“Children and gardens both need love to flourish”. By Siphokazi Mnyobe. After the death of her lastborn son Granville, says Iris Telmaggiers, the vegetable gardening project in her street in Hornlee, Knysna, was the only thing that could ease her pain. Telmaggiers lost her son in November 2021, and had been struggling to get out of […]

Visitors to South Africa’s legendary Kruger National Park will be pleased to hear that SA National Parks (SANParks) has announced the start of a R370 million upgrading and refurbishment infrastructure programme in the Kruger over the next three years. Several Kruger tourists, particularly locals who are regular visitors, have complained on Kruger forums about the […]

Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk took part in a live stream Tesla / Twitter event on Sunday 8 May, together with Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood and Jack Dorsey who is co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and also founder of financial payments company Block, Inc. Tesla says on its YouTube page: […]

The Daily Show host, South African expat Trevor Noah, has voiced the concern of many about the ‘billionaire games’ that the super wealthy, like fellow SA expat Elon Musk, play with the stock market. Watch below. The Daily Show, which has almost 10 million subscribers on YouTube, said “Trevor’s no finance expert, but the details […]

South African TikTok user Sami Hall, from Gauteng, has produced a video that’s gone viral, showing actress Amber Heard how to cry better for the court and the cameras. Watch below. Heard was testifying this week in ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation trial, in which he is suing her for $50-million in damages for allegedly falsely […]

Princess Charlene has shared photos to her Instagram account of her second public outing since returning from an unnamed clinic, where she was recuperating after suffering an ENT (ear, nose, throat) infection in South Africa, and subsequent complications from surgery which kept her grounded in SA for several months last year. The Princess returned to […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the launch of a hydrogen-powered truck is a “giant step” in the right direction for South Africa’s budding green hydrogen economy. And there’s one man particularly who’s in the spotlight right now – Alex Tumisang Lekgau, Africa’s first and ONLY licensed operator of said hydrogen truck. Alex has risen from a […]

South Africa’s ‘quad squad’ have become the first-ever African team to reach a World Team Cup Final. The International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body of tennis, announced the “historic strikes for South Africa ???” on Thursday 5 May. The South African team – which includes 28-year-old Donald Ramphadi (ranked world number 10 and […]

As they say on Game of Thrones, Winter is Coming… and as Autumn gets well underway and South Africans brace themselves for cooler temperatures, this hilarious video by Lauren Bradley – of a typical South African winter wardrobe – is going viral. As Lauren jokes, in South Africa, “anything below 27 Celsius is winter ?????” […]

As South Africans revel in the pride of Elon Musk being from SA, there’s a brilliant piece going viral about “What America Gained and SA Lost”. But if it feels familiar – it’s because it is. It’s an old article from 2013. That’s why Trevor Noah isn’t included. He only shot to worldwide fame in […]

The 30-day extension of the Covid-19 regulations in South Africa will expire at midnight… which means, unless the government makes another late-night announcement extending it, South Africans will no longer be required to wear masks or comply with any other Covid-19 regulations from tomorrow, Thursday 5 May. However South Africans are waiting for clarity from […]

South African ultrarunners Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel have combined to produce another extraordinary feat when they circumnavigated almost 1,100km of the landlocked African country Lesotho in 16 days, 6 hours and 56 minutes, for an average of just shy of 69km or a little more than one and a half marathons, every day! They […]

South African filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert – who are based in Botswana – have been awarded the prestigious 2021 Explorers Club Medal at the 118th Explorers Club Annual Dinner. Previous honorees of the Explorers Club (which was founded in New York City in 1904) include the world’s all-time greatest explorers like Neil Armstrong to Sir Edmund […]

The Conversation Editor’s note: Muslims all over the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, one of the religion’s principal festivals. In July, Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha. Ken Chitwood, Concordia College New York, a scholar of global Islam, explains the two Islamic festivals. 1. What is Eid? Eid literally means a “festival” or “feast” in Arabic. […]

Volunteers in Cape Town have today continued a tradition, started nearly 40 years ago, by providing a plate of food to less fortunate families in celebration of the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. This time though there is an added urgency to their gesture of humanity, as spiralling inflation – driven by […]

Amkele Qamrana, who carried the flag for Team SA at the opening ceremony of the Deaflympics in Caxias do Sol in Brazil, is in the water again on day 3 of the Games today. Yesterday the teenager placed 24th overall in the 50m butterfly in a personal best 32.44 seconds. Today he competes in the […]

A little good news for South Africans as some motorists will feel a little relief at the fuel pumps from tomorrow (Wednesday 4 May) when the price of all grades of petrol decreases. This, however, will not extend to diesel, paraffin or gas consumers… with all of those expected to increase. The expected fuel and […]

Thirty-three year old Ludwe Qamata teaches vegetable gardening to older people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ashraf Hendricks. Affectionately known as the Ghetto Gardener, Qamata says farming and gardening have been his passion since he was a little boy when he used to help his grandmother plant vegetables in their yard in […]

Christie’s Geneva will auction off a 228.31 carat pear-shaped diamond on May 11. The white gemstone – known as ‘The Rock’ – was mined and polished in South Africa over two decades ago. The diamond is estimated to sell for between $20 to $30 million. “This is really one of, not one of, it is […]

Tom Cruise has revealed the official title for the new Mission: Impossible blockbuster (7), due for release next year. The Hollywood star made the announcement from a helicopter in South Africa, where he’s currently filming Mission: Impossible 8. The title of the new film is: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Which means the […]

Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader John Steenhuisen has arrived in Lviv, in western Ukraine, on a six-day fact-finding mission. The South African politician is not the only one visiting Lviv this weekend, as film actress Angelina Jolie – who is special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – surprised locals when she was […]

South African comedian Trevor Noah poked fun at US President Joe Biden last night… with Biden just metres away from him, at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner… but his most powerful message was reserved for the press. (See full speech below.) In a speech that has made South Africans so proud – the SA […]

Princess Charlene has made her first public appearance in months  – appearing on Saturday, with her family in Monte Carlo, to watch the Monaco E-Prix car race. The former South African Olympic swimmer (44), and her husband Prince Albert II of Monaco (64), attended the race with their children, twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella. […]

With rhino poaching in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) reaching monstrous levels, there comes a glimmer of hope that action is being taken to protect some of South Africa’s precious wildlife. Four Black Rhino have been successful translocated as part of a leading conservation programme to a safer location that will help the expansion of the species. Between […]

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that the City of Cape Town “is now ready to proceed with a detailed feasibility study for the devolution of the metropolitan rail function to this metro.” In other words, Cape Town has finally been given the green light by SA’s National Treasury  to look at localising its […]