Finding love isn’t as simple as planting corn, caring for cattle or keeping horses – and it’s this massive challenge that has got people hooked on Boer Soek ’n Vrou, kykNET’s hit reality series. Watch now » In the tenth season, Minki van der Westhuizen returns to help 10 farmers find lasting love. The season […]

DURBAN – Sibusiso Matrick Mbhele, the Durban hero who captured the hearts of South Africans, has been reunited with the stranger he saved during the horrific Durban storm on Tuesday 10 October 2017, which claimed at least eight people’s lives. A photo of the Time Freight driver bravely wading through the flooded N2, bare-chested and wearing […]

Tourists in the Kruger National Park found themselves having to change a tyre with lions in the vicinity, after one of the lions bit their tyre… Apart from the fright the lions gets, the South African family’s conversation is just as entertaining! Watch Lion Bites Tyre in Kruger Park   According to LatestSightings, which uploaded […]

Watch this beautiful rendition of South Africa’s national anthem – Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – as sung by a group of SA expats in New York this weekend. Durban born, Joburg-bred singer, songwriter and former junior radio producer at Hot 919 FM, Lyla Illing – who can be seen in the video, on the guitar – […]

Not even the rain could dampen the festivity at Seaforth Beach, Cape Town, yesterday as a group of penguins was released by SANCCOB. Photos by Nigel Riley. SANCCOB (the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) released 13 African penguins – 4 adults and 9 blues – in front of an enthusiastic crowd […]

A distressing video that was posted on Saturday, and is going viral, appears to show security staff at a Shoprite outlet behaving badly and pulling a tearful little girl as her mom is handcuffed… however the security personnel in the video are NOT from Shoprite. (Watch video below.) The video has created a backlash against […]

For the fourth consecutive year, South Africa is taking part in the (truly) Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions… to raise awareness for our endangered iconic wildlife, writes Megan Carr, VP Social Media, GMFER. The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos (GMFER) is an entirely volunteer based, grassroots activist US-registered non-profit organisation. The theme […]

Tour guide and regular SAPeople contributor Lloyd Koppel was “hanging out” on his balcony in Walker Bay, De Kelders (Western Cape, South Africa) yesterday with some guests, when a beautiful sight unfolded in front of them… watch below. “Beautiful moments. There was a lob-tailing Southern Right Whale in front of the house. This went on for over […]

KwaZulu-Natal resident Cristelle Barnes is still desperately seeking a woman who was driving a white car, which was involved in an accident last week in Durban, South Africa. Christelle posted a message to Facebook on 28 September asking friends to share her “CRY FOR HELP” in the hope it would reach the lady. She wrote: […]

While South African President Jacob Zuma has extended his condolences to the government and people of the United States, following the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada… SA comedian and talk show host, Trevor Noah, has given America his take on the tragedy. At least 59 people were killed and more than 527 others […]

Watch this dramatic footage of 80 ton whales in Hermanus, South Africa… Video and text by Luke Bell. Every year large numbers of Southern Right Whales travel from the Antarctic to the warmer Walker Bay off the coast of South Africa to calve and mate. Located about an hour and a half out of Cape […]

Watch the trailer below for the new Lifetime Movie – ‘Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer’. The movie – starring South African expat Andreas Damm – chronicles the events of the night that famous SA athlete Pistorius shot and killed his then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home… which ultimately led to him being found […]

The South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) successfully rescued a whale today that had become entangled in rope… in what was the furthest disentanglement operation to date. The whale in distress was at least 45 nautical miles off-shore, between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. The juvenile Humpback whale – of approximately 14 metres – was horribly […]

South Africans are loving a new Chicken Licken ad which features an Icelandic boy Bjorgen, living in Iceland, whose memories of a previous life as a South African – Frikkie – cause him to squawk like a hadeda, wear a comb in his socks (!) and say voetsek to dogs… His behaviour leaves his parents […]

Here’s this week’s Carte Blanche line-up for South Africans abroad. SA expats can now watch their favourite SA current affairs programme just two days after it airs in South Africa, if they’re subscribers of Showmax International. (Watch the trailer below.) KPMG: The Unravelling The so-called SARS Rogue Report, compiled by KPMG, had devastating consequences for the […]

A cute video of a baby hippo and a baby rhino playing together at an orphanage in South Africa has been shared around the world by small and major news outlets, including MSN. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/HelpingRhinos/videos/1662663127086707/ The video shows baby Charlie, an 18-month old hippo, playing with six-month-old Ntoto. But while the video is adorable… […]

The turn-out for the South African expat get-together in the UK to celebrate Heritage Day on 24 September 2017 was so awesome, we’ve got more pics and videos here to celebrate…   The event for South Africans abroad was hosted by the South African Diaspora United Kingdom with main sponsor, Showmax International (which streams popular […]

Well known ‘dieredoktor‘ Dr Pieter Engelbrecht is happy to be alive after a very close call with a leopard on Tuesday. In a post on Facebook, he described it as “wild Africa on the East Rand”! The popular South African vet (from Via DSTV 147) got an unexpected call from the farmer that a wild, fully […]

Take a break… and watch this video compilation of baboons behaving badly in South Africa. It’s havoc! Earlier this year the City of Cape Town urged residents to ‘baboon-proof’ their homes, supplying two-pin lockable bins and a host of tips including never leaving food on display (even pet food), installing burglar bars and only putting […]

Watch below in a scene that Australia’s media are calling the most heartbreaking footy grand final defeat of the year. West Wallsend were playing rugby union against Cardiff in a Newcastle women’s rugby league match, in New South Wales. Wallsend was so close to winning the premiership with a 6-4 lead when the final whistle […]

A new music video is trending, featuring the words of EFF leader Julius Malema with the term he uses to refer to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma – ‘uBaba ka Duduzane’ (father of Duduzane). Malema says he calls Zuma this because ‘President’ means ‘father of the nation’, and Zuma has proved that he puts his […]

This is not a new video – but it’ll give you goosebumps nonetheless if you love Africa and its wildlife. It’s the real deal – not the fake lion roar you often hear in movies. Latest Sightings – Kruger, who uploaded the video a year ago, said the lions were seen in the middle of […]

Check out the ‘boxing grannies’ of Joburg, filmed by Shayne Robinson. “In a small little gym in a community centre in Cosmo City is where I met a really amazing man,” says Shayne. “Claude Maphosa is a former bodybuilder and the owner of the A-Team gym.” Claude says he got the opportunity of a lifetime […]

DStv Premium customers have some good news to celebrate this week. Having a DStv Premium account now means getting access to internet-streaming service Showmax at zero (to be clear, that’s nil, zilch, nada) additional cost!!! Here’s a list of what to watch first… Access to Showmax means getting access to over 25,000 series episodes, movies […]

They say South Africans aren’t sissies, and a lot of pictures are shared proving our ‘toughness’ – see below… but then scroll down further to watch a Halloween prank video that shows, just maybe, South Africans can be sort of sissies sometimes… We occasionally have baboons in our gardens and in our cars… And they’re […]