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African Cup exodus threatens to silence vuvuzelas
A string of first-round flops by African teams on home turf threatened to muzzle the buzz of the vuvuzela on Wednesday.
Jordaan savours reality of World Cup dream
As the World Cup kicks off Friday in Johannesburg, Danny Jordaan will be forgiven a smile to himself from his front-row seat.
Leaders fear for outcome of climate summit
Prospects for an ambitious accord to tame global warming darkened on Thursday with the UN summit deadlocked.
World leaders try to save floundering climate summit
World leaders began arriving at the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks.
Doing nothing in Zim ‘not an option’
An emergency summit of Southern African leaders on Zimbabwe’s post-election crisis opened on Saturday with a plea from its chairperson not to turn a blind eye, but President…
Bid to sack Arthur as selector blocked
The turmoil at the top of South African cricket deepened on Sunday when the board’s chief executive overruled a move to sack coach Mickey Arthur as a selector in a row over…
Mugabe looms over EU-Africa summit
The leaders of Africa and the Europe Union (EU) gathered in Lisbon on Friday for a summit designed to forge a new era in ties, but which is in danger of being overshadowed by the…
Canny Mugabe still a hero for many Africans
Robert Mugabe, a largely unwelcome guest of the European Union at a summit this weekend, is a hero in the eyes of many Africans for daring to stand up to the West and seize land…
Race debate awaits World Cup heroes
They may be the world champions, but the Springboks have few illusions that their new status will stave off a new push by the government to overhaul the team’s racial…
Sri Lanka dump Bangladesh out of T20
Bangladesh were dumped out of the Twenty20 World Championship on Tuesday after slumping to a 64-run defeat to Sri Lanka, whose miserly attack quashed early fears of an upset.…
SA sweats 1 000 days before 2010 kick-off
One thousand days before the most popular show on earth rolls into Africa for the first time, the 2010 Soccer World Cup hosts face a mammoth task in organising the extravaganza…
Reality bites for United States of Africa dream
The drive towards forging a United States of Africa was running out of steam on Wednesday as leaders filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a new…
AU leaders kick off summit in Ghana
Leaders of the African Union begin a three-day summit in Accra, Ghana, on Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states that can help the world’s poorest continent…
ANC leadership contest hots up
A devastating strike and looming policy conference are finally prodding the shadowy contest for the leadership of South Africa’s governing party into the open, even if no…
Thousands flee homes after Maputo blasts
Thousands of people fled their homes in Maputo on Friday, fearing fresh explosions from the smoking wreckage of Mozambique’s largest armoury as emergency workers stockpiled…