Here’s a BIG shout out from the students of Pietermaritzburg College in KwaZulu-Natal to save our rhino. It’s better than Chinese Whispers. It’s the Rhino Shout Out Challenge… South Africa’s rhino faces extinction if poaching is to continue at its current alarming rate. Yesterday it was announced that 550 rhino have already been poached in South Africa […]

On Earth Day 2015 Durban photographer Kierran Allen and 44 other photographers from around the world captured time lapse footage of the place each calls ‘home’. Watch the compilation below…and look out for Durban and Cape Town which are both featured. The global video was shot on five continents, in 11 time zones on 22 […]

Capetonian-based photographer Eric Nathan has captured an enlightening 15 seconds worth of load shedding in Cape Town. Eric uploaded the time-lapse video below which starts off with the city of Cape Town almost blacked out sans electricity during Eskom’s infamous load shedding…followed by the effect of the power being restored as house, office and street lamps light up the […]

Check out these two videos from Mount Everest, uploaded  today from South African team base camp manager Rob Bentley. One of the videos captures the avalanche as it started. “Just before it hit,” he wrote. “Never knew I had my camera rolling!” The other, uploaded by SA Team Leader Sean Wisedale shows Rob, moments after the […]

South Africans love braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and…South African ads! Even decades later anyone who was around in the ’80s can finish off that sentence or the legendary Cremora one: “it’s not inside, it’s…” (scroll down for the ad). It’s one of the many things South Africans excel at – producing good quality creative TV commercials (TVC) […]

Sjoe – try watch the video below without getting just a little emotional. And definitely crank up the volume – as, in the words of the late Nelson Mandela, “it’s music and dancing that makes me at peace with the world…and at peace with myself…let’s join.” In this show performed in France in 1999, legendary South […]

Tourists in the Kruger National Park recently got a fright when a buffalo used them, well their vehicle to be exact, to get lions off his back. The video was uploaded by Kruger Sightings on Monday 20 April 2015 and has already had over 180,000 views! The video was filmed by South African holiday makers in […]

Remember the 1980s TV series “Ballade vir ’n Enkeling”? Well, it’s back, better than ever. The mystery, once again, is about a journalist’s quest for the truth behind the disappearance of a famous writer, Jacques Rynhard. Slowly she uncovers the secret past of a liberal loner in search of freedom. The film (and a simultaneously […]

Check out the videos below for an awesome look at Cape Town and surrounds…and the incredible abundance of beautiful scenery and outdoor activities on offer. Both videos were filmed in the last month, with Bryn North’s version including footage of the landscape since the recent fires that raged across the Southern Peninsula of the Western […]

There has been an outpouring of poems, videos, messages and photos from people in and out of South Africa, desperate to express themselves, have their voice heard…and unite South Africa and Africa once again. Here are just two of the messages SAPeople has received – a video from a young white South African and a poem from a […]

On the same night that Nando’s #FiredUpSoweto launch is trending high on Twitter, the famous restaurant chain’s 2012 Diversity advert has gone viral again as its message (that most of us were once foreigners) becomes appropriate to present day South Africa. And the recent xenophobic events in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Joburg were clearly on most people’s […]

South Africa’s favourite DIY (Greek) Goddess has launched her own online shop so that now, seriously, “anyone can”! This does mean that SuzelleDIY’s bitesize web-series is now likely to include product plugs in each episode, but if the first is anything to go by, Suzelle is aware that nobody wants to just watch a cleverly disguised commercial. In her first […]

The first year students at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University have spread a little Ubuntu with a 2-minute video project compiled for their Computing Sciences class. “The aim of our project is to do a community service as part of a team work exercise in our programming module, to teach us some soft skills,” Head of Department […]

Something a little magical happened in Cape Town this weekend. A mist came rolling in…and the cameras came out. Here’s a collection of photos, as well as a video, that captured the beautiful scene… It started on Friday evening. Elza Bester DeJager said: “Something different tonight – Table Mountain floating on the mist coming in from the […]

An African American male, Will Stack, has made a video message after being pulled over by a caucasian policeman. His video, which he uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, has gone viral and already been viewed by over 1-million people. Its message hits home for Americans…and for South Africans who are now sharing it too. Stack […]

Family Comedy ‘Strikdas – ‘n Familie gedoente’ has opened with a bang at the box office in South Africa and online worldwide with South Africans abroad being able to watch the movie at the same time that their families back home are doing so. The quirky new comedy earned R1 219 664 on its opening weekend. By the […]

As Robert Mugabe announces during his two-day visit to South Africa that he doesn’t want to see a “white face”, and the Rhodes Statue is removed, an old Monty Python video is being shared on social media today… The Zimbabwean President made his remark yesterday after visiting the Hector Pietersen Memorial in Soweto. As he was being […]

You might remember him as the frontman of the band Fokoffpolisie and later Van Coke Kartel. Now Francois Van Coke is going solo, with his first 12-song album just released and titled after the singer himself. The first video, released on April 7 on YouTube – a lyrical ballad Toe Vind ek Jou which he sings […]

Singer songer-writer Pharrell Williams has announced he will be visiting South Africa in September. He posted the following tweet two hours ago: “Proud to collab with retailer @Woolworths_SA. Are you with us, South Africa? See you in September! #PharrellWithWoolies” Before you could say ‘happy’, the news was trending at number one in South Africa with […]

A teenager from Randpark High School in Gauteng has recorded a hauntingly beautiful song about the struggle of moving away from home and fitting in with a new crowd. The song – “I’m So Tired” – is about Kelly Johannes’ own move from Cape Town to Johannesburg…but will resonate with South Africans abroad who’ve made an […]

With Easter coming up South Africa’s favourite do-it-yourself Goddess, SuzelleDIY reveals all the secrets for how to make perfet animal cupcakes in the shape of bunnies and chickens. As Suzelle says “DIY? Because it is Easter!”…and always remember the 5-second rule! Watch Video: SuzelleDIY – How to Make Animal Cupcakes And in case your outfit’s a little too […]

Scatzy.com – the new VoD (video on demand) platform for indigenous movies from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand – launches their service today, 2 April, with the release of ‘Strikdas’ on the same day the film will be available in movie theaters in South Africa. This means that South Africans anywhere in the world will be […]

Scatzy.com – the new VoD (video on demand) platform for indigenous movies from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand – launches their service today, 2 April, with the release of ‘Strikdas’ on the same day the film will be available in movie theaters in South Africa. This means that South Africans anywhere in the world will be […]

The award-winning Kearsney College Choir pulled off their “first successful Flash Mob” last Friday night at a supermarket in Hillcrest, and in the presence of the beneficiaries of the event, Hillcrest Aids Centre. The flash mob (or flashmob) was held at Hillcrest Kwikspar on 20 March and uploaded to Facebook a couple of days ago. […]

The Cannes Film Festival 2015 has announced that ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ has been officially selected to be screened Out of Competition at the famous film festival on the French Riviera. The film will be shown on Thursday 14th May at the Grand Théâtre Lumière (that’s the main movie theatre at the festival). It’s been 30 […]