Watch Oscar Pistorius Sentencing Live

By SAPeople 13-06-16 16:46

The murder trial for athlete Oscar Pistorius returns to the High Court in Pretoria today for sentencing. Watch it live below. UPDATE: View photos and wrap up of Oscar Pistorius trial today. Pistorius is being sentenced in the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp who he shot and killed in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013. […]

Lambie Out for Next Test and Boks Admit “We let Ourselves Down”

By SAPeople 12-06-16 00:36

Springbok pivot Pat Lambie has been ruled out of the second test match of the Castle Lager Incoming Series against Ireland next weekend after being concussed in the series opener at DHL Newlands which Ireland won 26-20. Lambie was injured in a tackle that saw Irish flanker – and fellow South African – CJ Stander being […]

Springboks Take On Ireland Today with #LoveRugby Emblazoned on Jerseys

By SAPeople 11-06-16 14:53

The hashtag #LoveRugby will appear emblazoned on the back of the Springbok jersey in the first Test against Ireland in Cape Town, South Africa, today as SA Rugby (SARU) reclaims the “good story” they have to tell but which is not always heard. The Springboks kick off at 17h00 against Ireland at DHL Newlands in […]

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Cullinan Ancestor at US Auction Where SA Diamond Sets Record Price

By SAPeople Staff Writer 11-06-16 10:11

A diamond found in South African in 2014, the Cullinan Dream, has become the most expensive Fancy Intense blue diamond sold at auction, according to Christie’s. The diamond sold in New York this week for $25,365,000. In the audience was Mark Cullinan, an international jewelry dealer and the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Cullinan, who discovered the Cullinan […]

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Free WiFi Starts on Cape Town’s MyCiti Bus Service

By SAPeople Staff Writer 11-06-16 09:07

The MyCiti bus service in Cape Town has launched a free WFfi service on a number of its buses, and will continue the rollout gradually. The programme will begin on Monday. MyCiti said in a statement on Thursday the pilot on-board wifi offering will provide each passenger on a number of buses in the city centre with 50MB of data […]

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Penny Sparrow Fined R150K for Racist Words Posted Online

By SAPeople Staff Writer 10-06-16 19:07

More than five months after KwaZulu-Natal realtor Penny Sparrow hit world headlines for posting a racist remark on Facebook about the black people on the beach over the festive season, she has been ordered to pay R150,000 to the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation. In her post Sparrow compared the beachgoers to monkeys, unleashing a […]

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“Disappointed” SA Firefighting Body Apologises to Canada

By SAPeople Staff Writer 10-06-16 18:51

Working on Fire, the South African group whose team of 281 firefighters went to help fight wildfires in Canada, said on Friday it was “extremely disappointed” with the turn of events this week when its team refused to work for two days over a pay dispute, which then “escalated into an international incident”. “To have a […]

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Mango Loses Longtime CEO to Africa’s Low-Cost Upstart fastjet

By SAPeople Staff Writer 09-06-16 18:21

One South African airline’s loss is another African airline’s very valuable gain, it seems. Mango, the low-cost sister airline to South African Airways, is losing its CEO Nico Bezuidenhout, who many credit with the airline’s success while SAA stumbles from crisis to crisis. He is moving to the six-year-old African low-cost carrier fastjet, where he will also be CEO. […]

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SABC Bans Reading of Newspaper Headlines on Radio Stations

By SAPeople 08-06-16 22:47

After recently banning the footage of violent protests on SABC, it appears that the South African national broadcaster’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has now also banned the reading of newspaper headlines on all SABC radio stations, a practice that is common around the world. The Democratic Alliance (DA) said in a statement that they have been “reliably […]

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ANC Youth League Cancels Plans to Disrupt Springbok Matches

By SAPeople 08-06-16 19:37

In a joint statement Wednesday from SA Rugby and the ANC Youth League it was confirmed that plans to disrupt Springbok Test matches have been cancelled, as a result of “positive engagements between the two bodies”. ANC Youth League Secretary General Njabulo Nzuza said that although rugby still had much work to do, his organisation had […]

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SA Leaders Meeting Over Terror Threat Warning by US

By SAPeople Staff Writer 08-06-16 18:07

The security cluster of the South African government met on Wednesday to discuss a warning by the United States that shopping malls in Johannesburg and Cape Town could be a target for Islamic militants during Ramadan. In a statement, the presidency said it had “noted the security alert that the United States government has issued to its […]

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SANParks Wants to Put an End to Latest Wildlife Sightings Apps

By SAPeople 08-06-16 22:03

Mobile apps that allows visitors to national parks to share information on exciting animal sightings are resulting in rude, lawless and dangerous behaviour that has led to road kills, according to South African National Parks (SANParks)… and legal channels are being sought to curtail the use of these apps. In a press statement today, SANParks said the […]

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SA’s Latest Cheetah is the Fastest Computer in Africa

By SAPeople Staff Writer 08-06-16 21:05

South Africa’s CSIR has unveiled the fastest computer in Africa, which has been named Lengau, the Setswana for cheetah, it was announced on Tuesday. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Centre for High Performance Computing showed off the petaflops (PFLOPs) machine in Cape Town. “This is a supercomputer with processing speed capable of a thousand-trillion […]

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