The internet’s falling in love with a video mash of Trevor Noah and Whitney Houston. In the video – created by social media user Myster Giraffe – it appears that Trevor is impersonating Whitney singing her 1987 hit “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. And he’s ‘singing’ it well! The face swap video has already been […]

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has taken to Twitter to make fun of his detractors, on the eve of his highly anticipated appearance in court tomorrow. Zuma posted a video of himself giggling, laughing and singing “Zuma Must Fall”. In the background another person in the room, perhaps the cameraman, can be heard laughing […]

You have to be really fast and really brave to take on South Africa’s taxi drivers… which Scottish race driver David Coulthard most definitely is. Plus he has a great sense of humour! Watch below as he competes against a local taxi driver in the streets of Cape Town, and then rides with the taxi. […]

Here’s a video that clearly demonstrates the saying “his bark is worse than his bite”! Watch below as a very ferocious-sounding bird joins the dogs at the gates… https://www.facebook.com/UNCUTSA/videos/2318803341674663/ If you take a look at YouTube you’ll find a few more birds with the same idea:

Watch this group of South Africans try some Surströmming – one of the smelliest fish in the world! Even the Japanese, who have their own famous fermented fish dish (kusaya), say – according to a study – that a newly opened can of surströmming has “one of the most putrid food smells in the world”, […]

Despite filming ‘Good Omens’ in Cape Town, Scottish actor David Tennant revealed last week that he just can’t master the South African accent (which happens to have been voted one of the sexiest accents in the world)! Watch below as David morphs from speaking with a South African twang into sounding like he comes from […]

An African Grey Parrot that swears in Afrikaans is going viral on social media, as its owner tries to tell it “no man Marco (or Narco), don’t be so rude!” The source of the video is unknown. The footage was sent to The Dirty Mexican Martinez by Capetonian Calvin Davey, who says it was sent […]

Have you ever kept a travel journal? Here is mine – an African in America, from when I arrived in the U.S. of A a little while back. Oh what a place… writes Audrey Kruger. Getting off the plane Whoa mense! Hierdie plek is incredible! America! A-merr-rica! Getting off the plane and heading to immigration […]

This week on The Daily Show, South African expat and comedian Trevor Noah shared his views on the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s decision to uphold an IAAF rule that would require fellow South African, athlete Caster Semenya to take testosterone suppressants to compete in the women’s division in her best events – the 800-m […]

With some of the jokes being shared after the South African national elections, it’s clear that not everyone is feeling ecstatic with the results… For most, there’s a feeling of excitement – that now’s the time for us to get behind our President and help make this country the best it can possibly be. But […]

If you live abroad, or otherwise missed voting in yesterday’s national elections in South Africa, then filmmaker SUSAN SCOTT’s tweets of her experience in the queue at Randburg are a must-read. You’ll feel like you were there!!! Susan – director of the multi award-winning Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War – began her very […]

Proving Dullstroom is anything but dull, check out the political parody posters somebody has created… advertising Dullstroom in Mpumalanga! If you’ve never wanted to visit before, these posters will hopefully tempt you – if not for the fly fishing, restaurants and all the activities… then for the humour!

Cape Town’s The Kiffness (aka David Scott) has posted a video about Mmusi Maimane that’s gone viral in South Africa… even reaching the desk of the Democratic Alliance (DA) leader himself. An excited Scott said: “GUYS! MMU$I MAIMANE WATCHED THE VIDEO ???” Maimane said: “Love your work. Indeed an honest government that focuses on economic […]

As most South Africans now know, a new poll ranked the world’s sexiest accents and ‘South African’ came in second! (New Zealand came in first.) Watch below as Trevor Noah makes fun of the list with his interpretation of the New Zealand and Australian accents. Trevor asked which South African accent they specifically meant – […]

A travel website with over 1.5 million readers has voted ‘South African’ – specifically Afrikaans – as the second sexiest accent in the world! Which is no big surprise. Many South African expats have been complimented on their accent for years (and ja, no well, some have been teased too). In 2011 British presenter Piers […]

South African expat Trevor Noah’s latest clip from The Tonight Show in the US has gone viral because of the SA expat’s infectious laugh! Watch below as Trevor reacts to David Oyelowo’s story about his Nigerian dad loving his leaf blowers in LA… British-Nigerian actor David has starred as Martin Luther King Jr (Selma) and […]

For undecided South African voters, Capetonian resident Faried Swartz has created a brilliant version of ‘Do Re Mi’ (from the Sound of Music). Watch below as he “starts at the very beginning” and charts everything that’s happened since we voted for democracy and the ANC… ANC… Faried says the reaction to his video has been […]

South African YouTuber Lasizwe (Dambuza) points out the differences between the EFF, DA and ANC (or FFE, DNA and NAC)… For the few who don’t possess good old fashioned South African humour, Lasizwe stresses: “This is a PARODY!” He also says he is not affiliated to any political party. WATCH The Difference Between the ANC, […]

South Africa’s fabulous domestic goddess Suzelle DIY has the best tips for surviving load shedding! The do-it-yourself expert first posted this video in July 2015… and now, nearly four years later, it’s being shared wildly again as South Africans come to grips with handling load shedding as power cuts become a daily reality. Suzelle said: […]

Load Shedding is crap! But I must admit that I’ve not been affected by it whatsoever… writes South African music and entertainment entrepreneur, and former frontman of the band Cinema, Jarrod Aston Assenheim. I love having a few hours at this time of night to slow down, listen to the silence, listen to an audiobook and […]

This is what happens at the car wash when Eskom’s load-shedding! Actually we’re not sure where this was filmed, and it doesn’t look like South Africa… but it’s brilliant. Watch and see… https://www.facebook.com/mexvines/videos/353615205243938/ Some of the comments on the original post are classic. Here’s just a selection:

The loadshedding crisis in South Africa, which has dragged on (and off) for around 11 years is not so much a power failure, say some, as a failure of power. And therefore no joke – of which there are many, it being South Africa and all – captures the ineptitude of those controlling South Africa’s […]

You know you’re South African when you understand this entire video… A is for ‘aikona’, B is for ‘braai’, C is for ‘carguard’, D is for ‘Doom’, E is for ‘Eskom’…. The brilliantly humorous video was created by Skertips Sarkasties. WATCH The Alphabet of South African Slang

South Africa has had a field day with weird and wacky viral posts in the past week – namely My F*k Marelize (where a 19-year-old learner cyclist rode straight into a rugby pole!) and ‘The Resurrection’, the latter even making news around the world. The Guardian newspaper in the UK posted a collection of some […]

Just like “you’re terrible Muriel” became a saying after movie blockbuster Muriel’s Wedding, it looks like “my f*k Marelize” is set to become a permanent feature in the Afrikaans language after a video went viral this week in which a Windhoek mom let the words slip after filming her daughter cycling unintionally into a rugby […]