Mpumalanga police arrested 21 people for public violence after shops were looted and roads were barricaded in Balfour.>>>

The Green Scorpions have arrested a Free State man believed to be involved in the illegal dumping of medical waste in the Welkom area.>>>

An off-duty police officer has been shot through the ear during a hijacking in Mpumalanga, according to his colleagues.>>>

Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.>>>

A body has been found inside the wheel-well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities are trying to identify the man.>>>

A bus has collided with a sports utility vehicle and plunged down a mountain ravine in southern China, killing seven people and injuring 50.>>>

Retirement fund administrator Alexander Forbes has made a "substantial" offer to resolve a R950-million claim against it for its role in the allegedly fraudulent stripping of surpluses of retirement funds in the 1990s, reducing the retirement benefits of thousands of members and pensioners.>>>

Finally Alexander Forbes has come to its senses and, for the first time, has genuinely attempted to put its sordid past behind it. It is a puzzle why it has taken it so long to do what Edward Kieswetter, its new chief executive, says is "the right thing to do" .>>>

The Financial Services Board (FSB) came down hard on Orange Insurance this week, suspending the company's financial services provider (FSP) licence with immediate effect until its management can quantify the company's liabilities and settle all the outstanding claims against it.>>>