SOUTH AFRICA HIGHLIGHTS

The mayor of uMzumbe municipality on the KZN south coast, Sizwe Ngcobo, would next week vacate his local position for a bigger one as Ugu district mayor.

Cases of public violence are being investigated by the Western Cape police after four days of violent protests that flared up in Hout Bay.

A 10-year-old girl was robbed of her cellphone and shot in Wembezi, near Escourt.

A year after Prasa promised to set aside women and children-only train carriages in Cape Town, the project appears to have been abandoned.