South Africa has one of the highest crime rates and is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
In an initiative to boost its security force, South African police have been ordered to shape up or ship out in a newly launched "get fit" programme.
The fitness initiative comes after a recent study found that more than half of police officers in the port city of Elizabeth are "clinically obese".
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"