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After a disappointing Tri-Nations campaign, South Africa need to start planning their run-up to the World Cup and decide whether to rest senior players, captain John Smit said.

Bafana Bafana head coach Pitso Mosimane said he was prepared to take risks and attack Niger in a bid to get the country's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign off to a winning start at the Mbombela Stadium on Saturday night.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi reportedly told 500 paid hostesses attending a lecture in Rome that Europe should convert to Islam and gave each of them a copy of the Qur'an.

ANCYL president Julius Malema yesterday warned ANC leaders they could be removed at any time. "You must be careful, you'll be on the streets if you don't respect the power of the masses," he told delegates as the ANC Youth League's first national general council came to an end at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.

King Goodwill Zwelithini has called on government and unions to safeguard the country's image by ending the public sector strike.

President Barack Obama has said the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq means "the war is ending" and Baghdad is in position "to chart its own future".

Striking public servants should keep their protests within the limits of "basic human decency", President Jacob Zuma has said.

South African President Jacob Zuma called on Tuesday for greater investment in his country from China, as South Africa seeks to narrow its trade deficit with Beijing and bring growth to its sluggish economy.

Throughout the country, South Africans have answered the call to volunteer their services at various state hospitals, Health Department spokesperson Fidel Hadebe told SA – The Good News today.

Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Friday called on South Africans to throw some meat - or vegetables - on the coals to celebrate the country's heritage with a local barbeque known as a "braai".