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Music icon Elton John has put a variety of personal items up for auction at Christie's in New York, including monogrammed silver leather platform boots, a grand piano and a triptych by street artist Banksy.

A missing four-year-old girl from the small town of Dewetsdorp in the Free State has been found dead. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thabo Covane says police had been searching for Reitumetse Madibeng for almost a week and eventually discovered her lifeless body in a veld.

Three children have died after they suffocated to death inside a parked vehicle. The tragedy happened in a village in Bolobedu outside Tzaneen in the Limpopo province on Wednesday.

So far, only a handful of Mexico's 32 states have banned the practice, which in 2018 generated an estimated $343 million in revenue and employed around 80,000 people.

A 25-year-old man from the Western Cape who allegedly staged his kidnapping will appear in court on Friday. Spokesperson Captain Frederick van Wyk says it is alleged that the foreign national used his rent money for gambling and decided to stage his kidnapping and extort money from his family.

South Africa Thursday accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, saying that even the deadly October 7 Hamas attack could not justify such alleged actions, as it opened a case at the top UN court.

The Grammy award-winning DJ Black Coffee is said to be receiving medical treatment after he was involved in a severe flight accident on Wednesday.

Every day in South Africa, criminal elements strip copper from wherever they can find it, including roads, homes, construction sites and mines. The theft of copper from already ailing infrastructure severely affects the capacity and operations of state-owned entities and municipalities.

The Department of Agriculture says the ban on the export of Hass avocados from South Africa to Japan has been lifted. Both countries approved a work plan when the ban was lifted at the end of November last year, which aims at ensuring the proper implementation of the export protocols.