South Africans are mourning tonight as news comes that Jenna Lowe, who raised so much awareness on the importance of organ donation, has passed away. The 20-year-old suffered health set backs a couple of months after receiving a new set of lungs in December 2014, and her family had recently relocated from the Western Cape to […]

Kalk Bay delivered huge waves and big seas yesterday afternoon, as evidenced by these spectacular photographs taken by Robyn Gwilt. “Yesterday after much promising, there was ‘delivery’!” she says. “A few of us got wet, but hey… what’s a little water in your boots when there are waves and deep swells around? The power of […]

South African athlete Bianca Buitendag surfed her way into second place at the Fiji Women’s Pro yesterday. She and Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons battled it out for top prize in heavy conditions on the final day. Ultimately it was Fitzgibbons who triumphed, showing sheer determination to win the event (for the second year in a row) by overcoming a […]

Two questions Robert Mugabe probably rarely gets asked, mostly because he doesn’t give reporters a chance to ask them, are “Don’t you think it’s time to step down?” and “When will there be change in Zimbabwe?” Well, plucky journalist Adeola Fayehun from SaharaTV asked Mugabe these probing – Uncle Bob probably would have called them […]

Freshlyground’s new music video showcases a kaleidoscope of South African faces and scenes (yes, there’s a braai) that will have you feeling emotional without quite knowing why. As images are flashed on screen, they tug at the heartstrings with faces that show the struggle, the pain, the pride, the play, the passion, the love…the people. […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is NOT happy with the new visa regulations which came into effect yesterday, 1 June 2015. And in a bid to have the laws reviewed, the opposition party today posted an infographic detailing the “disastrous consequences” and encouraging others to share it. These consequences, according to the DA, include a drop of 24.6% in Chinese visitors […]

Recently re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter (79) has announced his resignation just days after being elected for his fifth term as President of the world’s football governing body. Blatter said he realises that FIFA needs a “profound overhaul” and that his re-election does not seem to be supported by everyone. He said he felt compelled to stand for […]

Professional kitesurfer Nick Jacobsen made an amazing jump off the top of Richard Branson’s Necker Island on Sunday. The subsequent video includes cool footage as the Danish kitesurfer launches himself from 131 feet above sea level. (Watch above.) Nick became widely known as a daredevil in kitesurfing circles after he jumped off a crane in South Africa […]

The football community has reacted with shock this morning as Kaizer Chiefs (KC) announced they are parting ways with several key players, as well as confirming that coach Stuart Baxter is leaving the team even though there was still one year left on his contract. It was revealed at a press conference this morning that Itumeleng Khune, […]

Congratulations to Cape Town’s The Test Kitchen which is the only restaurant in South Africa to be included in the World’s Top 50 Restaurants list, announced yesterday in London. The South African restaurant was also named the Best Restaurant in Africa. In fact it is the only restaurant on the continent to make it into the Top 50. […]

The Lion Park has reportedly confirmed tonight that the lion which fatally attacked a female tourist in the South African park today will not be put down. There have been a frenzy of tweets on Twitter since the news broke this afternoon that a 22-year-old American tourist was mauled to death by a lion which bit her through […]

Well over 300 years ago, a slave ship on its way from Mozambique to Brazil crashed on to reefs in stormy seas off of Cape Town. Half of the 400 or more slaves were lost. The ship was the Sao José Paquete Africa. In Cape Town tomorrow (Tuesday 2 June 2015), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of […]

Tributes have been pouring in for Hog Hoggidy Hog frontman, George Bacon, whose death on Saturday morning came as a shock to his family and the entertainment community. The band had only just kicked off their national #HogsAreBack tour the evening before, at The Assembly. According to an official statement which was released today, the 40-year-old passed […]

If South African President Jacob Zuma thought that the Police Minister’s Report last week would put an end to demands for him to ‘Pay Back the Money’, he couldn’t have been more mistaken. An avalanche of jokes have hit the print and social media; the Democratic Alliance has vowed to pursue the issue, the Public Protector […]

Comedy Central has announced the debut date for South African comedian Trevor Noah to take over The Daily Show in the USA. The 31-year-old will debut as host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning show on 28 September. Its current popular host, Jon Stewart, will have his final broadcast on 6 August. The two men collaborated on a brilliant, and short, […]

The surprise in South Africa is not that President Jacob Zuma will not have to “pay back the money” for the R246-million upgrades to his Nkandla homestead…but the lengths Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko took to justify his decision at not finding the President liable for costs. Minister Nhleko delivered his Nkandla Report on Thursday, just a day after the […]

Trevor Noah has denied reports in the South African media that his cousin was brutally murdered. In two messages on Twitter yesterday, and another one on Facebook an hour ago, Trevor said: “Thanks to some crafty journalism my family and I spent the whole day yesterday trying to figure out if one of us had […]

German racing driver Nico Rosberg may have been the surprise winner in today’s Monaco Grand Prix, but all eyes were also on the Principality’s Princess Charlene who looked racy, fabulous and totally stylish throughout the weekend’s events. Rosberg’s Mercedes team-mate, British racer Lewis Hamilton, was devastated when a decision (which he has confirmed both he and Mercedes made) […]

A pilot in South Africa managed to execute a textbook emergency landing on Thursday at Lanseria International Airport. And it was all caught on film by aviation photographer Adrian Munro. When the nose wheel of the Partenavia AP68TP ZS-OYN failed to release, the pilot performed a near-perfect landing, balancing the plane on only two wheels for a short […]

South African expat, Major General Bernadus Groenewald, is making headlines in Fiji, Australia and New Zealand with his bravery. Groenewald, who happens to be the Commissioner of Police in Fiji, confronted five thugs at a Suva restaurant, armed only with a chair! In a story headlined “Heroes of the Night”, the Fiji Times said the […]

It has been announced today that missing South African Shaun Michael Beukes has tragically passed away. He was only 34. (This article has been updated at 18:50 SA time.) In a message just over an hour ago on a Facebook community page, Pay It Forward, Gregory Wills-Clifton said: “It is with profound sadness and a broken […]

It must be said: I’ve been blessed. For a blonde whose claim to fame used to be jumping out of helicopters (for a TV show called Treasure Hunt) I got to meet and appreciate so many great men and women in this well-talented country of ours. Yes, the opportunity to hunt down treasures of the […]

Against all odds, the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI-Kirstenbosch) was yesterday awarded a Silver Gilt at the Chelsea Flower Show for what is its 40th exhibit at the famous Royal Horticultural Society show!  Congratulations to designers David Davidson and Ray Hudson and the team of SANBI staff and volunteers who worked tirelessly to achieve […]

There is hope for the rhino. South Africa’s youth are making their voices heard, and in the latest #RhinoShoutOutChallenge two fierce school rivals have come together to shout out in one voice: Save Our Rhino. Hopefully other schools will follow the example set by Kearsney College and Maritzburg College in KwaZulu-Natal. The boys came together […]

Democratic Alliance Federal Leader, Helen Zille, delivered her final speech as DA Federal Leader this morning. Below is the full transcript of her address to the DA’s Federal Congress delegates at the Boardwalk Convention Centre in Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth (PE). Writer Suzanne Brenner ‏summed up the speech with the following tweet: “And so endeth the reign of […]