A crash involving a minibus taxi and a truck has killed at least 11 people in South Africa. A local government official and emergency services reported the incident Thursday.

More than 100 deaths have been confirmed across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, with the rains expected to continue through February.

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The South African central bank's chief economist Christopher Loewald, a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member, is taking early retirement effective from March 1 this year, the bank said on Friday.

The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.

A sharp rise in global oil prices has been offset by a rand rally, keeping South African motorists on track for a sizeable cut in petrol and diesel prices next week.

South African state-owned power utility Eskom has raised its salary increase offer to trade unions to 5.5% from the 3.5% it proposed last year, a document seen by Reuters showed, though it remains well below what unions are demanding.

Several current F1 drivers including seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton have called for the sport to return to South Africa.

MAGA podcaster Katie Miller has claimed Melania Trump's eponymous documentary was pulled from appearing in South African theaters due to a bias "against white people," RadarOnline. com can reveal.