Nearly six years after the Lottery gave R13 million to establish a “Carnival Heritage Museum” intended to celebrate the colourful history of Cape Town’s minstrels, the museum still does not exist. The annual minstrel parade through the streets of Cape Town dates back to 1890, with South Africa’s minstrels inspired and influenced by American minstrel troupes who visited Cape Town […]

Journalists in the United States and South Africa have questioned a recent claim by US Presidential hopeful Joe Biden. The former Vice President has remarked on at least three occasions in the past fortnight that he was arrested during the ’70s in Soweto… on his way to Robben Island to pay a visit to Nelson […]

Dear Family and Friends, I am writing this letter to you on Robert Mugabe Youth Day (21 Feb), a recently proclaimed public holiday… writes author Cathy Buckle in her latest Letter from Zimbabwe. It’s a beautiful day under a hot sun and bright blue sky but it’s hard to see what our youth have got […]

With everything stacked against him, there’s a little elephant in South Africa who’s survival is putting smiles in all our hearts and making news around the world. This Sunday Carte Blanche meets the wildlife heroes in South Africa who are saving a rare albino baby elephant who was severely injured by a poaching snare. You […]

In a dig at competitors’ “chicken nuggets”, Nando’s has produced a tongue-in-cheek video ad asking just which part of the chicken those nuggets come from? The conversation takes part between a rival fast-food chicken outlet and a customer… and there’s a definite hint that maybe it’s the “bum part” and that it’s “modified”. At the […]

Chanting ‘genoeg is genoeg’ (enough is enough) the residents of the Cape Flats have risen up Friday morning to fight back against the crime in their area, the latest being the tragic death of 8-year-old Tazne van Wyk. At the time of publishing, four homes in the Cape Flats had been torched by citizens who […]

South Africa’s Culinary Team has won three bronze medals at the IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart, Germany. South Africans are urged to welcome the team back when they arrive at OR Tambo International Airport tomorrow, 22 February 2020. “Bring your SA flags! Your vuvuzelas and your Welcoming spirit tomorrow, 22 January @ 8h45AM at OR […]

Owing to unplanned breakdowns, Eskom will continue to implement rotational load shedding going into the weekend. In a statement on Friday, the power utility said unplanned breakdowns have increased the shortage in generation capacity. “Eskom will continue implementing Stage 2 rotational load shedding until Sunday at 6am owing to unplanned breakdowns that have increased the […]

South African expats watching the new winter series of the UK’s popular Love Island have been in hysterics over some of the things happening on the show… since it’s filmed in Cape Town, and as expats they have an insider’s knowledge! Juliet Searle from Irene in Pretoria, who is now living in West Sussex, penned […]

Grab a tissue to watch EWN’s Cindy Poluta on her first emotional trip to work, without Alfred, the man she called a friend who she used to give a lift to each morning for the last three years… He was mugged and stabbed in Soweto earlier this month. On Cindy’s first morning drive to work […]

South Africans have responded with shock, condemnation and incredible sadness after the SA Police Service (SAPS) confirmed that the body of eight-year-old missing girl, Tazne van Wyk, has been discovered… in a storm water pipe near Worcester in the Western Cape. The President and politicians came under a barrage of criticism for failing to stem […]

Echoes of apartheid-style exploitation of workers have resurfaced in recent years in South Africa. Debates around these malpractices were given fresh impetus four years ago with the release of a documentary, Bitter Grapes. Produced by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann, it featured workers from South Africa’s winelands. Bitter Grapes cast light on wide-ranging exploitation. Hardships included […]

A tourist from Belgium was held up by armed attackers in South Africa on Valentine’s Day, at a private lodge near to Addo Elephant National Park, outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, while his Dutch girlfriend fortunately managed to hide in the bathroom. Despite the trauma, and subsequent panic attacks, he says he still […]

Heritage Western Cape has slammed the study on which the developers based their proposed R4-billion property development at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town. The Heritage Impact Assessment conducted by Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, which owns the land, is inadequate, flawed, unsubstantiated, problematic, and fails to address the requirements of the Heritage Resources Act, […]

The United National Transport Union (UNTU) has accused the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) of failing to provide and maintain a safe and healthy work environment for employees, after a train driver was stoned while on duty. According to a statement released by UNTU on Tuesday, Nonhlanhla Dlamini was the driver of a […]

David Scott from The Kiffness has penned an open letter to Woolworths after the South African multi-national retail chain announced its decision this week to stop playing copyright-protected music in their nationwide stores, in favour of royalty free soundtracks. According to SAMPRA, this effectively means South African music will no longer be played and promoted […]

Whoops, South Africa’s Minister Of Communications suffered a communication failure during a television interview with eNCA. Asked about allegedly flying her husband to Switzerland for a holiday to celebrate their wedding anniversary, on taxpayers’ money, Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams categorically denied it, saying she and her husband have never been to Switzerland… they only went to […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today warned against land expropriation without compensation in South Africa. Speaking during Wednesday morning’s session of the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa – which is being held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia – Pompeo said expropriation without compensation would be catastrophic for South Africa’s economy and the country’s […]

Three South African men will be aiming for their 40th Dusi marathon medals when the famous canoe event gets under way from Camps Drift in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 27 February. Capetonian Andre Hawarden joins Guy Haines and GV Price with the honour of starting his 40th Dusi, an annual event that has run like […]

Police in Limpopo, South Africa, have arrested a 52-year-old father, following the gruesome discovery of his four murdered children. The suspect, who cannot be named until he appears in court, was traced and arrested by police on Tuesday evening in Ga-Pasha, Selatole village. “He will be charged with four counts of murder and he will […]

Nearly 66% of this year’s SAFTA nominations in the TV categories are available to binge now on Showmax, with more to come soon. This includes more than 85% of the drama and over two-thirds of the soap and telenovela nominations, as well as both the most-nominated series overall and the most-nominated telenovela (The River, with 15 nominations), and the most-nominated drama […]

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu is mostly known to the world for his highly prominent role in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa. This role was internationally recognised by the awarding of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu continued his activism even after the country’s democratic transition in South Africa in the early 1990s. Among […]

South African fuel company, Engen, has committed to fuel the work of humanitarian disaster relief organization, Gift of the Givers to the tune of R2 million annually for the next three years. Gift of the Givers quick response in the event of disasters – from droughts to floods, their wide reach, and the fact that […]

An existing wind farm is crying foul after the government last month gave the conditional go-ahead for a massive new wind farm project on an adjoining property on the West Coast Peninsula near Vredenburg. The West Coast One wind farm, that has been operating since 2015, says the huge turbines of the recently approved Boulders Wind Energy […]

There are about 85 South Africans currently stuck in China, despite wanting to be evacuated and returned to South Africa in light of the outbreak of the new Coronavirus, according to the Democratic Alliance (DA). In a statement today, Darren Bergman MP – DA Shadow Minister of International Relations and Cooperation – said whilst the DA […]