American R&B artists, The Manhattans, received an awesome welcome at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, this morning. The vocal group’s hits include million-selling songs “Kiss and Say Goodbye” (1976) and 1980’s “Shining Star”… but it was South African fans who were singing to them this morning. The Manhattans will be performing in Johannesburg […]

A couple visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa filmed a rare sighting of a pride of lions – including an endangered white lion – trying to hunt a porcupine. Retired Beryl Salottolo told Nadav Ossendryver from Latest Sightings that she and her husband, Gules, set out early one morning from their camp at Satara […]

For all those who missed Akani Simbine’s brilliant win in the 100m race at the Gyulai István Memorial in Budapest yesterday, the South African athlete has uploaded a video of the race. (Watch below.) Writing on Facebook, Simbine said: “Unfortunately, my races were not televised. Here is a video of the 100m race from yesterday. Thank you for […]

Grammy Award winning record producer, DJ and musician Anton Zaslavski – better known as Zedd – says his trip to South Africa earlier this year was “literally the most amazing trip I’ve ever done in my life!! ?.” The Russian-German electronic music producer, who has over 2.7 million fans on Twitter, was in South Africa for […]

South African actress Charlize Theron gave an impassioned speech at the opening ceremony of the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, calling out racism as an underlying cause of the AIDS epidemic and insisting that it is not “an honour” for SA to be hosting the AIDS conference for the second time in 21 years. The AIDS […]

After an extensive visit to South Africa, a group of boardriders have declared that it is “a land of diversity. Mountainous coastlines vs drought ridden desert. The lavishly rich vs the street begging poor. The wildlife of the savannah vs the wildlife of the city. No other country in the world boasts such dramatic contrast.” Writing for Quiksilver’s […]

Check out the legendary waves at Kalk Bay harbour in the Western Cape, South Africa. Filmed and edited by David McMaster, he captions it: “Man vs Nature, digitally harnessed and slowed down 10-20x. (Watch in HD & with headphones/speakers).” The music is Open Spaces by Zak Hemsey. Watch Video: Kalk Bay Collisions https://vimeo.com/173244720 Photos of […]

It’s been 10 months since Trevor Noah took over The Daily Show from Jon Stewart. Asked how he thinks it’s fairing – he proudly gave the show a passing grade. But he’s not getting comfy just yet. There is still more he wants to achieve… Source: Reuters

Moms around the world are all the same! Patient! Watch this mom patiently put up with her cubs as two of them play not only around her as she tries to sleep… but ON her. And all this while a third is intently suckling on Mom in the background. The footage was filmed by Farrell Ben […]

As brilliant South African swimmer Chad le Clos prepares for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil – and the moment he will go head to head with Michael Phelps again – he has revealed what his focus on the #RoadToRio is in a very moving documentary – “Unbelievable”. (See Trailer below.) While his race against […]

In Evita’s latest episode, she asks “Does every dark Hlaudi have a silver lining?”… referring to the SABC’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng. Leading up to the 2016 South African Municipal Elections and the 20th year celebration of her theatre in Darling, Evita se Perron, Tannie Evita has committed herself to broadcasting a Sunday recap of the week’s […]

A video of an angry elephant charging and flipping over a car in a Mozambique game reserve has gone viral… for the second time in three years! Thanks to the video being posted earlier this month on Facebook, it has had a resurgence and been reported in South African and international media outlets as if […]

South African DIY guru Suzelle takes her best friend Marianne on safari in her new YouTube episode… and introduces fans to someone new – ‘Ryno in the Bush’, who happens to be Marianne’s boyfriend! Ryno, who has launched his own YouTube channel, describes himself as “a freelance game ranger specialising in tracking, wild flowers and bush […]

As two horrific shootings of black people by police in the US and the tragic fatal shooting of five policemen in Dallas by snipers yesterday – with one of the suspects reportedly saying before he died he wanted to kill all white people – leave many Americans divided (Pro-cop and anti-black or anti-cop and pro-black?), Trevor Noah says, […]

In an interview with eNCA, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, who has grown noticeably slimmer over the last months, was asked by the journalist how he lost so much weight. “Quit sugar,” was one of his suggestions.

Watch the sentencing of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius live today. The former Olympian and Paralympian was found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, after an earlier ruling of culpable homicide was overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal last year. Today’s proceedings, with […]

The sentence in the trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who was found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, will be delivered tomorrow. Ironically the former Olympian and Paralympian’s fate is to be determined by the same judge – Thokozile Mosipa – who originally […]

Several days after a slight majority in Britain voted for #Brexit, and to leave the European Union, sending financial markets into chaos for several days and many people regretting their vote to leave the EU, Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” takes a funny but informative look at what it was all about.

For his latest album, “Johnny Clegg 2016”, the South African singer of “Scatterlings of Africa” remixes some of his most-loved songs and gives them a fresh dance beat. Watch the latest rendition of “Take My Heart Away (High Society Remix)”, shot by Jaron Clegg in Diepsloot: The 17 tracks, including “Great Heart” and “Scatterlings of Africa”, offer new remixes that […]

The video of three baby rhinos crying for more milk has now reached over 5 million views! If you haven’t seen it yet, watch below… The video was first uploaded to YouTube in mid-May by Working with Rhinos, along with this message: “These orphaned baby rhinos watched as their moms were killed by poachers in […]

On the anniversary of the death of a lion in Zimbabwe, which was known to researchers as ‘Cecil’, Four Paws organisation has taken stock of the trophy hunting situation. One year ago, on 1 July 2015, “Cecil” the Lion was killed by an American trophy hunter in Zimbabwe. The circumstances surrounding his death exposed the excesses […]

Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa launched an Anti-Racism Song on Wednesday to “tackle the continuing salience of race and racism and the negative role social media has played in spewing the racial bigotry”. Speaking at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg yesterday the Minister said music can play an important role in fostering social cohesion and building a non-racial society. In […]

At last night’s sold-out Sentebale Concert at Kensington Palace, Prince Harry joined the musicians on stage to thank the star-studded crowd for standing in the rain, the Basotho Youth Choir for coming all the way from Lesotho, and Coldplay for headlining the charity gig. “You rocked the palace,” he said. The youth choir was invited to […]

The ‘We are South Africa’ video concept was formulated a couple of years ago to showcase some of the many aspects of South Africa. I see the world in SA! From the people that live here, to the minerals, landscapes and biodiversity… But there is an underlying political tone that instead of trying to bring all South […]

Interesting garden visitors aren’t anything new in South Africa – where squirrels, monkeys, baboons, even deer can make their way into our yards… but Betty’s Bay resident and academic Van As Jordaan recently had a slightly more rare visitor – a leopard! He captured stunning photos and the video below of the special visit to his […]