Happy Sunday everyone, hope you’ve got your coffee on and nowhere urgent to be today.
Sunday, 24 May 2026
Orlando Pirates are your league champions
The Buccaneers did it, and coach Ouaddou wasn’t shy about how much it meant, talking about what this title represents for the Orlando community and the fans. Pirates winning the league is always a big deal in this country, half the nation is Pirates mad, and from what I’ve seen it sounds like they genuinely earned it this season. Well done to them, even if you’re a Chiefs or Sundowns supporter reading this through gritted teeth.
Now there’s a mafia targeting the funeral industry
South Africa’s funeral industry is worth an estimated R10 billion a year, and apparently that’s too much money for organised crime to ignore. What makes this particularly grim is that this industry deals with people at their absolute most vulnerable, grieving families who just want to bury their loved ones with dignity. The fact that criminals are muscling into this space tells you just how far and wide the problem has spread in this country.
The Garden Route is officially the best road trip on the planet
Come on, we already knew this. The drive from Mossel Bay all the way down to Storms River Mouth has been named the top road trip in the world, and honestly, if you’ve done it even once, you know exactly why. The passes, the coastline, the little towns, the food stops, it’s the kind of experience that reminds you what a genuinely special country we live in despite everything.
People are abandoning cars at our airports and just walking away
This one is strange and says quite a bit about where we are. Airports Company South Africa confirmed there are around 30 abandoned vehicles sitting at Cape Town International Airport alone, a mix of criminals dumping stolen cars and people who emigrated and couldn’t be bothered sorting out their vehicles before they left. I don’t know whether to laugh or feel sad about that last one.
For this Sunday’s chat, tell me, have you driven the Garden Route, and if so, what’s the one stop most people don’t know about that you’d tell a first-timer to make? Drop it below, let’s build a proper list.
Lekker Sunday to everyone, enjoy the rest of the day.
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