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Humble South African Golfer Comes Out of Nowhere to Win British Open on Mandela’s Bday
South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who had missed the cut in all his three previous Opens and was a 250-1 outsider before the tournament started,...
Solar Powered Traffic Lights Move Cars in South Africa
Solar powered traffic lights are set to become an increasingly common phenomenon in South Africa as the National Energy Efficiency Agency (NEEA)...
South African Prisoners Embrace Yoga
A new program of yoga lessons is helping prisoners at Gruoenpunt Maximum Security prison in South Africa to discover ways to stay calm...
South Africans Unite for Immigrants Suffering Violence
Waves of xenophobic violence against immigrants this week has led to an overwhelming positive response by the South African public, through an outpouring of...
‘Black Billy Elliot’ Pirouettes Past South African Prejudices
His chosen vocation ridiculed by peers and elders alike, a South African teenager remains unwavering in his ambition to become a world-class ballet dancer....
South African Corporations Thinking Green
South African banking giant ABN AMRO says climate change is a big factor in choosing who to do business with in the future. "If...
Poem From South Africa: Time Turns
Editor's Note- Today seems like a perfect day for publishing poems, so we're choosing this day in April to celebrate "Poetry Month" in America....
Good News in History, May 2
60 years ago today, Shishapangma was summited for the first time as the last of Mother Earth's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters to be...
Good News in History, April 27
6 years ago today, the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un, declaring the intention to end the Korean...
Pyrite May Be Known as Fool’s Gold, but It Actually Contains a Kind of Green Gold: Lithium
Appalachian mining country seems an unlikely place to find a potential breakthrough in renewable energy, but samples of mine tailings in West Virginia have...
French Woman Smashes Previous World Rope Climbing Record by Reaching Eiffel Tower’s 2nd Floor–(WATCH)
Remember the free hanging rope climb exercise in PE class, remember how difficult that was? Well, evidently there are some people who...
Good News in History, April 10
99 years ago today, one of the great American novels, The Great Gatsby was published. F. Scott Fitzgerald's work was a commercial disappointment and strangely,...
British Man Finishes His Run Across Africa: 385 Marathons in 352 days
A red-headed Brit named Russ Cook claims he's become the first person ever to run across the entire length of Africa after crossing a...
Good News in History, March 21
180 years ago today, the Bab began teaching the Baháʼí faith, marking forever both the Holy Day and Day 1, or New Year's Day...
Good News in History, March 18
100 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from...
Good News in History, March 17
124 years ago today, Isadora Duncan, the first modern dancer, made her debut as a solo interpretive dancer in London to crowds who marveled...
Good News in History, March 13
On this day last year, worldwide unit sales of vinyl records climbed above CDs for the first time since 1987, completing the only low-tech...
21 Black Rhinos Successfully Moved to New Kenya Home With Space to Breed–Hailing Return of Species After 50 yrs
The Kenya Wildlife Service celebrated the successful transfer of 21 eastern black rhinos to establish a new viable breeding population for the species that...
Good News in History, February 11
2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...
Good News in History, February 2
53 years ago today, The Ramsar Convention on the Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Iran. When stopping to think about it,...