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"We will take those guns to the furnace and build a statue of Senzo Meyiwa. You will decide how big that statue will be. That statue will stand in front of Safa house. When you walk in, you must walk past Senzo," Danny Jordaan.

You can run but you can't hide': Mbalula to Meyiwa killers

Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa's killers will be caught and brought to book, Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula warned at a memorial service in Johannesburg on Thursday.

"You can run but you can't hide," Mbalula said at the Standard Bank Arena to pay homage to three sporting figures who died in the past week.

"If they are your friends, if they are your boyfriends, release them," he said to the cheers of sports fans.

"This nation will ever be at ease until we've found them and the machinery of justice is grinding. Each one of us has the responsibility because somewhere, somehow, someone knows who killed Senzo Meyiwa."

He was shot dead in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, while visiting his singer girlfriend Kelly Khumalo on Sunday evening. Two men entered the house demanding cellphones. They shot him before fleeing.

Kelly allowed to attend Senzo's funeral

Kelly Khumalo is welcome after all at the funeral of her boyfriend Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa.

“Parents say many things when they are upset,” said Meyiwa family spokesman Siyabonga Meyiwa after the football star’s father Sam initially banned her.

According to Siyabonga Meyiwa the family would also like the goalie’s children to be present, including his child with the singer and actress.

Khumalo and Meyiwa were in a relationship when he was killed in a shooting at her family’s home in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, on Sunday night.

The footballer was married to Mandisa Mkhize.

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Khumalo not welcome at Meyiwa's funeral: Report

Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa's family have barred his girlfriend and mother of his child, Kelly Khumalo, from attending his funeral in Durban.

"The service is open to anyone who wants to come to pay their last respects to Senzo, but that girl [Kelly Khumalo] is not welcome. She mustn't even think about coming," Meyiwa's father, Samuel was quoted as saying."

Gauteng detective unit head Maj-Gen Norman Taioe told reporters in Johannesburg that Meyiwa was shot in his upper body while visiting his girlfriend, singer and actress Kelly Khumalo, in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, on Sunday night.

Two men entered the house as the 27-year-old national team and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper and captain and his friends were leaving. One of the attackers was waiting outside.

"Senzo and his friends were leaving when the two entered the house. One of the attackers bumped into the first friend and a scuffle ensued," Taioe said on Monday.

One shot was fired inside the house, and two more were fired randomly outside. The three fled the scene with a stolen cellphone.

A reward of up R250,000 was being offered for information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of the killers.

Police have released identikits of two dreadlocked men with gold teeth believed to be involved in Meyiwa's shooting.

Meyiwa would be buried in Durban on Saturday."

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Meyiwa's burial date announced

Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa will be buried in Umlazi, Durban, on Saturday, his club Orlando Pirates said on Tuesday.

Senzo Meyiwa with his golden glove award during the Orlando Pirates Players Awards on the 23 July 2014 at Wanderes Ballroom Club. Meyiwa will be buried in Umlazi, Durban, on Saturday.

Zambia confirms the death of President Michael Sata

The Zambian government has confirmed that President Michael Sata has died after an illness.

Roland Msiska, secretary to the Zambian Cabinet, said in a statement Wednesday that Sata died late Tuesday in London, where he was being treated for an undisclosed illness.

Msiska says Sata's wife, Christine Kaseba, and other family members were with the 77-year-old president when he died.

Private Muzi television station and the Zambia Reports and Zambian Watchdog websites said the southern African nation's cabinet was about to meet.

Michael Chilufya Sata was born in 1937 in Mpika, in the Northern Province of Zambia.

He came to power in September 2011 and became Zambia’s fifth President after the country gained independence in 1964.

Before independence he was a police officer, railway man and trade unionist.

Under the leadership of Zambia’s first Republican President Kenneth Kaunda, Sata became the governor of the capital city, Lusaka.

During the campaign for the return to multi-party elections in 1991, he left the ruling Party UNIP to join the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy MMD under the leadership of Frederick Chiluba.

When the MMD won the 1991 elections, he served in the ministries of local government, labour and health.

He was later appointed minister without portfolio.

In 2001, Sata left the MMD when the then President Chiluba opted to appoint Levy Mwanawasa as the Party’s flag-bearer as opposed to himself.

He then formed the Patriotic Front, which contested and lost elections in 2001, 2006 and in 2008.

Sata then ran for the Presidency for a fourth time in September 2011 and won forty three percent of the vote.

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Meyiwa killing: Police release identikit of two suspects

Police have released an identikit of two of the three suspects involved in slain Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa.

Meyiwa was shot dead at his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo's house in Vosloorus Erkhuruleni on Sunday, October 27.

On Monday, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega announced that police had launched a high level investigation into Meyiwa's death.

The reward for information which would lead to the arrest and conviction of those involved has been increased from R150,000 to R250,000.

South Africa's Bafana Bafana Captain Shot Dead

South Africa officials have confirmed the killing of Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa by unknown armed attackers.

Meyiwa was said to have be gunned down by intruders when trying to protect his girlfriend during a robbery at her home near Johannesburg on Sunday night.

