A massive African python being carried on a pole caused traffic to stop on the South Coast of South Africa yesterday. According to reports, the snake – which was being transported along the N2 near Umgababa, south of Amanzimtoti – was between four and five metres long. Watch video below. Pumula resident Yolandi Pearce told East Coast Radio’s Newswatch […]

Maybe Home Affairs in South Africa could learn a thing or two from Australia’s tough Agriculture and Water Resources department. This is how you get a message out to the world about your country’s laws – enlist a law-breaking Hollywood actress and her famous husband to make an apology video! While many South Africans have been stopped at Australia’s border […]

Although Cape Town is one of the richest cities in Africa, with endless beauty, delicious cuisine and an outdoor lifestyle sought by tourists from around the world – the rate of gang-related murders in the city’s Hanover Park are amongst the highest in the world, and drug use is rampant in townships. But there is hope. An intervention […]

So where in the world are the Gupta brothers? Dubai? India? Saxonwold? Turkey? They’re alleged to have made EFF Julius Malema’s wish come true and left South Africa last week… but nobody – or nobody who’s talking – has sighted them since. Times Live uploaded this video trying to track them down… just like a Where’s Wally challenge!

Durban photographer Kierran Allen has reworked his “I am Durban” timelapse video to present this breathtaking short film. Kierran says: “Shooting this film is what sparked my interest in timelapse, all those years back… running around Durban trying to shoot the best shots possible. And it paid off in the long run.” Kierran teamed up with […]

South African comedian Thenjiwe Moseley has released a spoof video asking her “biological daughter” Beyoncé to come home to South Africa with her husband, so she can have a traditional Zulu ceremony and make the ancestors happy. In the light-hearted video, poker-faced Thenjiwe says Beyoncé was christened Busisiwe, and that as a toddler little Busi loved Zulu dancing and that she […]

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton earlier this week was endorsed by her former colleague New York mayor Bill de Blasio, although things didn’t go off so smoothly. When Clinton said it had taken de Blasio long enough to endorse her, he said he was on “CP time”, a racially charged expression meaning “coloured people’s time”. Standing […]

Four Instagrammers were invited by South African Tourism to embark on the trip of a lifetime – their own long walk to tracing the legendary footsteps of the late legendary South African prisoner and president, Nelson Mandela. The #MeetSouthAfrica video follows Dabito, Christine, Caitlin and Blake over two weeks as they learn about “one man’s […]

The Afrikaans folk song ‘De la Rey’ which became a hit in South Africa for Bok van Blerk in 2007, has been given a Zuma overhaul by a local singer in Langebaan. Charl van Heyningen uploaded the following video saying: “Donnie from Langebaan puts a new spin on this major Afrikaans hit, taking the mickey out […]

Real or fake, the ‘Snowboarder Girl Chased By Bear’ video on YouTube has had more than a few people guessing – clocking up over 2.8 million views in a couple of days. The video, posted by a ‘Kelly Murphy’ – who only created her YouTube account on 5 April – appears to show Kelly video-ing herself while snowboarding, […]

An Egyptian student captured the following video of his recent school trip to Cape Town and surrounds. Youssef Hanna was part of an excursion that the American International School of Egypt offers its students with a leaning purpose outside of the classroom. Watch Video: Cape Town – as seen by Egyptian student, Youssef Hanna The group visited […]

Take a listen to this exquisite South African version of Adele’s ‘Hello’… sung in Zulu by Esperanca de Tavares. Richard van Schalkwyk, from Richard Henry Productions, who filmed Esperanca’s performance says “she did a great job translating the song and singing it virtually unrehearsed. Sound recorded in camera. No studio.” Watch Video: ‘Hello’ in Zulu Today Billboard.com announced that […]

Louis Oosthuizen is the latest South African player to have brought an element of surprise and entertainment  to the US Masters at Augusta National in the USA this past week…after successfully hitting a deflected hole-in-one! TV commentators said they’d NEVER seen anything like it in their lives! This follows Gary Player’s record-breaking performance, becoming the oldest golfer – at […]

According to this spoof advert “Truthpaste is the only certified toothpaste that helps you lie through your teeth”. ZANews first uploaded the video in November, but re-shared it yesterday on Facebook, saying: “6 out of 6 of the ANC Top 6 who lied recommend it. Tell lies, feel nothing!” Clearly, with the Panama scandal et al […]

The Brothers Streep have released a lighthearted fun song – “Let’s Go To London”… where they leave South Africa’s currently ‘bleak’ shores for the so-called greener pastures in London…but they don’t stay too long… The song ends with the words: “We made a mistake, South Africa’s great / It’s got problems, but it’s not too late […]

The Sharks are spreading a whole lot of love…and some fun…with what might be a first for South African sport – a ‘Kiss Cam’ at a Sharks rugby match. Watch Video: Kiss Cam at the Sharks Match Were you caught on our Kiss Cam this past weekend? Posted by The Sharks on Thursday, 31 March […]

Like many expats, although Susanna van Aswegen left South Africa when she was only nine, she will forever share “a special and unbreakable bond” with the country…as can be seen in this video. The twenty-year-old filmed the following footage – a love letter of sorts – on a recent holiday to South Africa. Her mother Christa told SAPeople: […]

South Africans have been called on to set aside Saturday 16 April 2016 to hold “organised discussions” and brainstorm the best way to bring about the resignation of President Jacob Zuma. The call for action to “secure” Zuma’s resignation was made by a group of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, academics and representatives from unions, […]

South Africa’s corruption crisis is making world news, with expats as far away as Thailand being able to watch President Jacob Zuma’s entire speech (with subtitles for Thai) regarding the Nkandla #PayBackTheMoney issue. It’s come as a welcome break for Trevor Noah on The Daily Show – being able to talk about his own South African […]

They say life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. And as British photographer ALEX NAIL has discovered, the Drakensberg Escarpment provides a platform for an abundance of those moments. His video of the dramatic landscape in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has swept social media […]

Oops – a South African website’s April Fool’s Joke has made a lot of Adele fans very excited…for nothing! The site posted a story with the headline “ADELE Confirms SA Tour for November 2016”, claiming that Adele had added South Africa to her 2016 Tour and that fans should book quickly as tickets for Cape Town […]

If you missed it – watch Evita Bezuidenhout’s April Fool’s joke yesterday. Ironically after she (well he – Pieter Dirk Uys) posted this video late Thursday night, President Jacob Zuma did make an announcement to the nation on Friday evening. However, while many expected him to resign…he only apologised (albeit the first time since the #Nkandla […]

Cliff divers Orlando Duque and Jonathan Paredes went in search of a challenge – and found it at Victoria Falls, Zambia, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. “This is one of the most beautiful places,” says Duque, who, with 13 cliff-diving world titles, two Guinness world records and more than 20 years […]

You never know who’s going to join you in a South African swimming pool nowadays! Particularly if you’re in a game reserve or living anywhere near monkeys and baboons! Staff at the Ingwelala Nature Reserve in Limpopo were surprised 10 days ago when they arrived at work to find a rather large hippopotamus in their pool! […]

British entertainer Ronnie Corbett has passed away at the age of 85 after suffering from ill-health for the last couple of years. The comedian, who was popular around the world including in South Africa, was best known for being one half of the Two Ronnies comedy sketch on television. Western Cape radio presenter (Magic 828am) Brian […]