The Turkish legal system is becoming a hazardous battleground for the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party and its secular opponents.
Police and National Intelligence Agency leaders appear to be waging a war of attrition against the National Prosecuting Authority and the Scorpions.
Pikoli could suffer the same fate as former defence force boss Georg Meiring, according to National Intelligence Agency boss Manala Manzini.
Ekurhuleni mayor Duma Nkosi has resigned. The African National Congress in Gauteng said it had accepted Nkosi’s resignation on Friday.
Audio recordings taken of Judge Nkola Motata’s rantings, allegedly while drunk, are accurate, a witness told the Johannesburg High Court on Friday.
A male leopard was captured in Makoko near Nelspruit on Friday, the Mpumalanga tourism and parks agency said.
Rival troops from north and south Sudan are withdrawing from the contested trouble spot of Abyei but traded barbs on Friday.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has denied a media report that suspended news head Snuki Zikalala might be reinstated on Friday.
Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa, rumours of whose death left media with egg on their face on Thursday, was to undergo further tests on Friday.
Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba made his first appearance on Friday before the International Criminal Court.