The bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170. Here are the stories of those killed and some of the injured.
Telkom has settled with the Competition Commission and will pay an administrative penalty of R449-million handed down by the Competition Tribunal.
Zimbabwe has withdrawn its appeal for UN funds to help hold key elections this year, after the world body demanded to meet civic groups.
A campaign to stamp out the spreading of rumours in Bayelsa, the home state of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, is now underway.
The South African National Roads Agency Limited says the planned toll roads in the Western Cape will create about 5 000 jobs, says a newspaper report.
South Africa has ranked its maths and science education has second last in the world, ahead of Yemen, according to a World Economic Forum report.
Pakistani troops have scrambled to aid the remote victims of an earthquake centred in nearby Iran, as a strong aftershock has jolted the region.
The explosives detonated at the Boston Marathon were homemade devices full of nails, possibly packed into kitchen pressure cookers, say US officials.
South Africans injured in Boston bombings were spectators, not runners, says Dirco, as Barack Obama admits attack was an ‘act of terror’.
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