If you’re from the Western Cape and have never ventured to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), this video may change your mind. And if you’re from the KZN North Coast and now live inland or overseas…this footage – including the old Salties rock pool, cycling through sugarcane fields and running with a dog along the beach – will draw you home…at least in your […]

Comedy Central has announced the debut date for South African comedian Trevor Noah to take over The Daily Show in the USA. The 31-year-old will debut as host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning show on 28 September. Its current popular host, Jon Stewart, will have his final broadcast on 6 August. The two men collaborated on a brilliant, and short, […]

The surprise in South Africa is not that President Jacob Zuma will not have to “pay back the money” for the R246-million upgrades to his Nkandla homestead…but the lengths Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko took to justify his decision at not finding the President liable for costs. Minister Nhleko delivered his Nkandla Report on Thursday, just a day after the […]

The Springboks have officially launched their Rugby World Cup Campaign with a launch video and a new website. The message for the campaign is clear: Give the Springboks #HomeGroundAdvantage …anywhere in the world. The video includes some classic lines that are sure to give fans goosebumps. Sentences like “2015 is our year. We are the ones we’ve […]

There is hope for the rhino. South Africa’s youth are making their voices heard, and in the latest #RhinoShoutOutChallenge two fierce school rivals have come together to shout out in one voice: Save Our Rhino. Hopefully other schools will follow the example set by Kearsney College and Maritzburg College in KwaZulu-Natal. The boys came together […]

A time-lapse video about a Great Dane, uploaded by South African director Dave Meinert, is fast approaching 1-million views on YouTube. Meinert, who is based in Cape Town, uploaded the video about his Great Dane Pegasus just eight days ago.  Dave, who is one of the few movie makers who actually enjoys working with animals, rescued […]

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 […]