MOZAMBIQUE’S Supreme Court has concluded investigations into allegations of electoral fraud filed last month by the country’s main opposition Renamo party, state radio reported on Monday. “The court has concluded its investigations and the final verdict will be announced Tuesday morning,” said Radio Mozambique. Renamo denounced last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as fraudulent and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.45am PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki accused the West on Monday of failing to do enough to tackle Africa’s economic and political problems. “Not enough is being done about that. There needs to be taken a decision really without equivocation,” Mbeki told CNN in his first television interview of the year, and […]

THREE French tourists, including two children, were murdered by gunmen dressed in uniforms on Monday on the road between Andara and Bagani about 40 kilometres west of Rundu in Namibia. SABC radio news said on Tuesday that the gunmen opened fire on a minibus on the same road shortly before the attack on the tourists. […]

FOUR more bodies have been found in the hold of a Liberian-registered cargo ship, the Karonga, which was unloading 8500 tons of cocoa in the port of Ilheus, bringing the total of dead stowaways to 10. The bodies of six other stowaways, believed to be Africans traveling without papers, were found on Friday on the […]

ENGLAND all-rounder Andrew Flintoff could miss the remainder of the tour of South Africa after fracturing his left foot during the second day of the fourth test on Monday. “He has a fracture of the second metacarple of his left foot,” said team physio Dean Conway. “He will definitely not bowl again in this test […]

THE leader of the political opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Etienne Tshisekedi, held talks on Monday with expatriate Congolese groups in South Africa on one of his first trips outside the DRC in years. Tshisekedi, a long-time foe of the late Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor Laurent Kabila, fielded questions from […]

THE death toll on South African roads since the beginning of December passed the 800 mark on Tuesday, Arrive Alive said in a statement in Pretoria. The traffic safety campaign said 810 lives have been lost in 566 accidents. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded the highest death toll with 122 fatalities. The death toll in […]

TWO more of the eight prisoners who escaped from an East London prison last week have been captured, leaving four still at large. The two captured on Monday were a man facing rape charges and a teenager facing house breaking charges. The men will appear in court tomorrow.

AN envoy for the president of the Organisation of African Unity on Tuesday held what he called ”extremely positive” talks with Cte d’Ivoire junta chief General Robert Guei, who took power last month. The OAU has condemned the coup that brought the former chief of general staff to power on December 24, when mutinous troops […]