A miner was found dead underground at AngloGold Ashanti’s Moab Khotsong mine, near Orkney, at 2am on Sunday morning. The body of a second miner had been located underground at 9am and rescue workers were in the process of recovering it, said AngloGold Ashanti spokesperson Steve Lenahan.
More than 100 people have died in floods and landslides in China where dykes protecting a swollen river in the east, which has already prompted tens of thousands to flee their homes, are in danger of being breached. Severe flooding has hit about half of China since the start of the summer, killing hundreds in what has become the deadliest rainy season in years.
When an elder was kidnapped in a clan dispute in conservative southern Egypt, the Al-Arab family’s worst fears were soon realised — they received a package containing his moustache. The man himself was returned uninjured, but the use of the new shaving tactic sent shockwaves through the town of Mahrusa.
Former African National Congress chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe could face jail for failing to appear in court for a maintenance hearing, media reports said on Sunday. Justice Ministry spokesperson Lazarus Mothupi said neither Goniwe nor his lawyer had informed the court of his absence. A warrant of arrest was issued.
It was bad-tempered and it was close, but the Blue Bulls held off Western Province to win 26-17 in a Absa Currie Cup rugby match at Newlands on Saturday. A dubious decision by the television official allowing a Derick Kuün try when it appeared as if he had lost the ball forward.
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, a former televangelist who helped lead a huge television ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died, her website reported on Saturday. Messner died on Friday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer.
James Anderson took a Test-best five for 42 on his return to the side to give England the advantage over India in their series opener at Lord’s on Saturday. England were 77 for two in their second innings — a lead of 174 — at stumps on the third day after India had collapsed to 201 all out.
India’s first female President, Pratibha Patil, savoured her election win on Sunday as supporters hailed the victory as a step forward for women. The 72-year-old lawyer defeated Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat by a landslide on Saturday.
Former president FW De Klerk ”knew nothing” about the attempt on Frank Chikane’s life, according to one of the accused in the case, General Johann van der Merwe. Media reports said that former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok and Van der Merwe were angry at having to bear the blame for crimes committed in the apartheid era
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, secured a landslide election triumph on Sunday night, winning a second five-year term with nearly half of the national vote after being forced by veiled threats of a military overthrow to call an early ballot.