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SA People is part of the Blue Sky Publications group, publishers of The South African, one of South Africa’s largest and fastest-growing news publications.
It is a news website with a sense of community that connects and celebrates South Africans worldwide. The site publishes mostly positive content, aimed primarily at the expat market, but enjoyed equally by those back home.
SA People was founded in 2009 by two expats behind SA’s largest reuniting website, SAReunited. Since then, SA People has become the go-to site for South Africans abroad, whether for news, tips on navigating their new lives abroad, or to connect with their roots. SA People offers the SA diaspora a place to enjoy familiar humour, stories and breathtaking photos of the land, they still call home. Source
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Search ArticlesHere are the Daily Lotto results for Wednesday, 9 September 2026
If you’re a South African student weighing up the UK’s steep new financial threshold from wherever you’ve landed, the headlines back home aren’t making the maths any gentler this week. An R500,000 Daily Lotto win wouldn’t clear every hurdle, but it’d take the sting out of a visa application, or fund a proper trip back to Mzansi to see the family you’ve been video-calling for far too long. Daily Lotto Estimated Jackpot: R 500 000 Draw date: 9 September 2026 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
Here are the Lotto results for Wednesday, 9 September 2026
If you’re reading this from a quiet flat overseas, you might have caught wind of the strange hum keeping Cape Town’s northern suburbs awake at night. There’s something oddly comforting about missing even the weird stuff back home, the low-level mysteries that make Mzansi Mzansi. An R5.5 million Lotto windfall wouldn’t solve the riddle, but it would certainly fund a flight back to hear that hum for yourself and catch up with the family you’ve been putting off visiting.
WEATHER: Light rain and fog patches expected this Thursday
Get daily updates on temperatures, winds and UVB levels, and see what the SA Weather Service predicts for the country. Here’s the weather outlook for South Africa’s nine provinces. The South African Weather Service has issued weather updates stating that fine, cool conditions expected in some provinces this week. IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS NIL FIRE DANGER WARNINGS NIL ADVISORIES NIL Gauteng can expect fine and cool, but warm in the extreme north.
Requests to donate blood: Should you share your precious supply?
Would you donate blood if your contribution could help up to three people? For an eligible donor, the answer could help someone facing surgery, trauma or serious illness. The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) says one donation can save up to three lives. Blood remains essential because hospitals cannot manufacture it. SANBS collects, tests and distributes donated blood to patients who need transfusions because of trauma, surgery or illness.
Pet owners in Cape Town: Do they really have reason to be angry?
Pet owners in Cape Town have made social media explode over the city’s proposed Animal Keeping By-law, 2026. Claims range from new pet limits to sweeping municipal control over household animals. Some concerns have substance and others confuse existing rules with proposed changes. The city opened the draft for public comment on 28 August 2026 and comments close on 29 September 2026. First, the city is not introducing pet-number limits. The 2021 by-law already limits dogs by property type.
UK visas: South African students face steep, new financial threshold
South African and other countries’ students planning to study in the United Kingdom face increased financial requirements following legislative amendments to British immigration rules taking effect on 30 November 2026. According to the official Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules laid before Parliament on 3 September 2026 by the Home Secretary, international applicants must demonstrate higher monthly living allowances before securing a student visa.
The mysterious hum keeping Cape Town and Northern Suburbs awake
There is a sound moving through Cape Town’s northern suburbs that nobody can quite pin down. Residents in Table View, Parklands and Blouberg have spent weeks describing a low, mechanical hum that arrives after dark and vanishes just as quietly. I have lived somewhere loud enough that background drones barely register, so hearing how rattled people are here tells me this is no ordinary noise complaint.
Here are the Daily Lotto results for Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Back home the economy just took an unexpected contraction, the kind of headline that makes you glad your rands are earning in another currency while still worrying about family who feel the pinch. That’s the strange split of living abroad: rooting for Mzansi from a distance, refreshing the news between shifts. An R450,000 Daily Lotto win wouldn’t fix a national slowdown, but it could cover flights home and a proper visit to the people you miss most.
Here are the PowerBall results for Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Six South Africans are still missing after the Nepal floods, a reminder that no matter how far our people scatter across the globe, home holds its breath for every one of them. When you’re living abroad yourself, news like this hits differently: you know that pull to be somewhere else, chasing something, staying connected to the ones who worry. An R31 million PowerBall win couldn’t ease that ache, but it could buy the freedom to be present when family needs you most.
WEATHER: Morning fog patches expected in parts of SA
Get daily updates on temperatures, winds and UVB levels, and see what the SA Weather Service predicts for the country. Here’s the weather outlook for South Africa’s nine provinces. The South African Weather Service has issued weather updates stating that fine, cool conditions expected in some provinces this week. IMPACT-BASED WARNINGS NIL FIRE DANGER WARNINGS Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over the Laingsburg Local Municipality in the Western Cape.