At least 49 people are confirmed dead after flooding hit South Africa, including children whose school bus was swept away during the extreme weather, officials said.

(Reuters) -South African state ports and freight rail company Transnet said on Thursday that it had reached a wage agreement with its recognised labour unions. The deal is for a 18% salary increase over three years and averts the risk of a strike,

South Africa's players have the "belief" they can pull off a sensational victory in the World Test Championship final, according to batter David Bedingham.

David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ‘happened’ and yet all was contained.”

The South African rand slipped on Thursday, after the release of weaker-than-expected local mining output figures. At 1544 GMT the rand traded at 17.7850 against the dollar, down about 0.2% on Wednesday's close.

South Africa, struggling to reset relations with the US, is willing to give way on so-called phytosanitary requirements for poultry-meat imports, but fears an impasse with its second-biggest trading partner over pork shipments.

In the 33 years since readmission to global cricket, South Africa have generally been among the three best teams in the world. And yet, for all the great players that the country has produced – Allan Donald,

South African state logistics group Transnet said on Thursday that it had reached a wage agreement with its recognised labour unions.