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The popular American political thriller television series Homeland is moving its production to Cape Town in South Africa. Filming of the 4th season of Homeland will begin in June and continue into November.

Can flavoured condoms be the answer to South Africa's HIV/Aids problem?The South African government seems to think it is. South African health minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced his department will distribute coloured and flavoured condoms among students to end "condom fatigue", as he termed student's reluctance to use condoms after a...

A South African expat aged 43 has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead at a house in south-west London.The BBC reports officers were called to a property on Thetford Road, New Malden, at about 21:30 BST on Tuesday where the bodies of the children...

South Africans bashing their own country overseas is a huge problem, says Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane.Chabane recently travelled to Australia with representatives of Brand South Africa to convince expats of the gains their motherland had made and the challenges it continues to face. Brand SA's job is to...

The time is right for New Zealand and Australia to exclude South Africa and form their own Southern Hemisphere rugby competition.Former All Black and Crusaders flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens, writing a column on the Stuff.co.nz website says the difference in time zones between the southern Pacific nations and SA is thet...

There are alarming reports that the five-decade-old 128-metre-high Kariba Dam wall on the Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia could collapse. In such an event hundreds of thousands of lives will be in danger as millions of megatons of water would move with 'tremendous speed' and reach an area about...

How can it ever be justified to spend R3million of tax payers' money in order to bring a murder suspect to South Africa. Why rent a chartered private Gulfstream jet to fly Shrien Dewani to South Africa and treat him like a celeb if a passenger flight would have been...

While Oscar Pistorius was tearfully playing the sympathy card in court, another person who will be blaming blacks for the murder of his loving partner was being escorted to Heathrow to face justice in South Africa.After a lengthy extradition battle, honeymoon murder-accused Shrien Dewani arrived in Cape Town this morning...

More than two thirds of young South Africans feels President Jacob Zuma should step down over the Nkandla scandal.The survey was conducted one week after the release of the Public Protector's report on Nkandla by consumer insights company Pondering Panda with 2,114 youngsters between the ages of 18 and 34...

How much will the International Rugby Board (IRB) pay for referees' personal protection while in South Africa? This is something they will seriously need to consider after the IRB decided to allow controversial French referee, Romain Poite, to take charge of a Springbok Test later this year.

President Jacob Zuma's controversial compound at Nkandla in Kwazulu-Natal will be turned into a Zulu Theme Park open to the paying public.Government officials confirmed the new Nkandla Zulu World will be turned into a reconstruction of a nineteenth-century Zulu kraal while also being combined with modern thrill-seeking adventures such as...

The claim that 98% of property owners in Cape Town are 'white and Jewish' is not new. It was made last year by the leader of the African National Congress in South Africa's Western Cape Province, Marius Fransman. Africa Check, the website that distinguishes between wild claims and facts, investigated...

A case of unfair labour practice has been referred to the Equality Court after an acting senior magistrate had not been promoted because of the colour of his skin.Solidarity's Centre for Fair Labour Practices acted on behalf of a magistrate whose career spans over 18 years. Martin Kroukamp was nominated...

At last somebody is going to actually do something tangible about the Zumster. EFF leader Julius Malema says he will give the Prez 20 days to resign or march to the Union Buildings with his supporters... and not leave until Zuma has left the building – and his presidency. In...

Yusuf Abramjee is a LeadSA activist and head of Crime Line SA. He recently addressed expatriates in London as part of the Homecoming Revolution's initiative to convine expats to pack their containers, go home to their mother/father land and help rebuild South Africa.After his return to SA he wrote this...

In the run-up to South Africa's May 7 election, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is making some extra-ordinary claims about their performance. Website AfricaCheck has been doing some research to verify these claims. This report by researcher Kate Wilkinson and edited by Julian Rademeyer:

While South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was dragging its feet in how to ensure South Africans abroad can vote in this year’s general election, it managed to spend R1million on pot plant holders, R900,000 on furniture for the IEC chairlady’s office and almost R500,000 on gym equipment.

Promising to be a case that could match the Oscar Pistorius trial in public interest, it has this week become clear that the UK's honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani will after all be extradited to South Africa within days. Dawani will face charges that he paid men to murder Anni...

DA will push for Zuma's impeachment The Nkandla report released today is the culmination of a long struggle by the DA in parliament to get to the truth of the Nkandla scandal. It was initiated by Lindiwe Mazibuko, Parliamentary Leader of the Democratic Alliance in September 2012 when she wrote...

Boeing and Comair Limited announced an order for eight 737 MAX 8s, valued at $830 million at list prices. It is the first 737 MAX order announcement for an African operator. The order was booked in December 2013 and was previously unidentified on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website. "We're...

Rhino Gold is a documentary on Rhino poaching in South Africa and aims to expose the poaching crisisfrom a grass roots level. At the same time the documentary also focuses on the community of a town called Hoedspruit.

1st African Tourism tradefair in Germany "Soul and Spirit of Africa " with focused on AFRICA ONLY! This tradefair is initiated and organized by AfrikAktiv org. in cooperation with chamber of commerce and Industry , International African Festival Tübingen and supported by African Ambassadors in Germany, Lord major and city...

Every second idiot in South Africa can now be a top policeman. The minimum academic requirement for the position of provincial crime intelligence head in the South African Police Service (SAPA) has been reduced to a matric certificate.Questions about reducing the minimum requirement for these top posts have now been...

The low number of South Africans who have submitted VEC10 forms enabling to vote abroad in the SA general election can largely be attributed to the complexity of voting arrangements for expats South Africans.

We could not stress it enough, if you now of someone living on a farm or outside of a town PLEASE ask them to secure their premises at all times and do everything they can to protect them selves and their family.