By Graeme Hosken Crime Reporter A friendly, outgoing and popular 17 year old Pretoria schoolgirl has been found hacked to death in her bed, her body mutilated.

Anika "Tikkie" Smit, 17, whose Facebook profile was on Thursday flooded with condolences and messages of outrage from friends, was found half naked on her bed by her father, Johan, when he got home from work on Wednesday night.

Anika, who returned to her father's Theresa Park home in October after living with her mother in the Eastern Cape, was off school with an earache when she was killed.

Smit on Thursday said the last thing his daughter, who was in Grade 11 at Ho?kool Gerrit Maritz, said to him was that she loved him.

A South African university is training Southern Sudan government leaders in international law, security and other affairs of state as the region prepares for a 2011 independence referendum, university officials said.

The fact that South Africa is a democratic country does not mean disgruntled citizens can do what they want, Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane said in Pretoria on Thursday.

The world needs to prepare for the next economic crisis, even as it begins to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

Thousands of school pupils, teachers, government officials and politicians gathered in Protea South to honour the memory of four learners killed during a drag racing incident in Soweto.

Durban - Five KwaZulu-Natal municipalities were owed over R7bn and there was fear they may be forced to write off R6bn debt which is older than 90 days, Finance MEC Ina Cronje said on Wednesday.

Police have arrested three men in connection with the murder and rape of Elsa Blignaut, 83, at her home in New Muckleneuk.