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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A major fire ripped through South Africa’s Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings in the building that houses the national legislature to collapse. As firefighters struggled to tame the blaze, a dark plume of smoke and flames rose high into the air above the southern city of Cape Town.

South Africa’s High Court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgement showed on Wednesday.

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, his office says.

FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to start his 15-month prison sentence on a charge of contempt of court, after the country’s Constitutional Court said he was guilty of missing a court date in February.

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, appeared on Saturday to have won a reprieve from imminent imprisonment on contempt of court charges after the country’s most senior judges agreed to hear his challenge to a 15-month jail sentence awarded last week.

With just two days to go before the deadline for South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma to hand himself over to police, he has asked the country’s highest court to review its decision to sentence him to 15 months in jail.

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in jail by the country’s highest court.

Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz stones with relatively low if any value.

Belgian Hugo Broos will replace sacked Molefi Ntseki as coach of South Africa, national football association chief executive Tebogo Motlanthe said in Johannesburg on Wednesday.