Two alleged gunmen were shot dead and a third was seriously wounded during a foiled robbery at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg shortly after the Lions-Western Province Currie Cup match on Saturday.

Seven men were sentenced in the Circuit High Court in Heidelburg on Friday to a total of 1 503 years’ imprisonment for various crimes, Vaal Rand police said.

The African National Congress (ANC) Woman’s League and Congress of South African Students (Cosas) on Friday called on King Mwatsi III to return the three girls allegedly abducted by the king to the care of their parents immediately.

Crucial talks to find an interim power-sharing deal between warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) got underway in Pretoria on Saturday, officials said.

Four people were killed and several others injured when a vehicle ran them down before its driver was also beaten to death allegedly by an angry mob in Klipgat, outside Mabopane township in the North West on Sunday.

Zulu painter Ernest Mancoba, exiled in France since 1938, has died in hospital at Clamart near Paris aged 98, his family said on Sunday.

Deputy President Jacob Zuma will fly out of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he is presiding over Burundi’s peace talks, to South Africa on Tuesday to attend to his parliamentary and state obligations.

President Thabo Mbeki has confirmed that Nepad’s African Review Mechanism will not review the political governance of African countries, as this was the task of African Union (AU) watchdog institutions such as the Commission for People’s and Human Rights.

A 51-year-old man injured in one of the nine bomb blasts in Soweto underwent an emergency operation at the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

South Africans should not allow a tiny minority of fanatics to interfere with the promotion of reconciliation and a strong, united and peaceful South Africa, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday.