Events this week suggested that the field of potential challengers to the African National Congress had narrowed, burdened by a political calculus based on race.    

At least two Egyptians who came home from fighting in Syria have already killed themselves as suicide bombers in a recent terror campaign.    

South African emergency workers rescued eight miners trapped in Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine but a search went on for nine others still unaccounted for more than a day later.