Police plans to protect the Nkaneng informal settlement against armed protesters in Marikana last year were at issue before the Farlam Commission of Inquiry on Tuesday.

Former president Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela paid the ailing statesman another visit on Tuesday, at the Pretoria hospital where he spent an 11th day of treatment.

The leaders of major industrial nations including the U.S. and Russia say they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that will produce a government "under a top leadership that inspires public confidence."

The SA Policing Union (Sapu) has expressed sadness over the murder of Maj-Gen Tirhani Simon Maswanganyi, whose body was found on Tuesday morning.