A man wrestles a woman to the ground along Selby Street in downtown Johannesburg. He picks her up like a screaming baby, carries her behind a pillar and rapes her. On the sixth floor of the Carlton Centre, a team of ”incident analysts” sits before a bank of screens, following the events as they unfold.

Hundreds of breasts were freed from their confines on Thursday, Guinness World Records Day, as local celebrities asked women strip off their bras and donate them to form the longest bra chain in the world. South Africa is trying to break a world record for the longest bra chain to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Meet Rose … this old bird sure does love her toys! Rose will put that thing just about anywhere you ask her to, and she’ll love it. She gets hornier and hornier with age and is at her sexual peak. Two middle managers of the Johannesburg city council have already met Rose on the internet, it was revealed on Monday.

Harold Manciya flies across the dance floor, his arms winding in every direction while his legs remain completely still — dead still. Left disabled after a plough fell on his back when he was a child, Manciya has been a paraplegic for 20 years. At 31, he has participated in wheelchair basketball and long-distance walking by wheelchair, and started his own kwaito band.

South African singer Lebo Mathosa (29) died in an accident east of Johannesburg in the early hours on Monday, her manager, Linzy Cowley, said. Mathosa’s driver apparently lost control of the Toyota Prado in which they were travelling on the N3 highway on the East Rand, and Mathosa died at the scene.

Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance mayor of Cape Town, was accused by the African National Congress and Independent Democrats of doing a lousy job at delivering local services as about 100 politicians and members of the public protested opposite the city’s Manenberg police station on Friday morning.