If the Los Angeles Times has its way, South African-born Margaret Sixel will win the Academy Award tonight for her brilliant editing of the Charlize Theron movie “Mad Max: Fury Road”, Sixel’s first action pic. “Margaret Sixel’s Herculean effort cutting together the massive amount of footage shot by her husband, George Miller, is the favorite,” […]

Drumming up support for  their ICC T20 World Cup campaign in India next month, the Proteas have released their own rendition of the Pitbull’s hit Fireball. Maybe there’s also a career in music! Watch the video above or below. .@faf1307 is on FIRE &in leopard print in the Proteas’ latest video. #WATCH #Fireball here: https://t.co/UyEfBMoqDx pic.twitter.com/yulQugBzdO — […]

Check out South African big wave surfer Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker wiping out at yesterday’s awesome Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau event. The annual event in Hawaii, nicknamed The Eddie, only runs if waves are over 40 feet high! The last time it was able to run was in 2009. Speaking about the 3-second free fall […]

Comedian Mark Angel’s weekly videos are fast becoming a staple diet for comedy lovers around the world, with the Nigerian entertainer’s niece Emanuella becoming quite the star! They’re funny, cheeky, not always politically correct and sometimes quite off the wall. Lately the videos have been racking up hundreds of thousands of views – with “After-School Lesson” receiving over 1 million […]

A group of South African school students were interviewed by Morning Live’s Leanne Manas following the Post-Budget Breakfast Briefing Thursday to which they had been invited. Their praise for Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan comes at the same time he is said to be in a stand-off with the head of the SA Revenue Service Tom Moyane. Gordhan […]

Many people know “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – a song often associated with the movie “The Lion King” – but few people know the famous tune was born in a small town in South Africa almost a century ago. In tribute to that song – originally titled “Mbube” – we thought we’d post several of the countless wonderful versions that have been done […]

The British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard has begun an attempt to run 27 marathons in South Africa – or 1,126 kilometres – in 27 days, one for each of the years Nelson Mandela was in jail, and all in aid of Sport Relief. The British non-profit Sport Relief organises events where people run for charity, and […]

A quick safari goer managed to film a rhino that began charging across the veld, not realising that it was aiming for a white vehicle right behind her.

Host of the Daily Show Trevor Noah told his audience this week that if they thought the U.S. Presidential race was crazy – with bad-hairdo businessman Donald Trump shocking everyone by winning state after state in the race for the Republican nomination – they should check out Uganda. “Americans say this (Trump’s ongoing success) is […]

Check out this performance by former South African expat Gavin Edwards that everyone’s talking about tonight. His rendition of ‘Say Something’ on TV singing contest The Voice South Africa had judges fighting over him and set social media on fire. In fact, there was even a little #ProteaFire involved when AB de Villiers tweeted his […]

With all the Grammy 2016 talk being focussed on the microphone that fell on a piano during Adele’s performance, and Taylor Swift becoming the first woman to win a Grammy of the Year award twice (as main credited artist)… you may have missed this magical moment from Benin musician Angelique Kidjo as she accepted the Grammy […]

The Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson made a speech to Parliament last week that some people on social media compared to a person on an acid trip, talking about bad cheap wine, juvenile delinquents, EFF leader Julius Malema being unable to be a mother, and a cow licking a fire. But, as has been pointed out in news reports recently, […]

Transport yourself to Hout Bay for a day with this spectacular video – majestic mountains, picturesque harbour, beautiful vineyards, enticing markets, water that sparkles and people who shine… https://vimeo.com/155955362 *** If you’re looking out of a grey London window right now, why not bring some sunshine into your life with the Homecoming event on 4 and […]

The rescue of the cutest baby elephant by two brothers in Phalaborwa, South Africa, has been caught on film. The Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) uploaded the video saying: “Bela, originally thought to be a female, has been renamed Amanzi, which means water in Zulu. When you watch this clip, it will make sense why…” According to […]

Last year LLOYD KOPPEL was invited along for both the local and international #meetsouthafrica bloggers’ road trips… to film and capture their experience on video. “What a privilege to travel around South Africa with some of the best travel bloggers and travel writers in the country. Amazing people! Amazing road trip!” says Lloyd of the first video. […]

If you haven’t already watched it – here’s  possibly the most popular video to come out of South Africa this week: Chief Whip of the Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen letting the government have it… He was speaking in Parliament during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) reply sessions, which have seen some other interesting speeches […]

They say when the cat’s away, the mice play… but it looks like the cats love to play too! We’ve all done this! Check out this mama lion having some fun with her hubby. South African National Parks uploaded this video to Facebook Thursday, saying: “Just when you thought lions don’t fool around in their spare […]

The SONA2016 debate might be over, and while there were some pretty low points, there were also some highs worth remembering. One of them was the speech of the Democratic Alliance’s Zakhele Mbhele. Only 31 years old, and the shadow minister of police, he talks the talk a lot better than parliamentarians twice his age. And […]

For anyone who loves animated movies like “Finding Nemo” or “Wallace and Gromit”, Cape Town is the place to be for the next four days as the Cape Town International Animation Festival offers a glut of movies and talks and workshops from around the world. Included in the features available will be the highly praised […]

CAPE TOWN – Parliament descended into minor chaos Wednesday afternoon after the chief whip of the Democratic Alliance John Steenhuisen told the presiding officer that he could not tell COPE leader Mosiuoa Lekota to withdraw the word “faction” when referring to the ANC. Steenhuisen said that by telling the Congress of People’s leader Lekota that labeling […]

A video of a South African Police Service (SAPS) unit hard at work has emerged, showing that it’s not all skop, skiet en donner in the SA cop force! Although it is movie scene fast car (well, motorbike) chases… The video was uploaded by CICA (Crime Intelligence & Community Awareness) on Valentine’s Day, reporting that the […]

Many South Africans have had enough of the racism – from all quarters – that’s been magnified since Penny Sparrow’s New Year’s Eve comment. In this video, Renaldo Gouws – who describes himself as “that crazy South African that fuels his existence on sarcasm and facts” – responds to the F*ck White People “movement”… And in […]

One of the things many South African expats miss is a spectacular lightning storm… so when the lightning strikes, on a trip back home – they capture it! Bev Tromp – formerly from 5FM – took these pics on Sunday evening during her holiday back to South Africa. “It was one of those wonderful wild crashing, light up the entire […]

Kite boarders from 11 nations waited for the windiest day for the perfect conditions to fly high – and on Wednesday and Thursday they got it. “With iconic Table Mountain as backdrop – both wind and sea delivered some pumping conditions,” said the organisers of the Red Bull King of the Air 2016 competition. Watch some […]

The walkout from Parliament on Thursday night by the Economic Freedom Fighters has already got lot of attention in the media, although some people have started sharing videos of the sign language interpreters who had to repeatedly interpret “Zupta Must Fall!” which the EFF chanted before and while leaving the chamber. “They did a great job,” […]