The Nigeria Union in South Africa says a peace deal has been reached with Kuruman community on the quit notice given to Nigerians to leave the area. The community alleged that Nigerians were responsible for some social vices such as drugs and prostitution and wants them to quit their area.

Forgotten people: On Youth Day, Julius Malema set his sights on a township on the fringes of Gauteng - with a long and present history of mistreatment. Large rocks block the streets of Boipatong, cordoning off the township from the rest of Gauteng.

Nigel Casey's appointment as high commissioner brings him back to a country that must maintain a strong diplomatic relationship with Britain. The day British voters went out to cast their ballots for the second time in a year, their new high commissioner to South Africa spoke isiZulu.

Johannesburg Recent reports that untrained forensic officers have conducted post-mortems unsupervised for the past 10 years are grossly inaccurate, the National Forensic Pathology Service Committee said on Friday. In a lengthy statement, Chairman Professor Gert Saayman said "irresponsible statements" by journalists, union representatives and government officials will undoubtedly discourage other medical professionals from entering the pathological field and demotivate the few existing specialists.

A single mother's complaint to the Gauteng Education Department about discrimination has put Saxonwold Primary School's admissions policy under the microscope. The mom was allegedly asked invasive questions about why she was a single parent and told if she refused to answer, her child would not be admitted.

Police were called to quell tensions at Salvokop near the Pretoria CBD on Friday night after a community meeting called to discuss the circumstances around the assault of two young men by a mob almost degenerated into a fist fight. One of the battered pair, Abester Muzhambi was last seen in the early hours of Wednesday morning when he was being flogged on the streets.

What started off as the precautionary cancellation of exams written by hundreds of nursing students across the country, over leaked papers ended up in fear and anger, with nurses marching in protest to their mother body's headquarters in the city with boxes of matches on Friday. Nurses, under the umbrella of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA on Friday took to Pretoria's streets and marched to the South African Nursing Council, in protest over the cancellation of the exam which had been written last month.

In the light of the damning #GuptaEmails a commission of inquiry into state capture will establish the truth, forcing those implicated to own up, African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe told delegates at the party's Gauteng policy conference in Irene, Pretoria. Delivering his speech in both English and Xhosa, Mantashe said admission of wrongdoing was "a shortcoming" in the ANC, but with four of its top brass implicated in the emails having confirmed their involvement with the family, the ANC was moving in the right direction.