President Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused striking state workers of abandoning the sick at hospitals and said he expected a deal to be reached soon.
Tiger Woods was unable to build on his first-round lead at The Barclays, slipping back on Friday with a second round that left him four adrift.
Tyson Gay steamed to victory in the 100m at the season’s final Diamond League meet on Friday, but Caster Semenya failed in her bid to win the 800m.
Ajax Cape Town made it a night to remember at the Cape Town Stadium on Friday when they beat Bloemfontein Celtic 2-0.
US drone aircraft have attacked suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, killing five people.
Human rights groups on Friday accused Zimbabwean police of setting fire to an informal settlement in Harare, forcing about 250 people to flee.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
There have been no new wage talks between public-service unions and the government, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Friday.
Rwanda rejected as malicious a leaked draft United Nations report that said its troops may have committed genocide in the DRC in the 1990s.
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Friday it had executed four former military officers convicted of an armed attack on its presidential palace last year.