Kenya midfielder Victor Wanyama signs for Southampton in a US$18m Scottish record transfer from Celtic.

At least seven people have been killed after a three-story residential building collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos, officials say.

South Africa's former ANC youth leader Julius Malema launches a new political group, calling for land redistribution and mine nationalisation.

The UK will provide £35m to combat the "looming food crisis" in southern Africa, international development minister Lynne Featherstone announces.

Wage negotiations between mining companies and labour unions have begun in South Africa, starting with the gold sector. BBC Africa's Milton Nkosi reports.

Egypt's league is brought to an early end because of the continuing unrest.

Is the sun going down on South Africa's gold mines?

China agrees to give Nigeria a $1.1bn (£700m) low-interest loan to build much-needed infrastructure, including roads and airport terminals.

On 11th July 1963 on Liliesleaf Farm near Johannesburg a police raid on the ANC

Farm from where ANC launched armed struggle against apartheid