The withdrawal from the 'national dialogue' by the Democratic Alliance (DA) is the latest instability to rock South Africa's unity government which has just marked its first anniversary

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was due to arrive to arrive in the US on Monday morning for a working visit that will culminate in a meeting with his counterpart Donald Trump on Wednesday

A judge has approved the trial of two apartheid-era police officers for their involvement in the 1982 assassination of three student activists