ORANIA, is a small, time-warp village in South Africa’s Northern Cape province; a small speck on the map in the scrubland edging the Karoo.

Four African white-backed vultures have been fitted with GPS transmitters in a bid to discover more about the birds and the threats they face, conservationists said today.

Twelve South African patients were killed when the bus they were being transported in was involved in an accident, police said today.

AT least 65 people were killed when a bus plunged into a reservoir in South Africa’s central Free State province yesterday morning, the transport ministry confirmed.

LEANING over for a closer look, Lucas Nsukazi frowned at a black pot in a plastic bag sitting in a reflector made of cardboard and aluminum foil. “Does it really work?” he asked.