Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan is stepping down as the UN-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old Syria conflict at the end of the month.
Disgraced former police commissioner Jackie Selebi is at home again after a brief stint in hospital this week.
As former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema returns from a whirlwind tour to London, questions are being asked about who his backers might be.
Syrian rebels have bombarded an air base used by regime forces to pound Aleppo, while dozens have been reported killed in a raid near Damascus.
South Africa’s rowing team has secured the country’s third gold medal of the Olympic Games, finishing first in the men’s lightweight-four final.
Malusi Gigaba will be our president. Maybe. In politics, nothing is carved in stone, but if he plays his cards right it might be written in the stars.
Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh talks candidly about the immense pressure he felt ahead of his race, and how listening to John Mayer helped.
South Africa has dropped a few ranks in the Olympic medal standings, after other nations stepped up to add gold to their own hauls.
Gold medallist Chad le Clos has withdrawn from the final of the 200m individual medley at the London Olympics, to concentrate on the 100m butterfly.
The skeleton of Australia’s most notorious criminal will finally be returned to his family – 132 years after he was executed.