Blackburn striker Benni McCarthy has agreed to play for South Africa in a friendly against Cameroon on Wednesday.

Fires that have swept through parts of South Africa in recent days have killed at least 18 people and damaged power lines, crops, forests and grazing areas.

At least 14 people, nine of them schoolchildren, were killed in a six-vehicle accident on a major road in South Africa, the South African Press Association reported.

South African president Thabo Mbeki was regularly informed of the progress of an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea which was also sanctioned by the United States, Britain and Spain, a state witness testified today.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela joined the nation today in mourning his long-time friend and fellow veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, Adelaide Tambo.

A senior policeman went on the rampage in South Africa, killing four colleagues, three women and a baby before being shot dead himself.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s eldest son is in critical condition at a Johannesburg hospital, his foundation said today.

Hundreds of protestors congregated outside a South African court today, demanding death sentences for six men charged with raping a nine-month-old baby, according to police.

At least 47 people have been killed in a stampede at a football match in South Africa, according to reports.