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The South African National Parks (SANParks) says a missing hiker, who was presumed to be lost on Table Mountain was found deceased on Sunday. SANParks Head of Communications JP Louw says the female hiker, from the United States, left her accommodation at noon.

A 30-year-old drug mule from Namibia is currently under police guard in hospital following her arrest at the OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) on Sunday. National police spokesperson Brigadier Antlenda Mathe says they were following up on intelligence from SAPS that a drug mule would land in Johannesburg on an early morning flight from Sau Paulo.

"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," the dark comedy about a ghoulish spirit summoned when his name is called three times, has landed its third week at the top of the North American box office, industry watchers said Sunday.

Aiden Markram's calm innings helped South Africa avoid suffering a series clean sweep by Afghanistan.

Glenrose Xaba is on track to become the first South African in five years to win the Spar overall Grand Prix series in a fortnight.

The former VWSA fleet administrator, who was sentenced to direct imprisonment for defrauding the company of R12 million, has died.

Shipping containers, food and medicine continue to wash up along beaches in Algoa Country from East London down the coast to the Garden Route.

A blast caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said Sunday, in one of the country's deadliest work accidents in years. The number of dead workers increased to 51 in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported, revising an earlier death toll of 30.

Police in Gqeberha are searching for the gunmen who shot and killed four men in a car in Zwide on Friday night.