Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela who has been hospitalized for more than a week, "continues to get better", South African President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.

Mandla Mandela, Nelson Mandela's grandson, on Saturday said the condition of the former president of South Africa is improving very well.

Ninety-three South African soldiers have been disciplined for offenses committed while deployed in a United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sudanese Petroleum Ministry has notified oil companies to stop exporting South Sudan's oil through the Sudanese territories, Khartoum's Alyaoum Altali daily reported.

A heavy-duty machinery manufacturer in north China's Shanxi Province has exported its heavy-duty excavators to South Africa, according to the company.

South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was getting the best medical care although his condition showed no improvement.

South Africa will use its membership to the BRICS to further strengthen trade and investment, and integrate Africa with the world's fastest growing and most dynamic economies, a government official said on Sunday.

Two South African companies have been blacklisted by the United States for allegedly involving in billions of dollars of operations on behalf of the leadership of Iran, a newspaper report said on Sunday.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday voiced concern over recent attacks on foreigners in South Africa.

South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday called for a swift legal action as the initiation death toll in Mpumalanga Province reached 27.

In a further move in developing clean energy, South Africa will build a wind farm which will generate up to 100 MW of power, it was announced on Monday.

South African President Jacob Zuma was not involved in a wedding scandal in which a private plane of the affluent and well-connected Indian Gupta family landed at a sensitive military airbase, an investigation revealed on Sunday.

The South African police on Sunday announced it seized more than 15 kg of cocaine in a routine border check.

South African officials say Laurie Kay, an aviator best known for flying a Boeing 747 passenger jet low over a Johannesburg stadium before the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, has died.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has called for peace and normal ties with South Sudan as the neighbors move to reestablish relations.

South Africa says it has withdrawn its forces from the Central African Republic (CAR), where the government was overthrown by a coup in March.

The South African government is scheduled to dispatch troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of UN Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO).

The South African government confirmed on Sunday that its armed forces will dispatch troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of a UN intervention force.

All South African troops have returned home from the Central African Republic (CAR), the South African National Defense Union (SANDU) said on Friday.

Nelson Mandela is making "steady progress" while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said.