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There are more questions than answers after international businessman Martin van Breda, 54, his wife Teresa, 55, and their 22-year-old son, Rudi, were hacked to death with an axe in their multimillion-rand home on the De Zalze Winelands Golf Estate, near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape of South Africa.

It was twitter heaven at 6am GMT today, Facebook, Instagram and others were down after an alleged hack.

A 23 year old man, Toufiq Joseph, was gunned down at an Engen Petrol station in Cape Town. H20 owner David Forbes has been charged with murder at the Cape Town Magistrates Court.

We are not allowed to say they are racist – or sexist - but they don’t want any more white male pilots. We are not allowed to say they are incompetent because that would be racist. What we can say is that they are bankrupt…

The two people in this car was robbed while filling up at an Engen petrol station on the R21 between Kempton Park and Pretoria.

It's scary to think this is the reality of living in South Africa but if this was just a Hijacking or they wanted to Kidnap the people that we don't know yet.

This CCTV video shows just how easy it is for criminals to target you and when you least expect it and rob you of your valuables in the process.

This is the "one that got away" that they will never forget. Not only did it get away but the boat sunk as well.

The most amazing part is that this car dealership in America thought it was so funny they would post the video on the internet.

Zuma's ‘land reform’ sounds more like ‘land grab’.

The Zulu Royal Household has blown the R54 million allocated to it this year by the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature more than two months before the end of the financial year and has requested “top-up” funding of R10 million.

Returning for the Summer holidays to South Africa is a bit of a South African abroad tradition. Most if not all book well in advance and always on the lookout for great deals but hundreds fell victim to a scam this year.

In South Africa they call them ‘bakkies’; loosely translated a ‘bakkie’ is a bowl. Like a soup bowl. But when a South African tells you about his ‘bakkie’ (farmers just love their ‘bakkies’ and they talk about it more than about women), it is mostly his proud and joy: a...

People do tend to get nervous on long-haul flights and end up behaving erratically and at times stupidly. But this is just taking the mickey. A South African woman with an extremely long name - Nomantangwa Angel Babhekile Johansson – has been charged in Canada after a disturbance on an...

UK government officials said it was “disappointed” with a ruling by the European court that Britain cannot impose a blanket visa requirement on family members originally from outside Europe but who have valid EU residence rights.

A South African couple knifed each other to death in front of their children in a horrific tragedy.

The influence of the Prince of Darkes (the CEO of Eskom) can be felt much further than many may think – this time its even hitting TV advertising as intense loadshedding (rolling blackouts) have dire implications for television advertisers and broadcasters.

In a strongly worded statement quoting international human rights and humanitarian law, the South African government has condemned the terror attacks in Pakistan in which 132 people, mostly school children, were killed.

It’s time for Christmas shopping if you are a rhino poacher in South Africa. But some of the poachers are not having it all as merry as they hoped to have it their own way.

One billion viewers watching on television around the globe as Miss South Africa, 22-year-old Rolene Strauss, was crowned Miss World 2014 at the competition’s grand finale in London.

Now that Eskom has started speaking to the public the contradictions, lies, the the real status of the existing power plants and the efforts to restore production comes out.

We are not surprised at all but the fact that it's the first and only known public opinion he has given regarding the blackouts IT IS NUTS!

The leader of the African National Corruption (ANC) party, Jacob Zuma – apparently he is also president of South Africa - has blatantly refused in parliament to answer any question on the cost of his recent trips to Russia.

It's a moment a lot of tech firms have been waiting for. CloudFlare, the worlds most well known and respected CDN network has opened the doors for South Africa and the rest of Southern Africa by opening up a data center in Johannesburg.

When you're going to an event that honours one of the most well-known people who ever lived, you should probably know who he was.

Blackouts are debilitating South Africa’s economy and the lives of the poor souls living there. Meanwhile, Eskom and its pathetic management are lurching from one disaster to the next.

Fewer than 2 in 5 South Africans approve of South African president Jacob Zuma’s leadership.

While South Africans are truly suffering during the latest bout of load shedding having to spend several hours and sometimes days without electricity, the power ‘utility’ Eskom’s ‘prince of darkness, Tshediso Matona, inspires no confidence that the true nature of the problems facing Eskom are being addressed.

Today was a sad day indeed for South Africa but the damage is done and we need to face reality.

Yet another criminal case completely screwed by the State's legal incompetence. UK businessman Shrien Dewani is a free man.

Eskom is doing their best to hide problems and shortcomings but when blackouts hit the country there should be no doubt.