OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.40pm THE Consumer Price Index for November released on Tuesday showed consumer prices rose 1,9% year-on-year compared with a 1,7% rise in October. Core inflation rose 8,1% year-on-year versus 8 percent in October. Economists are mixed about how to read the data. ”It is worse than we had been looking […]

ZIMBABWE beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the fifth and final one-day cricket international in Harare on Sunday. Sri Lanka were 202 all out in 48.2 overs, while Zimbabwe scored 206-4 in 46.2 overs. Tillerkratne Dilshan’s maiden half-century brightened an otherwise dowdy Sri Lankan batting display. Dilshan scored 51 off 73 balls including two […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. LONG-TIME pacesetters Sundowns lost and regained the Castle Premiership lead within 150 minutes on Sunday after defeating Ajax Cape Town 2-0 at Bellville Stadium in Cape Town. Alex Bapela scored midway through the first half for the ‘Brazilians’ and Joel Masilela made sure the defending champions returned to Gauteng […]

THE country’s national news agency, the South African Press Association, has sold its radio division, Network Radio Services, to multi-media company Dotcom, the two groups announced in a joint statement on Friday. The sale was agreed at a meeting on Friday afternoon. Network Radio Services (NRS) runs Network Radio News, the largest syndicated news service […]

SOUTH African companies will from next week shut down their internet and e-mail connections to avoid a rash of computer viruses expected to strike on January 1. More than 10 prominent companies, including the top commercial banks, as among those who will cut their electronic links until a few days after New Year’s Eve to […]

THE town council of the Afrikaner seperatist community Orania has been ordered by the Delimitation Board to form a unified municipality with Hopetown and Strydenburg. Orania’s spokesman, Carel Boshoff, said on Friday afternoon that within such a municipality the community of Orania would be in a minority and be frustrated in its efforts for independence. […]

IBO leaders from Nigeria’s southeast are demanding $87-billion in government compensation for civil war during the 1960s and years of subsequent marginalisation. A petition from the Ohaneze group submitted to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s human rights panel and published in local newspapers catalogued perceived wrongs against the Ibos from ethnic riots in 1966 to date.

FINAL official results from Mozambique’s second democratic elections are due to be announced on Monday, an electoral official said. “The final results will be announced in principle tomorrow,” National Elections Commission (CNE) spokesman Julio Bika told AFP on Sunday. The results of the presidential and parliamentary elections, held in early December, could not be announced […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has met Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Tunis for talks on ways to restore peace in Africa’s Great Lakes region, Libyan state television reported. Gaddafi and Kabila met in Tripoli on Sunday night to discuss mechanisms to implement a peace accord concluded earlier this year between […]

GABON’S Finance Minister, Emile Doumba, has moved to calm disgruntled civil servants in an open letter defending his cash-strapped government’s plan to slash salaries by up to 25%. In his letter, published by national media, Doumba said the cuts were essential to reduce government spending in the face of sliding revenues and falling oil production.