In less than a week, voters across South Africa will head to the polls in the country's general election.
The opposition party, Congress of the People, claims it will win despite huge support for the ruling African
National Congress (ANC).
Before the vote, Al Jazeera is travelling across the country to find out which issues matter most - among is a
lack of basic services.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa travelled to the town of Klerksdorp to see how people are coping.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"