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A small Florida key known as "Beer Can Island" due to the results of parties thrown in the sand is for sale -- and one prospective buyer is looking for partners to go in at $1,000 apiece.

Parliament is considering the election of a new speaker to fill the vacancy left by corruption-charged Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula who resigned last week.

The DA says it is considering its options after the ANC blocked moves to investigate the irregular hiking of secretary to parliament Xolile George's salary by 70% shortly after he was appointed.

Amendments to immigration regulations are important to make it easier for foreigners to get visas for tourism, business and work, and this will in turn promote investment in South Africa, said home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Tuesday

Outgoing ANC MP Boy Mamabolo says he is not discouraged after losing the first stage of his legal challenge against the governing party, accusing it of illegally removing his name from its parliament list.

It took nearly 24 hours for a rescue team to retrieve the body of a 22-year-old woman who had fallen in the Wemmershoek mountains in the Western Cape on Sunday evening.

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says his department does not have backlogs on applications for work permits and visas, but the backlog was on dependency visas which were growing in “leaps and bounds”.

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The anti-corruption path Ramaphosa took remains one of the high-stakes and rivalrous decisions he has taken

The US must boost commercial ties with African countries to curb reliance on China for supplies of critical minerals, a Washington-based think-tank said on Tuesday.