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.

AT least 432 people have been killed in 286 crashes on South African roads since the start of the festive season on December 1, Arrive Alive reported on Monday night. Of those killed 116 were drivers, 197 were passengers and 119 pedestrians. Eastern Cape usurped KwaZulu-Natal’s dubious distinction of having the highest number of deaths […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. Moroka Swallows (1) 2 (Nkosi 8, Mazibuko 83) Free State Stars (0) 1 (Maboe 66) AFTER the magic provided by Classic and Hellenic in Tembisa on Saturday, it was back to the more pedestrian fare usually served up at Castle Premiership matches 24 hours later under an appropriate grey […]

ANGLOGOLD has extended the deadline for acceptances of its offer for all the shares of Australian gold company Acacia Resources Limited until December 24. In a statement Anglo said acceptances for 89,6% of Acacia shares had been received by the December 17 deadline. Anglo CEO Bobby Godsell said many Acacia shareholders many not have had […]

DANNI Clifford, the little St Helena girl admitted to a Cape Town hospital in October, after a mercy dash from her St Helena island home for treatment for acute leukaemia, died on Friday. A spokesman for St Helena Lines said that six-year-old Danni died at 1pm at the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic.

STEVEN MANN, Johannesburg | Sunday 11.30am. WITH just 11 days to go until biggest party the world has ever seen, some of South Africa’s largest corporates and parastatals have pledged millions of rand towards local millennium celebrations. Eskom, First National Bank, Vodacom, the Post Office and Transnet were on Saturday named as official sponsors for […]