As reported on SuperSports, the 27-year-old goalkeeper died after suffering a single shot through the chest at the home of his girlfriend identified as Kelly Khumalo.

"Two guys entered the house and demanded cell phones, money and other valuables," provincial Community Safety official, Sizakele Nkosi-Malubane, told reporters at the scene.

"Senzo tried to protect Kelly because one of the men had a gun pointed towards her."

Police said two men entered Khumalo's house about 8p.m. local time (1800 GMT). A third waited outside the house and all three fled immediately after the shooting.

Meyiwa was declared dead on arrival at hospital, the police added.

"We can assure all South Africans that we will do all we can to bring Meyiwa's killers (to) book," the South African Police Service said on its Twitter account, offering a reward of R150 000.

Meyiwa captained South Africa in their last four matches in the African Nations Cup qualifiers without conceding a goal and playedon Saturday when his club advanced to the semi-finals of the South African League Cup.

"This is a sad loss whichever way you look at it -- to Senzo's family, his extended family, Orlando Pirates and to the nation," Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza said in a statement.

The death of Meyiwa makes it the second high profile death in sporting circles in South Africa in a matter of days as only recently 800m runner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi also died in a car crash.

South Africa: Meyiwa Jersey to be Retired

Johannesburg — In commemoration of Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa, Orlando Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza has announced the goalkeeper's number one jersey at the club will be retired.

"I don't think anyone can replace Senzo and his jersey will never be worn by anyone else again," Khoza said.

Meyiwa, the 27-year-old Pirates captain, was shot dead while visiting his girlfriend in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, on Sunday evening.

He is the second player to be honoured in this way, with former striker Lesley Manyathela's number 22 Pirates shirt retired after he died in a car accident in 2003.

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Curious bystanders opposite the Vosloorus house where Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot the night before. Police lifted fingerprints from surfaces in the kitchen, where police say Meyiwa scuffled with armed robbers who stole a mobile phone

Soweto derby postponed following Meyiwa's death

The Premier Soccer League has confirmed that this weekend's Soweto Derby between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs has been postponed following the death of Pirates keeper Senzo Meyiwa.

The 27-year-old Meyiwa was shot and killed on Sunday in what is believed to have been a botched robbery at his girlfriend's house in Vosloorus.

The two clubs had written a letter to the PSL requesting that Saturday's fixture be rescheduled, with the PSL on Monday announcing that they had obliged.

Bafana Bafana Captain Senzo Meyiwa has been killed

Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead, the SA Football Association confirmed on Sunday.

Safa spokesperson Dominic Chimhavi confirmed the 27-year-old had been shot dead.

The South African Police Service tweeted information shortly before midnight:

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Zimbabwe student challenge Grace Mugabe's Phd

A Zimbabwe student union Zinasu was due to take Grace Mugabe to court on Wednesday.

This involves a PhD which the first lady was awarded by the University of Zimbabwe.

Critics are asking why Grace Mugabe's thesis does not appear online.

The country's vice president Joice Mujuru  graduated with a PhD at the same time.

Her thesis already appears on the University of Zimbabwe website.

To explain this the state-owned Herald quoted an unnamed senior academic at UZ.

It's claimed that publishing a PhD dissertation can take to up to a year and that of the 12 PhD students only the vice president’s thesis had been uploaded.

Student union Zinasu denies it’s targeting the first lady. 

But that it's protecting the credibility of the country’s education system.

This follows reports that President Robert Mugabe's wife got her degree just two months after she registered for the course.

Woman Hides On Roof As Intruder Looks For Her

A quiet morning in bed escalated into a terrifying ordeal for one young woman when a burglar broke into her house, forcing her to hide on her roof.

Melora Rivera’s entire horrific escapade was captured on camera by bystander Alexandria Thompson, who was snapping photos on a cellphone while Rivera huddled under the eaves of a bank of windows, barely blocked from the view of the home intruder just feet away from her. Rivera, who was laying in bed when the break in began, grabbed her phone while on the run to the roof. She called 911 and spoke to the dispatcher while crouched below the eaves.

“He managed to break one of these panels and reach in to unlock the door,” Rivera told CBS LA. “Once I saw him in the house, I knew that we both couldn’t be there. I knew that I didn’t want to have a confrontation with him of any sort, you know, not knowing what his intention was.”

The would-be burglar was identified as Christian Hicks, 29, a well-known homeless person from the area. As it happens, a neighbor of Rivera’s had called police at 7:30 that same morning to report Hicks meandering through a yard.

“I saw this guy this morning in handcuffs,” Thompson reported to CBS LA. “I’ve seen him in my yard. I called the police.”

Winnie Mandela wants Qunu: Lawyers file claim

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's lawyers have filed papers at the high court in Mthatha, to lay a claim on her former husband’s home in Qunu. Madikizela-Mandela says the house belongs to her in terms of customary law. While Nelson Mandela's will says"The Qunu property should be used inorder to preserve the unity of the Mandela family".