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Johannesburg  - South Africa's ruling African National Congress was holding a last mass campaign rally in a Johannesburg stadium on Sunday ahead of general elections next week that the party is expected easily to win, albeit with a reduced majority.

A little over 23 million South Africans are registered to vote in the country's fourth democratic national and provincial elections on Wednesday.

Johannesburg - A visiting Indian cricket team was full of praise for South Africa on Saturday after a big stash of cash the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) team left behind in a room was returned untouched.

A cellphone company boss stumbled across 450,000 rand (50,000 dollars) in the safe of a hotel room in the southern city of Port Elizabeth earlier this week.

Kolkata, Apr. 17 :IPL merchandise sale is seeing a slump in Kolkata markets. With the premier league matches being played away from home in far away South Africa, the shopkeepers who had invested hugely in IPL Tee Shirts of all teams are ruing the loss of customers.

Johannesburg  - South African opposition leader Helen Zille warned voters Thursday night not to be so "stupid" as to give the ruling African National Congress (ANC) another two-thirds majority in next week's vote, saying to do so would endanger the constitution.

The ANC won 69.7 per cent of the vote in the last elections in 2004.

Durban, Apr. 17: An Indian-origin store manager, Krish Pillay, was killed in Durban while heroically saving his staff and customers from gunmen, who had stormed into the Shoprite supermarket.

The drama began when five armed robbers burst into the store and held staff and customers at gunpoint while they demanded money from the cash tills.

The store, on the corner of Kenyon and Howden Roads, soon became a battleground when police snipers and hostage negotiators entered the store.