During a visit today to the R1.6 billion Msikaba Bridge, which will become the longest cable-stay bridge in Africa when completed, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said the government would not allow people with hidden agendas to stop development. The bridge is part of the N2 Wild Coast road, which stretches 410 km from the Gonubie […]

The murder of Bafana Bafana Captain Senzo Meyiwa (27) was not a robbery go wrong, as initially suspected, but a targeted killing, AfriForum revealed this evening at a press briefing in Pretoria. While praise was heaped on the South African Police Service (SAPS) for working with AfriForum in the past few months, and for their […]

A senior ANC member tried unsuccessfully to have members of the media and civil society barred from a public, virtual meeting of a parliamentary portfolio that discussed the appointment of a new board chairperson for the National Lotteries Commission, writes Raymond Joseph of GroundUp. Among those attending Friday’s meeting of the portfolio committee for Trade, […]

South African law enforcement agencies – accompanied by Police Minister Bheki Cele – shut down Blackdoor Lifestyle Lounge in Sandton on Sunday for violating various COVID-19 lockdown regulations. The club was apparently operating after midnight (packed beyond capacity), could not present a liquor license and there was no appointed manager. In videos posted on Twitter […]

Five suspects have been arrested for the murder of former Bafana Bafana captain and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwo… who was shot dead exactly six years ago, to the day. South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele announced the breakthrough on Monday. The five are due to appear in the Boksburg Magistrates Court on Tuesday. The […]

The Minister for the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, has congratulated the newly crowned Miss SA. Shudufhadzho Musida, 24, from Limpopo walked away with the Miss SA 2020 title on Saturday in Cape Town. Musida beat the other hopefuls from various provinces who were vying for the glittering crown named […]

The ANC Caucus in Parliament has laid all blame on the EFF for disrupting a public hearing in Limpopo today, on Expropriation of Land Without Compensation, which led to it being cancelled. The ANC said in a statement on Sunday evening that it condemns the EFF for “disorderly conduct” and that the “anarchy” today is […]

DA Federal Chairperson and Western Cape Minister of Agriculture, Dr Ivan Meyer, today urged South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to “wake up and smell the blood of farmers across South Africa”. Speaking outside Parliament in Cape Town, at a Black Monday event (held on Sunday so people didn’t have to miss work), Dr Meyer said […]

Pretoria man Wayne Gary Giles, who has been fighting for his life during the past week in ICU in hospital, has awoken to news of the overwhelming care and kindness of family, friends and strangers in South Africa, and abroad, who together have raised over R200,000 to help pay his medical bills after he was […]

About 300 farmers and supporters gathered outside Parliament on Sunday morning to protest against farm murders and farm fires. Holding white crosses, a group marched to Parliament chanting “die boere kom! (the farmers are coming!)” while others arrived on motorcycles and their vehicles. In July a similar protest took place. “The farmers are the reason […]

For two years (2017 and 2018), a spate of muggings, stabbings and murders in Table Mountain Reserve, South Africa, went unsolved, leaving local Cape Town cyclists and hikers, as well as tourists, vulnerable and terrified. Now, investigators are confident that they’ve finally caught the violent killer who was lurking on the mountain. “With his unassuming […]

Shudufhadzo Musida was last night crowned Miss South Africa 2020 in the beauty pageant’s 62nd grand finale, which took place for the first time ever in Cape Town. Here’s everything you need to know about SA’s new Miss South Africa… 1. In her first post on social media after winning, Shudufhadzo (Shudu) said: “Just like […]

It’s that time of the year again, in South Africa. Jacaranda time! And the streets of Pretoria never fail to impress. Most of us are used to the famous purple jacaranda trees that herald the approach of exams, but today (Sat 23 Oct), teacher and regular SAPeople contributor, Andrea Ben, captured these photos of the […]

Three fabulous South African films have won top awards at an international film festival in Viseu, Portugual. The three films are: ‘Mzansea’ which won TWO first prizes, ‘Welcome to Khayelitsha’ which won a second prize, and ‘Love Hermanus’ which came second in the Locations category. The SA films were competing amongst 300 films from 45 […]

Environmentalists have been shocked this week by the catastrophic crude oil spill from a Transnet pipe into the Umbilo River in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, which has spread down to Durban Harbour and can be seen as far as Battery Beach in Durban Central. The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is “horrified” by the spill […]

Recent reports of the looting of relief funds meant for managing the COVID-19 pandemic have once again shone the spotlight on the abuse of power in South Africa. They beg the question as to how it can be prevented. Data from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Ethics Barometer suggested that the country has a long way to […]

The Democratic Party (DA) says it is horrified at the murder of community and environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase at her home in Ophondweni, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa. “The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be found, and justice swiftly meted out,” Hannah Shameema Winkler – Shadow Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries […]

A vocal opponent of plans to extend Somkhele coal mine, one of South Africa’s largest open coal mines, situated on the border of iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was murdered on Thursday night. Fikile Ntshangase, a vocal opponent of plans to extend the Somkhele coal mine, was murdered in her home on Thursday night. […]

Stephen Gray, the South African novelist, poet, biographer, literary scholar, editor, critic and academic, died in Johannesburg on October 22 after a short illness. He was 78… writes Darryl Accone. Born in Cape Town on November 30 1941, Stephen Richard Gray was to become a protean literary talent, writing in every genre, acknowledged as the […]

This week Carte Blanche celebrates the life of a young refugee who became a leading pulmonologist, and is now saving the lives of critically-ill COVID-19 patients in South Africa, plus more. The Extraordinary Life of Emmanuel Taban On Sunday Carte Blanche tells the story of how a location etched onto a soft drink can changed […]

South African National Parks (SANParks) announced the arrest of three staff members on 20 October 2020; in an extended Intel driven operation by SANParks, SAPS Crime Intelligence Unit, Sabi Sands and Skukuza SAPS Stock Theft Unit outside Kruger Gate. Two of the officials were employed as Security Guards and one was attached to Technical Services […]

Popular Expresso Morning Show host Katlego Maboe will not be appearing on the show until legal proceedings have been fully investigated, and pending the outcome,  Cardova Productions said in a statement on Friday. The statement said: “Certain serious allegations have been posted on social media about Mr Katlego Maboe and, last night, a video was leaked […]

The City of Cape Town has granted in-principle approval of the Rondebosch Golf Club lease renewal, stating that the area is “not suitable for housing purposes at this point” and that it has “severe development constraints”. The decision by the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee was made on 20 October, with a final decision […]

A young South African expat living in Los Angeles, California, has written and produced a song with a voice that will tear at your heart and lyrics that will stir your soul, set to a backdrop of visuals highlighting the spectacular, heartbreaking beauty of South Africa. Edward Smith – whose real name is Dewald Smit […]

Around a hundred thousand years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast was a busy place. Giraffes, crocodiles, hatchling sea turtles and large bird species populated the landscape. Early humans were there, too. We know all of this because of fossil tracksites that today dot the Cape south coast, which is about 400km east of Cape […]