LONDON – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan confirmed today they will head to southern Africa later this year for their first official overseas tour as a family since the birth of son Archie. The couple will visit South Africa, Angola and Malawi and also undertake a working visit to Botswana at the request […]

Increased foreign investment in South Africa will be high on the agenda when President Cyril Ramaphosa joins other international leaders for the annual G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, tomorrow and on Saturday. It is the G20’s twentieth anniversary. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Presidency said South Africa would try secure financial and other […]

Twenty-six police officers in South Africa have been killed since the beginning of 2019, and the government has pledged to take action to find the guilty parties and bring them to justice. Nine people have already been given life sentences for these crimes. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Pretoria on Thursday, Minister in the […]

Multi-coloured balloons, knitting wool and the sound of children chattering filled the Manenberg Library, Cape Town, on Wednesday morning. The suburb has been plagued by gang violence and deadly shootings. In the midst of this the public library has been a safe haven for children living nearby. The library hosts programmes and fun activities to […]

Daniel Mminele will retire as deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank at the end of the month after 10 years in the job, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday, making him the third member of its policy committee to quit the regulator recently. Mminele’s retirement follows the departure of fellow deputy governor Francois […]

The delivery of life saving blood has been taken to new heights by the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) with the launch a new drone blood delivery service. Launched in May, the Tron Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) drone, features a wing design suited for maximum efficiency and allows for long travel time with minimal […]

The Matrics at St Johns DSG in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, have sent out a Special Invitation to President Ramaphosa and the First Lady, Dr Motsepe that is sure to give you goosebumps. The prefects’ theme for this year is ‘Rewrite the Stars’, inspiring the younger girls to show determination, have courage and pursue one’s dreams. […]

Sjoe. This is the South Africa we love. On Monday night a South African driver, Michelle Vorster, ran out of petrol on Witkoppen Road in Joburg, Gauteng (“because I’m an idiot like that”). Nobody stopped. It was getting darker. And then like a knight in shining armour, a truck driver wearing an AA uniform appeared […]

South Africa’s The Test Kitchen has once again been named as one of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, making it the fifth time the Cape Town restaurant has made the Top 50. The restaurant, which came in 44th place, was also once again awarded The Best Restaurant in Africa title. According to TheWorlds50Best.com, “this creative […]

As part of their autumn royal tour, Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle will travel to sunny South Africa (which will be enjoying its spring then), it was confirmed today by SA’s British High Commissioner, Nigel Casey. Casey told a press conference today that the new parents will be “coming back to visit us in […]

Just under 10.2 million people are employed in the country’s non-agricultural sector, up 76,000 from the same period last year, according to the most recent quarterly report put out by Stats South Africa. While 130,000 full-time jobs were added, 54,000 part-time jobs were lost. The non-agricultural sector excludes agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing, the informal sector […]

GENEVA – Two South African sisters who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, initially without charge, described their ordeal on Tuesday in an effort to give a voice to the voiceless as they said they had brought a complaint to the United Nations. Yumna Desai, a former English teacher at the University of Ha’il in northern […]

South Africans are exploring their own gorgeous country like never before! According to South African Tourism (SA Tourism), domestic holiday trips rose by 59.7 % in the first quarter of this year (January to April 2019). Thanks to an SA Tourism marketing campaign enticing South Africans to travel their country, the period this year showed […]

Protests continue to rock parts of South Africa with one fatality reported last night in the Western Cape, and a road dug up in the North West province. ANC member Andiswa Ndevu tragically died in a motor accident on Tuesday night, trying to escape violent protestors. Ndevu, a single parent and member of the ANC […]

Wine is a massively confusing and intimidating subject for many who drink it even on a fairly regular basis. Can you imagine what it’s like for the millions of South Africans whose culture doesn’t include wine – or didn’t, for decades – and for whom the very concept of fermented grape juice is unheard of? […]

SABRIC, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre, on behalf of the banking industry has released its annual crime stats for 2018. “We are concerned about some of the increases, which clearly reflect that criminals will take every opportunity to get their hands on bank customers’ money,” says SABRIC CEO, Kalyani Pillay. Combined gross card […]

The ocean around Cape Town is so polluted that pharmaceutical and industrial chemical compounds are accumulating in the flesh of fish caught off the coast. Scientists from the University of the Western Cape’s chemistry department have found that fish caught by small scale commercial fishers in Kalk Bay are contaminated by antibiotics, pain killers, antiretrovirals, […]

Goosebumps! South Africa’s Ndlovu Youth Choir received a rip, roaring standing ovation after their America’s Got Talent 2019 audition, which – as one of the judges said – is the “biggest talent stage in the world”. Simon Cowell said: “We’ve always been waiting for a choir like this, something we’ve never heard before. And your […]

Contrary to popular belief, more South Africans are returning home than public perception. When SAPeople published a blog recently from an expat who was moving with her young family back to SA after several years in the UK, there was an outcry. How could she do such a thing? But it turns out – according […]

JOHANNESBURG – Jacob Zuma – who was unseated as South African president last year over corruption allegations – will attend the Zondo judicial inquiry into government corruption that took place during his tenure… even though he believes it is prejudiced against him, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Zuma’s African National Congress (ANC) party forced him […]

HARARE – On Monday Zimbabwe ended a decade of dollarisation, making its interim currency the country’s sole legal tender in a step towards relaunching the Zimbabwean dollar. The central bank also hiked its overnight lending rate to 50% from 15% as a part of a set of measures to protect the RTGS dollar introduced in […]

The videos of a soldier called Mabena that have been going viral in South Africa the last few days, have triggered a memory from 1963 in the country’s former president Jacob Zuma. Zuma took to Twitter to share the memory of when he was arrested and interrogated in a police cell in Pretoria. He said: […]

Rand Water has urged residents in Johannesburg not to stock water as a maintenance operation gets underway in the city. The water utility is installing a new valve on the line running from Lethabo to the Vereeniging pumping station. Water supply is expected to be interrupted for 54 hours which started on Monday morning. Rand […]

South Africa will have no sides in the semi-finals of Super Rugby for only the second time in 16 years, but it could unfortunately be just the start of the country’s declining fortunes in the competition as teams are decimated by player departures. There have been mitigating circumstances to the failures in 2019 with the […]

African countries running up debt they won’t be able to pay back – including to China – should not expect to be bailed out by western-sponsored debt relief, the United States’ top Africa diplomat warned. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank began the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in 1996 to help the […]