VOTER turnout was low on Sunday in the Malian election for a successor to outgoing President Alpha Oumar Konare, the west African country’s first democratic transition since independence in 1960. The government had appealed to voters to cast their ballots in force in the run-off election but it appeared many Malians had failed to respond […]
EGYPT?S high state security court slated three hearings this week for the retrial of human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges of defaming Egypt’s reputation internationally.
Western Cape premier Peter Marais’ anti-homosexual statements are ”his
personal view”, the New National Party (NNP) said on Monday.
ZIMBABWE’S Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Monday that President Robert Mugabe had no trouble travelling to the United States for a UN meeting, despite sanctions that normally should bar him from entering the country.
SOUTH Africa is the only country in the world to have boosted its tourism inflow since the terror attacks on the United States last September.
THE 2002 Super 12 rugby season will best be remembered for two chief reasons; the first being the incredible run of 11 successive wins by the all-conquering Crusaders and, secondly, for the absolutely shocking display by the South African sides.
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SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour says he wants Jomo Sono and Gordon Igesund to patch up their row for the good of South African soccer.
THE South African police hoped to reopen about one million unsolved criminal cases by the end of the year.
FIVE Fifa vice-presidents began legal action against beleaguered Fifa president Sepp Blatter in Zurich on Friday.