WELFARE and Population Development Minister Zola Skweyiya unveiled a five-year plan on Friday to ensure that welfare services are accessible to the poorest of the poor. The new plan aims to restore ethics of care and human development and promote the culture of volunteerism. The department will also design an integrated poverty-eradication strategy and develop […]

UGANDA have been asked to host the East and Central Africa club championship, officials said in Kampala. Original hosts Sudan were ruled out after a state of emergency was introduced and Eritrea said they could not afford to stage a competition won last year by Young Africans of Tanzania.

WHILE the eyes of the world are on the opening of his famous royal relative’s museum in Umtata in February, influential young Tembu paramount chief Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo will be appearing in the high court in a desperate last battle to stave off a five-year jail term for sabotage. Dalindyebo, third king to rule the Tembu […]

FRENCH magazine France Football has voted Tunisia number one in its annual poll of national teams. Senegal, Burkina Faso, Gabon, South Africa, Morocco, Zambia, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cote d’Ivoire completed the top 10.

ITALIAN-based Cote d’Ivoire midfielder Saliou Lassissi has been detained in a military camp on Abidjan after he was dropped from the national squad for the African Nations Cup for indiscipline, newspaper reports said.

PRINCE Ernst-August of Hanover, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and a gang of men have put a German hotel and disco owner in intensive care after a punchup in Kenya. The disco owner, Joe Brunnlehner, was on Sunday being treated in hospital in the Kenyan coast city of Mombasa, where his wife Narriman said […]

NICOLE MORDANT and DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Monday 5.45pm HARMONY Gold company said on Monday it has taken operational control of Randfontein Estates after a sweetened R862-million bid won the approval of Randfontein’s board. ”Randfontein, as of this morning, will be flying the Harmony flag,” Harmony CE Bernard Swanepoel told analysts at a briefing in […]

KENYAN riot police used tear gas in central Nairobi on Friday against about 100 protesting students who threw stones at the police and at passing motorists, blocking the city’s main highway. The clashes followed similar unrest on Thursday, which broke out between supporters of rival political groups with opposing views on who should draw up […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Saturday 5.30pm. FIVE people were killed late on Friday in a gun attack on a vehicle travelling along Namibia’s border with Angola, near where three French children were killed on January 3, Namibian police said on Saturday. The five dead are believed to have been Namibians working for the Ministry of […]

REBELS massacred 40 civilians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo on December 31, Zimbabwe’s army said in a statement on Friday. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the report, which said the slaughter occurred at Kataki village west of Manono in Shaba province. “On the night of December 31 the rebels […]