Police in South Africa said today they have discovered four bodies deep in an abandoned mine, after a Johannesburg newspaper reported that guards at the mine owned by relatives of Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma shot and killed illegal miners.

An embattled Robert Mugabe today began a propaganda campaign seemingly designed to back him in a new ballot for Zimbabwe’s presidency.

THERE were matches aplenty to savour at Belfield yesterday afternoon as the third day of the five-a-side competition drew to a conclusion on the 25 sun-parched pitches at UCD.