Australians joined in Mandela Day through the launch of Mandela’s Day Kitchen, a massive cook-up by 67 Australians and South Africans.
More than 900 students at 10 schools in Limpopo and the North West Province will have scientific calculators by the end of the year.
Britain might be under a blanket of cold rain and wind but people still managed to throw their hearts and souls into the Mandela Day philosophy.
South Africa’s leading batsmen have climbed the latest International Cricket Council rankings, with four of the top six coming from the Proteas.
Despite claims to the contrary, the ghost of former prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd lives on in South African society, says Nickolaus Bauer.
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says the country’s long-time ruler Robert Mugabe is ready to give up power if he loses the next election.
Former police chief Jackie Selebi has apparently been receiving state dialysis at a public hospital, while a terminally ill woman was turned away.
The Olympic governing body says it was forced to include a horse rider in the SA contingent, two days after its lone equestrian entry was withdrawn.
Ghana’s John Dramani Mahama has been sworn in as president, after the country’s revered leader John Atta Mills died unexpectedly on Tuesday.
They’ve been told to bring home 12 Olympic medals, but experts and athletes say the intense pressure heaped upon Team SA is unfair, "almost suicidal".