South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warned on Wednesday that rising global debt poses a risk to financial stability.

South Africa’s township businesses, predominately owned by the Black majority in a nation with one of the world’s widest levels of income inequality, are struggling to survive.

Forty-two Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals have died after a bus taking them home overturned on a South African road, authorities have said. The crash happened on Sunday night as the bus was moving through "a mountainous section" of the N1 highway in South Africa's Limpopo province, local transport officials said.

A long-distance bus taking workers home from South Africa to Zimbabwe and Malawi crashed in a mountainous region north of Pretoria, killing at least 42 people.

South Africa’s agriculture minister signed a trade protocol with China to export five types of stone fruit to the Asian country for the first time.

The South African rand was steady in early trade on Thursday as safe havens like gold - which renewed a record high - became appealing amid trade frictions between Beijing and Washington.

Authorities say a bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in northern South Africa, killing at least 42 people and injuring another 49.

All of the remains had been unethically exhumed between 1868 and 1924 and left to Glasgow - as items to study - by university alumni and other donors.

A record-breaking surge in online gambling is sparking urgent warnings over addiction, youth exposure, and the lack of regulation.