South Africa Odd News

So you're lounging around in a freshly-built web one day--just chillin', hangin' out, all bein' a spider and shit--when you feel the telltale struggles of a delicious little victim. As you prepare to pump your squirming dinner with venom, something...

Extraordinary creatures from David Attenborough's 'Life' - and where to spot them. Mudskipper These remarkable fish have adapted their gills to hold water when out of the sea and have turned their pectoral fins into walking aids in order to...

Over the past two odd decades, there have been many dogs which have been featured in the Guinness book of world records for their extremities. Leading the list of such hounds is Hercules, an English Mastiff, which was inducted in...

Crocodile is a reptile that belongs to Crocodylidae family and Crocodilia order. Found inhabiting the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, it looks like a huge lizard. Probably the most formidable of all reptiles, a crocodile has as...

The South African Air Force (SAAF) has established a Board of Inquiry for an unusual accident last week in which a civilian passenger accidentally ejected from a trainer during tight manoeuvres. Times Online quoted an unnamed SAAF spokesman saying: “Much...

It is generally acknowledged, and far be it for me to argue, that the force of gravity exerted by the moon on the Earth is strong enough to raise the level of the oceans, thereby bringing about the tides. Now,...

The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of Australia and Tasmania. Due to the inaccessibility of its habitat, it is rarely seen by humans. Blobfish are found at depths where the pressure...

A woman in South Africa found herself speaking to the nation’s president when she called up a new anti-corruption hotline. She phoned to complain about the treatment she had received at a magistrate’s court where she had gone to get...