A video has emerged of South African prop Trevor Nyakane doing the macarena a la Welsh flyhalf Dan Biggar. In a friendly, good-humoured skit, the SA rugby player “gets his dancing shoes on and does the Dan Biggar dance” (according to the YouTube description). Dan has become renowned for his goal-kicking ritual (see video at […]

South Africa’s national cricket team was almost as happy as Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer after Fourie du Preez scored a try last night at Twickenham, against Wales, to ensure South Africa’s inclusion in the Semi-Finals of the Rugby World Cup tournament. Watch below as the Proteas react to the try. Dale Steyn uploaded the video […]

It’s hard not to get chills as you listen to former President Nelson Mandela’s voice in the video below: “It is my dream – win or lose – that every South African will once again walk on the moon…” As the Springboks faces Wales this afternoon in the 2015 Rugby World Cup (RWC) quarter-finals in London, […]

New Zealand’s ‘The Crowd Goes Wild’ (CGW) sports show has compiled this light-hearted video comprising a press conference with the Springboks and footage – speeded up – of them training on the Pennyhill Park manicured field (which matches that of Twickenham)…as if it’s a Benny Hill skit. Last weekend the Springboks moved into the English team’s training camp at the […]

Mozambique was declared clear of landmines only last month, and one of the reasons which made it possible was because of the little-publicised rats that have been trained to sniff out the deadly explosives. Widely known as Hero Rats, they are part of a programme run by the nonprofit organisation APOPO, whose slogan is “we train rats […]

The title of Evan Haussmann’s video says it all: ‘How to film a charging rhino (and not crap yourself).’ Says photographer journalist Haussmann, who took the video in 2012 (although it continues to get circulated for the ‘rush’ it gives): “So I’m minding my own business while working in the greater Kruger area and this […]

Bryan Habana’s having a blast at the Rugby World Cup (RWC). He’s equalled a world record, celebrated his victories on the field with his adorable son, and went to visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace last night. And through it all, he remains humble. Look at this message he wrote after equalling Jonah Lomu’s world record […]

Here’s some soul food straight from the Western Cape…fresh and fabulous (with foam on top). ZAAHID APPOLES captured this video of the waves and sounds of the ocean at the DaleBrook tidal pool and rocks in Kalk Bay, as well as bright and beautiful pictures from a “stunner Muizenberg and Fish Hoek beach”. Watch (and Listen) to […]

A short video showing South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma struggle to read a couple of numbers is going viral on social media at the moment. The footage is taken from the president’s speech last week at the ANC National General Council (NGC) meeting in which he detailed the drastic drop in his party’s membership from 1,220,057 […]

When Namibian model Behati Prinsloo married rock star Adam Levine last July, it broke the hearts of millions of his fans around the world…but perhaps none more so than this little girl, Mila, who only recently found out! Watch her reaction as her mother tells her the news. It’s priceless, and the video has already […]

The Rugby World Cup (RWC) in England is heating up with less than a week to go till the quarter finals where South Africa will meet Wales. As the RWC bids farewell to the many teams who have not made it through to the quarters (including host country England!), it is perhaps Japan who will be […]

Just in time for the worldwide release of the highly anticipated Danny Boyle movie ‘Steve Jobs’, about the Apple founder, a South African version of the trailer – with a couple of ‘bliksems’ and ‘voetseks’ thrown in – has been uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/H_tnqZ_686w The movie stars Michael Fassbender as the legendary but controversial Jobs, as […]

In one of the funniest SA’s Got Talent moments this season, a Soweto-born and Sandton-raised comedian (therefore, as he says, “technically a coconut”) secured three ‘yes’ votes with the following stand-up routine. Thirty-year-old Mum-Z, who works in advertising and does comedy on the side, didn’t hold back in highlighting the advantages of being a ‘coconut’ […]

Two of the most popular wildlife videos on YouTube, watched millions of times already, are of grown men playing with lions as if they were their pet kitties. The scenes of human-animal love are so intoxicating, it makes everyone want to go out and do the same, walk with a lion, pet a cute little cub. […]

KFC South Africa have uploaded a new advert to YouTube that you’ll either find very funny…or a little distasteful! The commercial starts with a scene very similar to that in which Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning found himself in, on 19 July this year, in Jeffrey’s Bay…when he had a close encounter with a shark […]

Many people have welcomed Al Jazeera’s portrayal of Africa in a segment on ‘UpFront’ called ‘Reality Check: Africa is not a Country’. Some said it heralded a welcome contrast to the depiction of Africa that is often presented by other large global news media of a continent filled with doom and gloom that needed outsider […]

South Africa. A place where you can dive into swimming pools or sky dive above breathtaking scenery. Surf the wild ocean or cruise the wild safari parks. Spot monkeys on your neighbour’s wall and dodge cows on the road. These are a collection of video memories since 2010 from Ronald Langeveld who filmed the following clips “on […]

In 1987, when Martin Pistorius was a 12-year-old in Johannesburg, something happened. His whole body shut down. For the next 12 years, he stayed that way, trapped inside himself. Until the shut-down, his mother Joan told an American radio interviewer earlier this year, Martin was a bright child who from the age of three had said […]

The ‘South Africa’s Got Talent’ audience was on its feet Sunday night when DJ Arch Junior, all of three years old, took to a digital music deck and handled the jog wheels and transport controls like a pro. Oratilwe Hlongwane from Alexandra township has reached the semifinals of the show’s national competition. He’s the youngest person to have ever been on the […]

In her latest DIY video, Suzelle explains how to make a vertical or hanging garden using a bunch of old plastic bottles. Her planting gets done so fast that she spends the rest of the time singing. Go, Suzelle! Watch the SuzelleDIY video ‘How to Make a Vertical Garden’

Charlie Simpson, the British singer who busted up his band Busted, is in the news for rejoining the band, but it’s his collaboration with a group of San Bushmen that has got us tapping our feet to the unforgettable beat. It’s great! The song ‘Walking with the San’ was played last week on the show ‘Singing in […]

Just two days ago it started as a campaign to get 12 likes on Facebook against a popular series of ads by Telkom, but already it has got a whole lot more than a dozen. The one-man (or is it the one-band?) campaign is against the well-known adverts that some see as cute, others as […]

In the United States they have been doing it for years, taking a night off to ‘roast’ – basically make fun of (in the harshest possible way) – a famous person. Anyone who has seen Amy Schumer’s infamous roast of Charlie Sheen knows that to be roasted is pretty much to be gutted. In 2012 […]

Here’s what one YouTube user imagines a David Attenborough nature documentary would sound like “if David had been from Vereeniging” in South Africa. Afrikaans4Dummies uploaded the following video saying “Everyone of all ages grew up with the iconic voice of BBC naturalist, David Attenborough. His crisp delivery captivated and mesmerized us, and for many it […]

You never know what you’re going to find up one of the alleys in Kalk Bay, a gem on the False Bay side of Cape Town, and it just makes you want to explore. So says one of the locals interviewed by musician Arno Carstens in a recent video about the artist-town-meets-fishing-village. The video gives you a good […]