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Gauteng faces a crisis of overcrowding in schools. The average pupil-teacher ratio sits at 70 to 1.

The inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist and human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge is resuming.

Rescuers were racing to reach survivors outside Indonesia's capital Jakarta after two trains collided overnight, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.

An American woman who has accused Mohamed Al-Fayed of sexual assault after being recruited in Paris has spoken of the "pain" of the late Egyptian-born businessman never being held to account.

A fragile calm prevailed on Monday in the Malian capital, Bamako, and the ruling junta's stronghold of Kati, after two days of fierce fighting between the army and jihadists allied with Tuareg separatists, which have plunged the country into uncertainty over the military government's future.