During the highs and lows of SONA2015, Twitter outdid itself, with tweeters inside Parliament suddenly becoming reporters (especially on those things the SATV cameras so obviously turned away from). An excellent and speedy video tweet from JacarandaFM’s @MornéJK actually crashed SAPeople.com for a while, so many people wanted to see the EFF being confronted by […]

Canadian photographer Kristian Holmes fell in love with a South African…and ultimately with her country, or more specifically with the city she was born and raised in – Johannesburg. Kristian and AJ (who is now his wife, also a photographer), have put together a wonderful list of why they love Jozi. And we love it! […]

You know the drill. You move overseas and your first foreign friend (or even a guy in the queue at the post office) asks you whether lions roam the streets of South Africa, if Joburg’s roads are paved with gold, and whether we all live in trees. And it’s the same if you stay in […]

Yesterday SAPeople and other facebook pages shared a photo that had been uploaded to FB by Mbali Ndhlovu showing an entrepreneurial homeless guy on a street corner, offering Zulu lessons in exchange for cash (at the very reasonable rate of R1 per word!). Some people suggested “give that guy a Bells”. Well today he’s been given […]

In case you’ve missed them, here’s a selection of some of the best Ice Bucket Challenge videos from the last week…from the Springboks to Charlie Sheen…raising millions of dollars and awareness for ALS/MND. (And then there’s the guy who wants to shut it all down!) ALS Ice Bucket Challenge featuring Joost van der Westhuizen One […]

The Ice Bucket Challenge has finally hit South Africa…and here’s all you need to know (especially the problem with its name!): What’s the Point of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? It’s to raise awareness and funds for research on ALS and the hashtag to use on social media is #ALSIceBucketChallenge. Since the social media craze […]

Whether you live in South Africa’s most dynamic metropolis, or you’re just passing through, here – with kind permission – is renowned South African writer Gus Silber’s take on how you can make the most of it… Learn to appreciate the dawn chorus of the hadedah, for the touch of the bushveld it brings to […]

I must confess that I’d never read much of Mark Gevisser before someone at work in New York brought me this book because it had Johannesburg in the title and I was a South African. They thought I’d relate. Which I did, except it was more to the title than to the author. At last, […]

We love Jo’burg! I have always been a fan of Johannesburg, but never more so than a few weeks ago, after spending only four days there. This city is pulsing, pulling in vibes and influences from all over the world to create a metropolis quite unlike any other. Even the people who live there are […]

South African music legend Johnny Clegg was taken by “complete ambush” (his words) when he joined Martin Bester Drive (MBD) radio show in November 2013. The Jacaranda FM radio team had a surprise in store for him…that turned into a tearjerker for both Johnny and the studio team themselves! MBD had contacted Johnny’s musician son […]