Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... A selection of recent images from our planet.

Organised crime-accused Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala has, on day three of his testimony, claimed that the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) was pursuing an agenda to weaken KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi by targeting senior officers aligned with him and dismantling his support base within the SAPS.

South Africa has counted its votes. Parties are counting their seats. Coalition negotiators are counting their options. But who is accounting for the millions missing from the ballot box?

Traversing the Bloukrans Bridge on 600 monkey bars is just the latest physical challenge that South African obstacle course racing star Thomas van Tonder has taken on. He says he does all these physical challenges to prove to his three children that nothing is impossible.

There is a political consequence of South Africa’s Government of National Unity that deserves closer attention: when former opponents agree to govern together, they do not necessarily bring their supporters with them.

The media’s fixation on humanising apartheid-era perpetrators such as Eugene de Kock risks displacing the experiences of victims and survivors whose lives were forever changed by the actions of these assassins.

As City Power’s grid buckles and coalition talks heat up, Johannesburg’s voters deserve more than another deal for political survival. What would a people-first coalition look like?

Five giant baobabs — thirsty, shrunken, but still alive after three months out of the soil — are heading back homeward from the port of Durban after conservationists mounted an urgent and costly rescue operation to shift them to a new sanctuary in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, which straddles the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces.

As the clock ticks for parties to form coalitions in Gauteng’s three metros, where the DA received the most votes, the ANC’s top decision-making body will meet on Thursday. At the same time, the DA and ActionSA will meet. The three parties will decide the fate of Joburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... A selection of recent images from our planet.

Former Defence Minister Mapisa-Nqakula faces 12 counts of corruption and one of money laundering.

The violence comes despite negotiations between warring parties and the authorities.

Residents say they have been forgotten for more than two decades as their housing conditions worsen.

Case against two employees of NW businessman, Suliman Carrim, postponed to November 23rd.

The affected area will be closely monitored to ensure that the fire does not reignite.

Attempted murder accused Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala has been testifying before the Madlanga Commission.

Maburna faces 21 charges after 11 new counts were to the nine he was initially charged with.

Cassandra Labuschagne entered into a plea and sentence agreement with the Cape Town Regional Court.

Matlala says the money was paid in two instalments of R200 000 and R300 000

Minister Solly Malatsi says the SABC will remain on air despite a power outage in Auckland Park.