If you’re in South Africa having problems accessing SAPeople.com or any other international websites, it’s not you or us… it’s the cables! Apparently in a ‘freak’ coincidence two major undersea cables connecting SA with the rest of the world have broken down. According to AfriHost, engineers have established that the SAT3/WASC break is in the […]

A 62-year-old woman in South Africa, who ran out of patience after waiting for an RDP house for over 20 years, has built herself a Wendy house. Gloria Matebe is a grandmother of two young girls. She spent six months building her home from discarded pieces of timber that she collected from a nearby dumpsite […]

Parktown Boys’ High School has asked South Africans to share their post to help find 13-year-old school boy, Enock Mpianzi, who went missing during a school camp at a lodge in Brits in the North West Province. Update: Missing Parktown schoolboy Enock Mpianzi’s body has sadly been found. The teenager, from Yeoville, was part of […]

POTCHEFSTROOM – The war on rhino poachers continues successfully with another suspected rhino poacher arrested on a game lodge near Rustenburg, South Africa, yesterday. The suspect has been identified as a police constable, and has possible links to the rhino poaching incidents that have plagued Pilanesberg. The South African Police Service (SAPS) said that the […]

As from next month South Africans will pay a fee of €80 instead of €60 when applying for a Schengen Visa from South Africa. The increase also affects children, who will now have to pay €40 instead of €35, as it is currently. South Africans will also be subjected to several changes in terms of […]

South Africa’s Lloyd Harris claimed another big win at the ATP 250 event in Adelaide, Australia, when he reached the semi-finals to continue his strong run of form in 2020. The 22-year-old from Cape Town took out the No4 seed, Pablo Carrena Busta, 6-3, 6-3 in the quarter-finals and in doing so he looked like […]

As a child, I played with my best friend and her sister on their beautiful farm in Glendale, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. We ran barefoot through the house, innocently playing hide and seek and giggling with their mom. Last week that farm became the location of a brutal attack and robbery in which a mother […]

Thabo Rateleki had never skied outside of South Africa before but he’s competing at the Youth Winter Games in Lausanne, Switzerland… and flying the flag high for Africa, being one of only two competitors from the continent at the Youth Olympics. In fact, Rateleki had never been on a plane before. But, standing at the […]

Prayers and Christmas wishes have been answered in Australia as rain has lashed parts of the country, helping firefighters’ efforts in dousing the flames that have raged across the land since September 2019, killing at least 29 people nationwide and approximately 1 billion animals, as well as destroying buildings and homes, and wiping out swathes […]

More than 900 learners at Ibhongo Lethu primary school in Upington started school today with no toilets at all. There are four blocks of about six classrooms for learners from grades 1 to 7 with toilets for each block, in the school, which was built in 2014. But the toilets were vandalised in late 2018, […]

South Africans have praised Bergville Primary School principal – Aleem Abrahams – for his speech to the community, encouraging parents to nurture good values at home. Speaking outside the school in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, Abrahams said schools can’t nurture good values in a child if they haven’t been instilled at home. He urged parents, […]

Dam levels in parts of South Africa have slightly begun to improve as a result of persistent rain. “Dam waters rose by 1% week-on-week, while an average national level is at 60.2% — an improvement from 59.2% the previous week,” said Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on Wednesday. Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister […]

Over the past few weeks, there has been a vengeful rumbling within the Coloured communities of the Western and Northern Cape, with drug dealers being in their line of sight. At the end of this year, IOL reported how a drug dealer, which had been terrorising the Athlone neighbourhood of Silvertown for four years, was […]

Check out this hilarious video about the consequences of consuming curry in Durban, South Africa. The video was created by Craig Haughey who describes it as a “Parody about Eating Curry :)” Inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire”, the song begins: “Went out last night, had a curry or two; some chilli baked beans […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO ) of Mogalakwena Municipality, Charles Malema to immediately stop what it calls “the wasteful expenditure” of renting a Mercedes Benz C-Class for Mayor Andrina Matsimela, which the DA claims has already cost taxpayers more than R207 400… despite the municipality being under administration. […]

South Africa’s Lloyd Harris has continued his strong run of form in Australia by winning through to the quarter-finals of the ATP 250 event in Adelaide. The 22-year-old, who has risen to No91 in the world rankings, got past the No40-ranked player in the world, Laslo Djere, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in their second round match […]

Thabiso Molefi ran away from home and hitchhiked from the Free State to Cape Town in 2014. Only 14, it took him months to hitchhike to Cape Town. When he arrived, his first stop was Lagoon Beach in Milnerton. He couldn’t swim but nevertheless, he took off his clothes and then “just went to play […]

A 19-year-old teenager was reportedly abducted and raped while her parents were tied up and robbed on their farm in Kranskloof, Glendale in South Africa, on Thursday night. According to the North Coast Courier, the three attackers – armed with knives and a crowbar – accosted the family in KwaZulu-Natal at around 23h00. They tied […]

We’ve done a quick trawl of holiday viewing data on Showmax to see if we could spot any trends in how people used their downtime. Not everything was as expected, says Showmax… First off, top marks go to South Africa. The nation collectively viewed more than 100 years’ worth of video on Showmax over Christmas […]

A second sighting of a Great White Shark in False Bay has been made by South African National Parks (SANParks) marine biologist, Dr Alison Kock. Speaking to John Maytham on Cape Talk, Dr Kock said she spotted the Great White Shark near Macassar Beach in the False Bay area, during an aerial survey on Saturday. […]

South African Deputy President David Mabuza is in Juba, South Sudan, for meetings on the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan, aimed at ensuring peace in the region going forwards. The main aim of the visit is to find a consensus from the different parties on the issue of the number […]

When we’re watching the feats South Africa’s players pull off on-field, it’s hard to believe they’re human! Maybe they’re not … To kick off the Super Rugby season, our rugby heroes show their true colours when they dress in official Marvel kit for the matches on Super Hero Sunday. Showmax subscribers can watch these super-fun […]

Koalas, which are usually native to Australia, have been spotted all over New York City in the past few days. These ones however are toy koalas and they’re on a mission to raise funds to help the the real-life arboreal herbivorous marsupials back in Australia. The toys have been photographed clinging to landmarks all over […]

Police Minister Bheki Cele has urged gun owners to take advantage of government’s firearms amnesty programme and surrender unwanted weapons before May this year. The Minister made the remarks at Linden police station in Johannesburg, where an arms dealer parted with 298 such weapons. Cele said since the amnesty began in December 2019, a total […]

Although average Western Cape dam levels are better this year than last (and a lot better than some drought-ridden parts of the Eastern and Northern Cape), residents are requested to please continue being careful with their water usage as the forthcoming rainfall is predicted to be less than usual. SAPeople contributor Stan Sanetra captured this […]