Houston, Texas, has experienced “catastrophic flooding” like nothing seen before. Officials said Hurricane Harvey caused “landmark” flooding over the weekend which will be felt for years, and warned that more heavy rainfall is expected in the coming days. So far at least 8 fatalities have been confirmed; and over 30,000 people are expected to have […]

Most of us want a farm in Africa… but there’s a family in Durban who appear to have made that dream come true for themselves right in the suburbs! Although it’s not quite what it seems. The wealthy Abdoola family in South Africa are apparently storing the 100 odd sheep, plus some goats, for the […]

While attention has been focussed on the Riverlea, Soweto, violence this morning where protesters torched Rea Vaya bus station… across the country in the Western Province, the normally quiet Overstrand area was also victim to a march which turned violent. The Overstrand Herald described the scene in Kleinmond as looking like a “war zone” and advised […]

The 84 Mrs Universe contestants who arrived in Durban have been taking in the sights and sounds of the city as they settle into an intensive schedule that combines work with play. On Friday evening, the contestants got the chance to get to know each other over dinner at Casa Bella in Umhlanga. They were […]

Yikes, as if humans needed more reminders that using one’s phone whilst driving any vehicle is NOT a good idea – here’s one more. A man in Beihai City in China plunged into a 2-metre deep sinkhole…  because he was too busy looking at his smart phone to notice the ground had opened up in […]

The surf was pumping in South Africa on Thursday – with huge waves at famous surf location Jeffrey’s Bay, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa… as well as wild surf at Onrus Beach in the Western Cape that made the beach disappear! Jeffrey’s Bay photographers ROBBIE IRLAM and MAARTEN VAN DE VELDE captured the action […]

Durban today rolled out the red carpet and gave the world a taste of KwaZulu-Natal’s trademark warm hospitality as it officially welcomed international Mrs Universe contestants to the South African province. Women from more than 80 countries will compete for the Mrs Universe crown at Durban’s Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre on 2 September 2017. Durban clinched the […]

A female Saldanha marine pilot has made history by becoming the first female to hold an Open Licence certification to guide ships of any type and size in and out of South African ports. And the young mom – who calls her husband her ‘rock’ – is only 30! Salmaa Vincent was able to apply […]

Cape Town property developers FWJK have promised that their planned city centre skyscraper will include affordable housing – but the price of the “affordable” apartments will be “less than R800,000”. If it is given the go-ahead, the Zero-2-One skyscraper planned for the corner of Strand and Adderley Streets will be the tallest building in Cape […]

The accused men in South Africa’s notorious #CoffinAssault (Coffin Assault) case – Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen – have been found guilty of attempted murder. The case rocked South Africa and caused racial tensions when a video that the white men had filmed of themselves, on a farm in Mpumalanga, showed them forcing a black […]

South African afro-pop musician Vusi Nova has been successfully found, after being hijacked early Friday morning – betwen 04h30 and 05h00 – outside his home in Melville, Johannesburg. After anxious calls in Gauteng to look out for the kidnapped artist, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa confirmed he is safe, tweeting: “We’re relieved to hear […]

South Africa’s world long jump champion Luvo Manyonga and 800m champion Caster Semenya ended their seasons unbeaten, with two sparkling performances at the Weltklasse meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday night. Manyonga won the long jump with a leap of 8.49 metres on his fourth jump, one centimetre further than his world championships winning distance […]

Cape Town’s talented sand artist Michael Myekwa (33) will be back on Fish Hoek beach, South Africa, tomorrow morning, thanks to the support of the local community – particularly a fellow artist – who have rallied together to ensure Michael obtains the all-important permit allowing him to do so… The community had been devastated when […]

South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), says it has received confirmation that their complaint against Bell Pottinger has been upheld, and that the ruling will most likely be on 4 September. This means that the UK’s trade PR trade body – PRCA (Public Relations & Communications Association) – agrees that “Bell Pottinger did […]

Tributes have poured in from around the world for anti-poaching activist and “silent hero” Wayne Lotter, the 51-year-old South African who was fatally shot last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Wayne was travelling by taxi, late at night on 16 August, from the airport to his hotel on the African city’s Msasani Peninsula when […]

The NSRI Simon’s Town sea rescue crew successfully disentangled a Southern Right whale that had become entangled in rope off-shore of Clovelly, between Kalk Bay and Fish Hoek, on Tuesday evening. Photographer ROB TARR was there to capture the action… “I scooted around there this evening and managed to find parking among the gazillion onlookers! […]

A reward of R5,000 is being offered for any information which might lead to the identification and arrest of a suspect who has been captured on a video – currently circulating on social media – which shows a man cruelly beating up a dog and throwing it mercilessly against a hard rock surface. Much of […]

SAPeople co-founder, and former South African expat, Amanda Stergianos, has launched one of SA’s first websites to provide an online marketplace for the multitude of amazing small businesses around the country. Every business on The Vendory has a story about real people and why they do what they do. This is The Vendory’s story…   […]

The family and friends of 13-year-old Anchen Muller from Cape Town, South Africa, are frantically searching for the teenager who went missing on Friday night. UPDATE Wednesday 23 August 2017: Anchen was found Tuesday night and is safe and unharmed. Her aunt, Mariette Dalton, has posted the following message asking for help: “URGENT!!! My sister’s […]

Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is accused of assaulting a young woman while on a visit to South Africa. A week after the incident in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg’s upmarket central business district, a South African government minister announced that she had been granted diplomatic immunity. She has subsequently […]

The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana, has resigned and apologised to South Africans, particularly women, following the recent incident of assault he was in involved in, in which he beat up a woman at a club in Gauteng, which is before the court. The former Deputy Minister handed his resignation and […]

A beautiful new short film for iconic South African salt brand Cerebos has been featured on the top advertising sites around the world including Shots and Adforum, and was named World’s Best Ad of the Day by the prestigious AdWeek. SAPeople followers, Lyndall Vanderyacht told SAPeople: “My brother from Durban just made this beautiful Cerebos […]

Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State in South Africa until a year ago, has written a book on the country’s higher education sector. As by Fire – The End of the South African University is one of a number of recent books that set out to make sense of the current […]

South Africans can look forward to entering most national parks for free when SA National Parks (SANParks) launches its annual week on 17 September 2017. Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa will officially launch the week at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park (GGHNP) in the eastern Free State (see pic above). Since its inception in […]

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum and Advocate Gerrie Nel, Head of the organisation’s Private Prosecuting Unit, today announced at a media conference that they would support Gabriella Engels to “see that justice prevails” in the assault charge that Engels has brought against Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe. The support entails, amongst other things, that Adv. […]