President Cyril Ramaphosa is today (Wed 6 July) attending the mass funeral service for the 21 young people who died last week in a tavern in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The teenagers – some as young as 13 – passed away at the Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park, East London in the early hours […]

South Africa’s Police Minister, Bheki Cele, today clashed with Ian Cameron, anti-crime activist and Action Society director of community safety, in an angry and emotionally-fuelled outburst that ended with him yelling at Cameron to sit down and listen, or to ‘get out’. Cameron was then led out by police. The Police Ministry was meeting with […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British ninth-seed Cameron Norrie – who was born in South Africa, raised in New Zealand and naturalised in Britain – reached his first Grand Slam semi-final when he twice came from behind to beat unseeded Belgian David Goffin in five sets on Tuesday, to set up a dream Wimbledon meeting with Novak […]

Season 3 of Life With Kelly Khumalo is now streaming, with new episodes on Showmax every Tuesday. In the explosive first episode of Season 3 of the Showmax Original reality series Life With Kelly Khumalo, the singer:  Gives her ex, Jub Jub, the middle finger over his Mother’s Day message Brings Somizi to tears at her gospel […]

South African-born Cameron Norrie has reached the quarter finals of a Grand Slam tennis tournament for the first time in his career, after beating American Tommy Paul at Wimbledon on Sunday 3 July 2022: 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. And this afternoon he will step onto Court 1 carrying the hopes of a few nations on his […]

In its ongoing clean-up operations, the Department of Home Affairs has dismissed two employees for fraud relating to the selling of South African identities to foreign nationals who do not deserve such documents. The generation of fake SA IDs and passports has led to travel challenges for genuine South Africans, with the Ryan Air Afrikaans […]

Watching the South African national anthem – Nkosi Sikelil’ iAfrika – being sung anywhere can give you chills, but it was extra special on Saturday (2 July ’22) at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria… sung by the first packed stadium back home since the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup in 2019. SA Rugby says there […]

Rock DJ CHRIS PRIOR has penned the following letters to South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa about load-shedding, the sorry state of the police force and SA cities that are featuring on the wrong kind of Top 10 lists. Unsurprisingly, as the power in the country fails along with the people in power (and hashtags like […]

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has announced an additional 61 athletes to the Team South Africa squad that will carry the nation’s flag at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and which will take place from 28 July – 8 August. This was the second and final squad announcement following the first […]

A total of 23 athletes across nine different sports have been announced by governing body SASCOC to fly the Team SA flag at the 2022 World Games to be held in Birmingham, Alabama (not to be confused with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games which begins later this month). Olympic medallist Bridgitte Hartley and veteran Andrew […]

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced a price increase of at least R2.30 for all fuel variants from Wednesday, taking the fuel price to well beyond R25 a litre. In the wake of the “massive fuel price increase”, the DA has handed in its Fuel Price Deregulation Bill to Parliament today, […]

A court ruling has paved the way for a teacher to sue the Mpumalanga Department of Education for R8-million for loss of earnings and damages after he was attacked in his classroom by a learner. By Tania Broughton A Mpumalanga court has ruled that a teacher may proceed to sue the education department for damages […]

South Africans are due for a smorgasbord of load shedding stages in the week ahead as Eskom’s generation capacity shortages persist… and are expected to continue for the next few weeks. Eskom on Sunday cautioned South Africans that it would still take a few weeks for the power generation system to fully recover to pre-strike […]

Within one hour, on a fateful morning in April, Durban’s leading car manufacturer was under a metre of water. By the time the flood was over, Toyota had lost at least 4,000 cars in the Durban floods. Many were concerned the company, that suffered during the Pandemic as well, would leave SA’s shores… but instead […]

A last-gasp penalty goal by Damian Willemse secured the Springboks the narrowest of wins over Wales in the first of three Castle Lager Incoming Series Test matches, with the 82nd minute effort edging the home side past Wales by 32-29, after the visitors held an 18-3 lead at the break. A few minutes earlier the […]

A Family Feud Africa episode from a couple of years ago has started going viral again in South Africa as the country experiences various stages of power cuts. It’s the episode where American TV show host Steve Harvey learns about what South Africans call ‘load shedding’. When Family Feud Africa posted the video on YouTube […]

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and assistant coach Mzwandile Stick say they are thrilled about the prospect of playing in front of a capacity crowd at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday when they kick off their Castle Lager Incoming Series against Wales and said they wanted to make the nation proud. UPDATE: Springboks win against […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – It has been confirmed that former South African paralympic sportsman Oscar Pistorius, who was jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, last week met with her father. Tania Koen, lawyer for the Steenkamp family said on Friday, that Pistorius took part in a process known as “victim-offender dialogue” – an […]

The overall outlook of South Africa’s national water levels improved slightly in the past week, BUT the Department of Water and Sanitation has reiterated its call to water users to exercise maximum caution when using water. The improvement is largely due to the expected winter rainfall in the Western Cape, and unexpected wet weather in […]

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says the power utility will be taking action against workers who embarked on an illegal strike over the past week. The strike hit the state-owned entity hard, with up to 90% of workers absent from duty – plunging the country into stage six load shedding as a mitigating measure to avoid […]

South Africa’s failure to support the United Nations resolution calling for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine was a low-point in our foreign policy. By Nathan Geffen   No person who thinks of themself as progressive, left, or pro-democracy can in good faith be neutral about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia faced no existential threat from […]

Commonwealth Games champion Akani Simbine showed he is in fine fettle ahead of the Birmingham showpiece when he raced to victory in the 100m at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting on Thursday night. The South African athlete picked up his first big win of the season with a 10.02sec victory, after Olympic champion Lamont Marcell […]

AfriForum’s Community Safety division assisted law enforcement officers this week during violent protest action that broke out in the west of Pretoria, South Africa. Angry residents of the Gomorrah informal settlement were protesting because their demands for service delivery have not yet been granted. Community members invaded nearby neighbourhoods such as Booysens, and destroyed homes […]

Several South African sailors produced impressive performances at the recent Kiel Week in Germany where 5000 competitors converged on the German city for the nine-day event. Kiel Week includes numerous different classes, one of which was the Musto Skiff World Championships where South African Andy Tarboton finished in second place overall. The Musto Skiff is […]

The accused in the brutal farm attack on Robert Lynn and Susan (Sue) Howarth in February 2017, on their farm outside Dullstroom, were each sentenced today in the Breyten Magistrate’s Court to 37 years imprisonment. The horrific attack on Robert and Sue had sent shockwaves through South Africa – the couple had been tortured for […]