Up and coming young South African surfer, Ntokozo Surprise Maphumulo is on his way to Surf City El Salvador in Central America to compete against the best in the world at the ISA (International Surfing Association) World Junior Surfing Championship on May 27 to June 5, 2022! For Durbanites, it’s no ‘surprise’! They’ve been watching […]

Mark Pilgrim, one of South Africa’s well-known radio DJs, has shared fantastic news on his journey, as he undergoes treatment for cancer. Back in March, South Africans were devastated when the popular British-born TV personality announced that after a couple of scans and 33 years in remission, he had been diagnosed in February with stage […]

The NSRI and Bitou Municipality have appealed to residents and tourists in the area to exercise caution on the Keurbooms River and along the Plettenberg Bay coastline, due to shark activity. (Watch video below.) It’s unusual to find a White Shark in the river, but there was a sighting on Wednesday evening (18 May) during […]

REUTERS – Britain’s Prince Harry and his American wife, Meghan, celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Thursday (May 19). Meghan, a former U.S. actress, and Harry, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson and sixth in line to the British throne, became one of the world’s biggest celebrity couples since their glittering marriage at Windsor Castle. The Duke and […]

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has called upon residents to exercise extreme caution as inclement weather conditions are expected this weekend. This follows a South African Weather Service (SAWS) advisory that a cut-off low pressure system could bring light snowfall, freezing temperatures and severe thunderstorms in parts of the country, including […]

Disney+, the streaming service from The Walt Disney Company, launched yesterday in South Africa. Standard pricing at launch was confirmed at R119 per month, or R1190 for an annual subscription, with sign-up information available at DisneyPlus.com. Disney+ offers over 1000 films, more than 1500 series and a slate of 200 exclusive Originals from Disney, Pixar, […]

After outrage, almost as huge as a proposed R22-million flag pole project in South Africa, Arts Minister Nathi Mthethwa has backed down and directed his department to review plans to erect the giant 100-metre flag at Freedom Park in Tshwane. “Over the past few days, the Minister has followed and taken note of public discourse […]

Strap in, earthlings. The most critically acclaimed South African sci-fi film since District 9, Ryan Kruger’s Fried Barry starts streaming on Showmax on Thursday, 19 May 2022, having already taken the world by storm. Acclaimed local indie horror film Fried Barry is shot in Cape Town and directed by Ryan Kruger 80% critics’ rating on […]

Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international team made up of over 300 scientists on five continents – including Africa. Black holes were predicted by Albert Einstein’s General Theory of […]

A total of 56 769 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the last 24 hours in South Africa, including 14 409 Johnson & Johnson vaccines and 42 360 Pfizer vaccines. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) report on Tuesday, the vaccines administered in the last 24 hours included 20 063 first doses, […]

Commissioned six years ago and kept under lock and key by the Office of the KZN Premier until now, the hidden report into rhino poaching in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been partially released to the Democratic Alliance (DA) following extensive pressure. Last month the DA submitted a Public Access to Information Application (PAIA) for the report, […]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that South African batter Zubayr Hamza has been suspended from all cricket-related activities for nine months, after admitting to an anti-doping rule violation under the ICC Anti-Doping Code. Hamza provided an out-of-competition sample on 17 January 2022 in Paarl, South Africa, in which the prohibited substance Furosemide was […]

The World Rugby Council has approved a global trial limiting the opportunity for non-playing personnel to enter the field of play during a match. Operational for all competitions and stand-alone matches starting after 1 July 2022, World Rugby said in a statement on Tuesday that the trial aims to ”improve the flow of matches by […]

JOHANNESBURG – KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced that as of May 21, the use of face masks is no longer mandatory on board aircrafts to the Netherlands and at Dutch airports. This follows international guidelines being adjusted by the European Aviation Authority (EASA) last week. The airline does however insist that should the country of […]

There have been calls in South Africa – on social media and in the political arena – for swift action over the video of a student urinating over the belongings of another student at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape. Most are calling for the perpetrator’s expulsion, and a petition on Change.org has already gathered […]

South Africa’s judicial commission into state capture, known as the Zondo Commission, recently handed over the fourth part of its voluminous and scathing findings to President Cyril Ramaphosa. As a fact-finding commission, it had to determine if there were facts that were relevant for prosecutorial purposes related to “state capture” and corruption during the reign […]

The world’s largest airline, Emirates, and South African Tourism have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote tourism and boost visitor arrivals and inbound traffic to South Africa from key markets across the airline’s network. The MoU was signed on the side-lines of Arabian Travel Market by Badr Abbas, Emirates’ Senior Vice President […]

The court record in AfriForum’s case against the R50 million Cuba donation, shows the grand total of the donation to actually be R350 million and not just R50 million. This was revealed after Afriforum’s legal team requested the court record as part of its review application. According to the record, the government has agreed to […]

A white student at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape, South Africa, has allegedly urinated over a black student’s room, claiming this is what ‘they’ do to black students. The white student has reportedly apologised to the black first-year student, but the video of the repulsive incident has gone viral, and many outraged South Africans […]

South Africa has been plunged into Stage 4 load shedding this evening with more expected during the week, Eskom said, as it has been unable to gather enough generation capacity to feed national peak demand. Unit 2 of the Kusile Power Station tripped earlier on Monday afternoon, taking 720MW of generating capacity with it. While […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s national rugby flyhalf Elton Jantjies was arrested for “malicious damage to property” after an incident on an Emirates airlines flight from Dubai to Johannesburg on Sunday, police said. Jantjies’ agent says the incident has been “unnecessarily heightened”. The 32-year-old, who was part of the team that won the Rugby World […]

On Monday morning (early!) – 16 May – be sure to look up at the sky to witness a Total Eclipse of the Moon… which will ultimately see the full moon temporarily turn red. This beautiful sight is going to be visible across South Africa (depending on cloud cover). It’s already looking spectacular this evening, […]

Boetie first went to the border, and then to Hollywood, says Carte Blanche about tonight’s special guest, actor Arnold Vosloo who starred in ‘Boetie Gaan Border Toe’ in 1984, and has since become a household name not only in South Africa, but worldwide. This month he’s making headlines on Netflix in Silverton Siege, an action […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Proud Ukrainians revelled in their Eurovision Song Contest victory on Sunday (largely due to an overwhelming public vote of support from the rest of Europe), even renaming a train route in its honour as they hoped for victory in their grinding war with Russia. By Tom Balmforth and Natalia Zinets. It was […]

Due to a continued loss of generating capacity, Stage 2 and Stage 3 loadshedding are to be implemented from Sunday evening across South Africa, Eskom announced in a statement on Sunday morning. Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 17:00 – 22:00 tonight (Sunday 15 May), and Stage 3 will be implemented on Monday and Tuesday […]