Malema visited Aurora mine on Thursday to lambaste Zuma and Ramaphosa, and encourage miners not to go to work on Monday.
ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga has denied that the ANC in the NCOP endorsed a call on the government to hold back on a loan to Swaziland.
Activists and academics say the Marikana shootings are part of a sustained pattern of intimidation and violence against the workers.
The Democratic Alliance has laid criminal charges against those responsible for preventing 16 000 pupils from attending school for three months.
Personnel records of members of Nigeria’s top spy agency – including home addresses and names of family members – have been leaked onto the internet.
There is a disjuncture between what platinum mine Lonmin says it is doing in communities and what is experienced by people in Marikana, experts say.
Goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs has been recalled to the Bafana Bafana squad, withdrawing his retirement from international soccer.
Industrial action at Wits University looks set to become protracted after negotiations stalled and unions accused management of acting in bad faith.
Once the stronghold of the feared Unita rebels, Angola’s second city Huambo has emerged as a key battlefield in Friday’s general elections.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to tackle deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Syria.