Afternoon edition: 31 July
THE price of petrol will drop by 51 cents a litre for the month of August.
Diesel will see an even bigger fall - by between 74 and 76 cents a litre.
This means a litre of 93 octane petrol will set you back R13.01.
The decrease in the petrol price is mainly due to the drop in international oil prices.
The energy department's Robert Maake.
NATIONAL police commissioner Riah Phiyega has expressed her shock after the recent police killings in South Africa.
A 35-year-old police officer was killed in Jeppestown in Gauteng this morning.
He is the fourth police officer to be killed this week alone.
Police spokesperson Vishnu Naidoo says they will set up an investigation into the killings.
Meanwhile, the police's Solomon Makgale has confirmed Phiyega will meet the deadline, to write to President Jacob Zuma explaining why there should not be an inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
This forms part of the recommendations by President Zuma, after he released the Marikana report last month, into the killings of 34 mineworkers at Marikana in North West in 2012.
THE Grove Shopping Mall in Pretoria East is open for business again, after shoppers were evacuated early on Friday due to a bomb threat.
The mall's marketing manager Pierre Botha says the mall has been declared safe again by police.
The Government of Botswana has condemned the killing of Zimbabwe's beloved lion, Cecil.
Sport hunting has been banned in Botswana, and the government of our neighbouring country are also moving to ensure that Botswana's lions and other large carnivores are not exported to South Africa or any other country for so-called canned hunting.
Two people face charges of poaching after Cecil the Lion was killed in Zimbabwe earlier this month by American dentist Walter Palmer.
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