One South African, Pepe Marais, has been interested in changing the face of education for a while now. If you think that is a tall order for one person, that makes two of us, says Mongezi.
Mongezi meets stroke survivor George Scola, who is celebrating life by walking from Beit Bridge to the Cape.
CNN’s Robyn Curnow talks to the Johannesburg artist about his work, which is making waves from the Louvre in Paris to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The winners of the Get Wildly Creative About South Africa contest have been announced. Here are the top entries.
BSA Blog will send a makarapa, authentic Bafana shirt, scarf and vuvuzela with sockzela to the creator of the best vuvuzela version of the tuba mirum from Verdi’s Requiem, as judged by our readers.
The ghosts of Salvador Dali and Magritte come to Cape Town with a vuvuzela.
England looks to isiZulu for a little inspiration to help bring home the World Cup for the first time since 1966, writes Mongezi Mtati.
Mongezi Mtati explains his absence and we meet the winner of the Football Friday Fashion Funk contest.
Cobus Potgieter, 23, is the most subscribed to South African on You Tube. This youngster from East London started like everyone else with homemade videos. He is now a great sensation.
This week the forests around our house are being transported to the homes of rural folk on the heads of African women, writes Bethany Joy, a native of Ireland, presently living in KwaZulu Natal.
People everywhere are pimping their rides with car flags waving from windows, bandanas hanging from rear-view mirrors, or the innovative Mini Cooper mirror socks on every make of car, old and new.
He revolutionised Internet commerce with PayPal. His Tesla electric roadsters are the hottest things on four wheels. His company SpaceX is at the cutting edge of commercial space flight. He was made in SA.
Here’s a glorious gallery of images featuring the flag. We’d love to showcase more. So upload yours to your favourite photo-sharing site and send us a link.
In which our multi-talented contributor Fatima Jakoet interrupts a delightful lunch in a panic that she may have left the stove on at home.
Unafraid to push boundaries, Nigel and his team — sports and news presenters Brandon Baatjies and Sandra Rosenberg and Knobbo “the sidekick” — set out to wake up the city with all sorts of crazy antics and discussions.
Traditionally, there used to be a rift between soccer supporters and rugby fans, but this change completely transforms the outlook I had, says Mongezi Mtati.
New York Times’ Celia Dugger raves, justifiably, about “Songs of Migration”, the cabaret-style show that has just finished a wildly successful run at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre.
Mbongiseni Nyembe is an aspiring hip-hop artist and stand-up comic in Soweto. Here are a couple of impromptu examples of his of talent and energy.
Jolandie Rust is about to bicycle 40,000 km around Africa. Sponsor one of those kilometres.
Who knew you could do the Diski Dance from your desk and get some practice before embarrassing yourself in public. If you have two left feet that is.
“The World Cup is at Northgate Shopping Centre” is what you would have thought had you been there this past Tuesday.
When I first heard about You Make Joburg Great (YMJG) on Facebook, it struck me as an interesting and interactive concept. We took a moment to chat to Dean who is know as the brains behind it.
I challenge you to take a fresh look at our amazing Mzanzi. Go on a journey, find the possibilities and who knows you might just like Kahn Morbee – “.. be thinking of a time I felt inspired.”
When it comes to creating amazing ads, South Africa has some of the best talent anywhere. Check out this promotion for the M-Net television channel. The company that made it is Orijin, located in the Johannesburg area. Its work is getting noticed.
There is so much to do in Cape Town that choosing where to go on a sunny day can be daunting. We have just had one of those beautiful weekends and so many options lay before me that I only started moving by late afternoon.
Two takes on the new Mbombela Stadium being readied for the FIFA World Cup in Nelspruit. The bead version does it for me. You can almost hear the roar of the crowd.
America’s National Public Radio profiles “A Voice for South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Generation”, Lebo Mashile.
They may be at a rugby match, or doing whatever it is people do when dressed as chickens, or even getting married, but the folks at South Africa’s National Sea Rescue Institute will be there when you find yourself in peril on the deep.
The one on the right is being modelled by Jay Hipps, co-founder of centrelinesoccer.com, at the Confederations Cup final between the US and Brazil. The hat’s magic ran out in the second half when Brazil turned a 0-2 deficit in to a 3-2 win.
IMC’s Simon Barber visited the Johannesburg atelier of David Tlale, one of SA’s leading fashion designers with New York writer Jessica Seigel. While she interviewed, he took these pictures. Learn more about David here.
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