The South African entertainment industry is mourning the death of three stars who died in a fatal car crash accident in Queenstown, in the Eastern Cape, over the weekend. The accident claimed the lives of five people, including the SA personalities: YoTV star and TV producer Akhumzi Jezile, Queen Mzansi actor Thoba Mseleni and former […]

The South African Police Service (SAPS) says 54 people have been arrested in connection with violent protests – in which 18 trucks were torched – on the N3 freeway near the Mooi River Toll Plaza, in KwaZulu-Natal, last night. The KZN Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Bheki Langa, said he “strongly condemned” the unlawful protest […]

Two South African women – Makoma Lekalakala and Liziwe Mcdaid – have won the most prestigious environmental award in the world… for taking on the State, and stopping a proposed nuclear deal in its tracks. The winners of the international Goldman Prize were announced on 23 April 2018. Tonight, current affairs programme Carte Blanche will profile […]

As if ‘lion farming’ wasn’t bad enough, Captured in Africa (CIA) Foundation has revealed that there is allegedly an active lion processing plant in South Africa… where lions are killed in order to obtain their bones for export. The demand for lion bones from the Asian market has increased over the past few years as […]

Thanks to a concerted effort by caring South Africans – both those who donated and those who collaborated in the field – a baby rhino… lost and alone in the wild, was tracked down and saved yesterday from certain death. The call for urgent donations to help search for the baby rhino went out yesterday […]

Khayelitsha residents wake early to find their shacks soaking Nosunset Tshemese tries to remove water from her shack. All photos: Vincent Lali Cape Town desperately needs rain, and the past week’s downpours have helped alleviate the nearly four-year drought. But for people living in informal settlements, rain often means flooding. Vincent Lali visited VT Section […]

This Sunday’s Carte Blanche investigates what’s going on behind a kidnapping spree that has gripped the South African Muslim Indian community. This week’s episode is packed with this story and more… available to South Africans abroad from Tuesday 01 May 2018 if you subscribe to Showmax. Kidnapping Spree in South Africa Kidnapping wealthy business owners is […]

Nineteen lions were allegedly shot last week in South Africa, and another 80 could soon be killed in the Free State. All apparently for the lion bone trade. The news was broken yesterday by Blood Lions, a campaign that aims to bring an end to canned hunting and the exploitative breeding of lions and other […]

The DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard delivered a hard-hitting statement in the South African National Assembly on Tuesday, addressing the crisis of murders in the country – 52 per day… and specifically the ‘special type of murders’ that occur in rural areas. As she pointed out – with horrific and tragic examples – the brutal and […]

The South African government has approved two immediate interventions to restore order and stability in communities of the North West province. One of the interventions includes a task team of Ministers, which will be dispatched to visit the North West to establish the facts on the ground. The task team comprises the Ministers of Planning, […]

Captured in Africa (CIA) Foundation has issued an appeal for assistance to locate and track a baby rhino calf a few hours outside of Johannesburg. The non-profit organisation, in partnership with a K9 anti-poaching and security unit called PitTrack, has a new initiative called K9s for Big Cats… which primarily tracks, locates and relocates missing, escaped […]

Heavy rainfall in the past month (and even some good rain over Cape Town last night) has brought relief in most parts of South Africa, according to the Department of Water and Sanitation. In its weekly report yesterday, the Department said that the average dam levels have increased from 80.6% last week to 81.8% this […]

Now this is unbeatable South African service! SA expat Kate Whalley-Hands experienced a unique and truly South African moment on board an international flight  this week, as she headed home. In a post on facebook Wednesday evening, Kate – who lives in Canada according to her facebook page – shared these glorious photos of South […]

Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has come out boxing after tonight’s DA FedEx (Federal Executive) meeting in which an overwhelming number of councillors voted for the Motion of No Confidence (MONC) in her leadership. Ninety-seven councillors voted for the motion, 41 voted against, 15 abstained or were absent and there was one spoilt ballot. The […]

Deputy President David Mabuza says the recent decision by ratings agency Moody’s to maintain South Africa’s investment grading, as well as changing the country’s outlook from negative to stable, will go a long way in restoring investor confidence. The Deputy President said this when he fielded oral questions in the National Assembly on Wednesday. This […]

NSRI are urging South Africans between Alexander Bay and Algoa Bay to follow the SA Weather Service advisory and be alert to the approaching storm conditions. NSRI advises caution around the coastline today, tomorrow and over the next few days following the Weather Service alerts to storm conditions causing heavy sea swells and rough seas… […]

The IAAF is expected to introduce new rules tomorrow, Thursday 26 April 2018, which could force South African athlete Caster Semenya to take a pill a day to reduce her natural testosterone levels… or compete in longer distances. The controversial rule change, for athletes with hyperandrogenism, could have a significant impact on the double Olympic […]

A video has emerged which claims to show armed farmers confronting protesters in Jan Kempdorp in South Africa last night. A video posted by Ncamim Maphalala to a group on FB at around midnight last night, ‎ says: “As I type this out there are armed white farmers confronting protesters in Jankempdorp in the North-West, with live ammunition!!! […]

Louise Joubert, the incredible founder of SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary, has died in a car accident… just two days after the alleged poaching of a rhino she had worked tirelessly to save from hunters. Louise worked often with SAPeople and we are devastated. SAPeople followers had helped Louise save Big Boy in 2016, when he was […]

South African National Parks (SANParks) yesterday announced the arrests of 12 suspected rhino poachers in the Kruger National Park (KNP) since Thursday 19 April 2018. Two additional suspects were killed during the confrontations. And a SAPS officer at Skukuza was arrested. SANParks detailed the arrests in a media release on 24 April. On Friday 20 […]

Over 30,000 people have liked a post praising the exceptional service that a South African Police Service (SAPS) officer offered to a distraught passenger, on Sunday night at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Gauteng resident Isma Theron-De Witt posted a grateful message and photo on Sunday night, asking her friends to “meet officer Vincent from […]

In true “Thuma Mina” (Send Me) style, British Airways – operated by Comair – gave President Cyril Ramaphosa an unofficial inauguration and welcome aboard a flight from Durban to Johannesburg earlier this week… with an added poetic bonus. BA honoured the President by sending first-time flyer and praise poet, Lutendo Evans Mugagadeli, known as “Vendaboy […]

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) said today that it is honoured to announce that former American President Barack Obama has accepted its invitation to be the speaker at this year’s The 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. The prestigious event will take place in Johannesburg on 17 July, ahead of Madiba’s birthday the following day (International […]

The Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, has safely delivered a baby boy… and her husband Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was present for the birth. The couple’s second son was born at 11h01 on Monday 23 April 2018. According to Buckingham Palace, the newborn baby weighs 8lbs 7oz. “The Queen, The Duke of […]

The National Arts Festival announced today that it will be welcoming acclaimed singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to Grahamstown, South Africa, to present a series of ‘up close and personal’ concerts in July. “We know she has thousands of dedicated fans in South Africa and this is a rare opportunity for them to see her on our […]