLEASE NOTE: If you’re sensitive to foul language, please […]

Usually when rhinos are in the news, it’s for only one reason – poaching. But the media is suddenly focusing on a very different kind of rhino, a golden one that is more than 700 years old, and they’re asking, “Will South Africa let it leave the country?” The figurine – made of gold foil and tacked […]

Police officers at Cape Gate Mall in South Africa are being praised online for their speedy and caring handling of a little child who was lost at the shopping mall. Alda Heunis Smith posted photos with a message on her facebook timeline, and business page, Cape Town Birth Photographer, about the sweet “moment of beauty in the chaos” that […]

Just a week after celebrating the royal twins’ first birthday, Princess Charlene and Prince Albert II of Monaco have made many other children in the principality happy with their annual Christmas gift-giving event at the palace. The 37-year-old princess and her 57-year-old husband weren’t accompanied by their babies this time, as they focused instead on the Monégasques children […]

It was a crazy week, where sanity prevailed in the end. Pravin Gordhan rose, #ZumaMustFall protesters marched, the minister of education promised action against abusers of the school system, and a court ruled that SAA could not cover up a report exposing its financial woes. In all this excitement, it was easy to miss some stories, so we’ve […]

With the year coming to an end, people are preparing for the holiday season. Because of its cultural diversity and colonial history, South Africa shares a lot of holidays with other countries. And it appears that South Africans do enjoy foreign festivities, because every year more events seem to be celebrated – aside from religious holidays like […]

South African professional bodyboarding champion Andre Botha was honoured last night in the Hawaiian city of Honolulu for his recent rescue of a surfer who would almost certainly have otherwise drowned. In a facebook post, Honolulu mayor Kirk Caldwell said he and the Honolulu Emergency Services Department yesterday honoured Andre “for his heroic efforts that resulted in a […]

In a video uploaded a week ago, a driver in Durban can be seen quite clearly refusing to get out of the way of a taxi driver who thought he could jump the queue…on the wrong side of the road. ‎The video, filmed by a dashcam (dashboard camera) in Che Guevara Road – formerly Moore […]

With a week to go till Christmas…this local-is-lekker version of popular Christmas carol ’12 Days to Christmas’ is sure to get you in the festive spirit… The video was created by Jacaranda FM radio’s Complimentary Breakfast Show and uploaded at the end of November. Watch Video: The Complimentary Breakfast Christmas Song, 2015 You can watch a […]

Rhodes Rage, by Zapiro “In Zapiro’s 20th annual he skewers another momentous year including the drama over Rhodes and other statues, Nkandla pay back the money, spy cables, NPA shenanigans, Eskom and parastatal paralysis, union disunity, Charlie Hebdo, xenophobia, Juju’s boiler suit brigade, Godzille’s successor, cockroaches, Verwoerd’s ghost and other political creatures.” The Cape Town […]

Thousands of South Africans across the country joined together on Wednesday to get President Jacob Zuma to step down, as they walked through various cities chanting “Zuma Must Fall”. The major protests were in Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg and some went on for several hours, disrupting traffic in parts of the cities on the public holiday, […]

In the popular radio show hosted by Redi Tlhabi on 702, an 11-year-old named Mulanga this week called in to comment on the latest events in government, and said that “what Jacob Zuma is doing is a joke”. Tlhabi said Mulanga was the best caller she’d had this year and she was proud of her and impressed […]

They’re not called the Blitzbokke for nothing! Check out how lightning fast South Africa’s Seabelo Senatla is in this video which is going viral on facebook… Watch Video: Check out the speed of Seabelo Senatla: This is absolutely insane… Tag a teammate with SPEED! Posted by USA Sevens Rugby on Monday, 14 December 2015 The […]

Call Johannesburg what you will – ugly, the crime capital of the world, mine dump, blah blah blah – many of us have always loved it. And plenty of people who once avoided the place – staying cocooned at OR Tambo International on their flights to Cape Town or Kruger – are now venturing into this spectacular world-class city. […]

South African fans of Mariah Carey are celebrating today as it’s been announced that the international superstar – and diva amongst divas – will tour South Africa for the very first time! In a statement this morning on their facebook page, the Publicity Workshop quoted Mariah saying: “Lambily, it’s been too long!! I’m so excited to […]

The Springbok Sevens team on Sunday were crowned first winners of the inaugural HSBC Cape Town Sevens after a solid 29-14 win over Argentina in an awesome final that brought down the curtain on a fantastic first tournament in South Africa’s Mother City. It was also a third consecutive win on home soil for the […]

Barely days after firing Nhlandhla Nene as finance minister and appointing unknown David van Rooyen in his place – and sending the South African economy into a downward spiral –  President Jacob Zuma has fired Van Rooyen and appointed Pravin Gordhan to fill the post. The presidency issued a statement on Sunday night confirming the […]

The movie studio dubbed South Africa’s Pixar, which made the international hits “Adventures in Zambezia” and “Khumba”, will back eight new animated movies and TV series – two more than initially intended – because the proposals it got were so good. The projects include a story about a lemming who must learn to defy his nature […]

Just over a year ago, a photo of the Johannesburg mail centre went viral – it was in chaos – and things have hardly got better for the parastatal in 2015. But 2016 could see a massive change, with the head of a major JSE-listed financial company taking over the crippled mail service in a few weeks’ time. In November it was announced that […]

A giant tapestry in honour of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at the Cape Town International Airport on Thursday to mark International Human Rights Day, Amnesty International has announced. Entitled “Flying Madiba”, the tapestry in the international arrivals hall was designed by acclaimed Czech artist Peter Sis and woven by Atelier Pinton in Aubusson, France, and measures about six […]