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SA woman arrested in Ethiopia on drug trafficking charges in a joint operation between law enforcement from both countries.

The World Health Organization says at least 20,000 people have been killed in the civil war, but some estimates put the toll much higher at up to 150,000.

Gauteng police said a tavern owner in the Orange Farm area shot and killed seven people on Saturday night, including children, before later turning the gun on himself.

The death toll from last week's alleged food poisoning incident in Gauteng has risen to six. This was after a grade one learner from Karabo Primary School died after spending a week in the ICU.

The MEC for Transport in Kwazulu Natal Siboniso Duma says the driver was arrested on the scene and taken to the Margate Police station where he will be charged with culpable homicide. He says he is in contact with his counterpart in the Eastern Cape MEC Zolile Nqata to keep him abreast of those injured from the Eastern Cape.

Veteran politician Tito Mboweni, a former anti-apartheid activist who won praise for his fiscal prudence and for shaping the country's labour laws, died Saturday aged 65, the government announced.

SARS says taxpayers need to make sure that they verify their tax and ID numbers and check that they do not have any outstanding debt with the taxman.

Harris's campaign drew attention to a recent series of articles in the New York Times that raised concerns about the fact that Trump had failed to disclose basic information about his health.

The National Weather Service issued a record 126 tornado warnings across the state on Wednesday. Search operations were ongoing Friday with 1,600 people brought to safety -- and the Coast Guard reported the spectacular rescue of a boat captain who rode out the storm 48 kilometres from the shore, clinging to a cooler in the Gulf of Mexico.