It’s a new year, and there’s a bumper crop of brilliant international and South African series, movies and documentaries on the cards. Welcome to 2020! Weren’t we all supposed to be travelling in flying cars by now? Transport might not have lived up to our childhood expectations, but never in our wildest dreams did we […]

Young South Africans in their 20s are known for travelling the world, teaching English in foreign countries… but the opportunity to experience another culture in this way is not restricted to youngsters only. In the ‘Traveling Teacher Show’ video below, South African expat David Lederle – originally from Plettenberg Bay – shares some of his […]

Watch the award-winning Drakensberg Boys Choir perform a moving musical ‘masala’ of African Christmas songs in a shopping mall in South Africa. The video, which was filmed on iPhone XR, was recorded at I’Langa Mall, Mbombela on 30 November 2019… but was only published on YouTube this week. This final treat for the year from […]

It’s the song that’s popular at Christmas, sung by the South African band we all love – the Ndlovu Youth Choir, the musical group from Limpopo that conquered the world when they became finalists in America’s Got Talent earlier this year, and helped raise South African pride and South Africans’ spirits during a particular tough […]

There’s no room for Scrooges on the couch when you binge a bunch of the cheeriest Christmas movies around. Put the sibling rivalries aside – Christmas is a time for caring, overeating and watching a bunch of cheesy movies that’ll melt even the stoniest of hearts. Here’s our pick of the best movies in Showmax’s […]

Just in time for Christmas, Ed Sheeran has posted this video featuring Ella Mai… with beautiful examples of love and dance around the world including couples in Zanzibar, New York, London and more. As the video shows, love comes in all shapes and sizes (with some of the older couples having the best dance moves!). […]

While Durban celebrates being voted Greenest City in the World (for the green spaces in the coastal holiday town), the city is actually making headlines around the planet for its devastating plastic pollution. The UK’s Daily Mail, one of the most read media outlets in the world, said: “Waves of PLASTIC crash towards litter-strewn South […]

The joyous occasion in the beautiful Western Cape town in South Africa was marked by a serious and frightening theme. Barrydale held its annual giant puppet parade and performance on Sunday. Music, dance, dress-up and puppets brought the town to life as it celebrated the tenth year of this event. Titled “The Final Spring”, the […]

Eish, South Africans may have one of the sexiest accents in the world… but turns out it’s also one of the most difficult to master, even for someone who once played a magician! Watch the ‘Escape from Pretoria’ official trailer below, and you’re likely to wish Harry Potter could wave his magic wand and improve […]

Comedian Kevin Fraser has posted another brilliant video that sums up a slice of life on a beach in South Africa. The South African expat – who now lives in Australia, but stays closely in touch with South Africa, with regular tours back home – is a master of accents and plays them all in […]

Princess Charlene of Monaco has posted a cute video message that’s being shared around the world. It features her and Prince Albert II’s twins – Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella – on their 5th birthday, leaving a special message for Princess Charlene’s mom (Lynette Humberstone Wittstock) back in South Africa. Apart from the twins being adorable, […]

Watch the moment below when the largely American audience at the Miss Universe contest in Atlanta, USA, went wild for the powerful words delivered by Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi, who was crowned Miss Universe 2019 at the event last night! When asked the most important thing we should be teaching young girls today, the Eastern […]

Tonight’s episode of Carte Blanche is a Must Watch. You can view it on DStv Now if you’re in South Africa, and by streaming it from Tues 10 Dec on Showmax International in most other countries. Can South African Airways be saved or should it be grounded? With bailout after bailout over the years, South African […]

Been waiting for the Trackers finale so you can watch it all at once? Binge-watch the whole series on your phone with Showmax’s new Mobile plan. Have you been waiting for the full series of Trackers to drop on Showmax so you can watch it all in one epic binge-watch session? If you can watch […]

Here’s how to switch to your decoder at your holiday home, or better yet, watch DStv Now on your phone or laptop while you’re away. Planning a family trip to the beach or going back home for the holidays? Don’t miss out on your favourite soapies or faves like Carte Blanche and the Sunday night […]

Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal just played host to a group of South African grandmothers from Gauteng for an incredibly special week in their lives. The first time they ever saw the sea! And these grannies didn’t just see it – they played, they swam, they laughed like children again. The amazing trip for the 24 grannies, […]

There’s a heartwarming and heartbreaking South African video that’s been going viral around the world in the past week… viewed over nine million times, and liked by over 200,000 social media users. UPDATE: Unfortunately it appears the young boy in the video lied, for whatever reason, to the person filming. The video features a young […]

On 9 May 2019 the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”. While this number is dramatically lower than the most recent academic estimates, there’s no doubt koala numbers in many places are in steep decline. It’s hard to say exactly how […]

A video going viral on Twitter has captured on film the incredible moment when a worker hanging onto corrugated sheets on the back of a bakkie becomes totally AIRBORNE on the busy N2 motorway in Duban, South Africa! It could have ended in tragedy with the sheets of aluminium appearing to have not been tied […]

Nando’s has done it again! The fast-food chicken restaurant chain has produced an advert that pokes fun at the South African government and cuts to the truth of current life in SA. The commercial encourages South Africans to play a game that’s a lot like Monopoly but includes South African twists such as the ‘token […]

This incredible CCTV footage from South Africa shows an armed robber being robbed himself by a customer he held, up after the customer did a cheeky SAS style crawl to hoover up stolen loot the original robber had dropped in the raid. The brazen robber had pulled out a gun and ordered a shop owner […]

Check out South Africa actor and singer Robbie Wessel’s tribute to Siya Kolisi (and the Springboks in general) in his latest music video below. With words like “When we come together, we’re the best we can be” and the Springbok’s successful hashtag #StrongerTogether… it’s sure to warm the hearts of South Africans everywhere. Robbie said: […]

In the lead up to an epic season finale of Trackers tonight at 8pm, M-Net and its partners have released the hit series’ theme song, “This is War”. And in tonight’s nail-biting conclusion it is almost war as a suicide team target Cape Town Stadium. Trackers has been a culmination of world-class production and a […]

As South Africa’s President Ramaphosa holds his Investment Summit, the future of a KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) citrus farm is in jeopardy, with a feud in the area leaving 40 people dead and 700 people facing the loss of their jobs. With just weeks left to save the farm, Carte Blanche tonight investigates what’s gone down and […]

South Africa’s popular Ndlovu Youth Choir and award-winning flutist Wouter Kellerman have been awarded an international accolade at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in the USA. An elated Kellerman said on social media Thursday morning (Wednesday night US time): “Fantastic news!! We just heard we won the HMMA (Hollywood Music in Media Award) with […]