Mungo Soggot The United Democratic Movement this week slated the business community for the African National Congress’s majority, saying business could have thwarted the landslide victory had it supported opposition parties The UDM emerged as a significant opposition player, on track this week to bag at least nine seats in the National Assembly, which will […]

Mungo Soggot The Pretoria High Court has dealt another blow to the Mpumalanga Gaming Board by refusing leave to appeal against a court order instructing them to hand over videotapes and documents of its deliberations. The decision is the latest in a series of court orders which have reversed or implicitly questioned decisions taken by […]

Thandi Mahlangu While most party leaders were ushered to the front of long lines of voters on Wednesday, Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico steadfastly refused to jump the queue, waiting in line for seven hours before he finally cast his ballot. “I can’t go to the front – I must wait like everyone else,” Dipico […]

FRENCH President Jacques Chirac sent a message to Moammar Gadaffi praising the Libyan leader for his efforts to bring peace to Africa, Libyan state television said on Thursday. Chirac said “France supports Colonel Gadaffi’s efforts to establish peace and stability in Africa,” the television station said. “Libya plays an important role in the Mediterranean area, […]

NIGERIA’S first parliament in more than 15 years opened Thursday in Abuja, electing a former state governor from southeast Nigeria to the country’s third-highest ranking constitutional position. The 109-member Senate and 360-member House of Representatives, elected in landmark polls in February, were declared opened by the clerks of the two assemblies. The upper chamber elected […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 9.00pm THE Independent Electoral Commission admitted huge errors in its accounting of unverified results late on Friday night as results continued to swing like a pendulum over and then back again behind the mark of an African National Congress two thirds majority. Results late on Friday afternoon showed the […]

THE United Democratic Movement at Bushbuckridge on Thursday claims an Independent Electoral Commission official crooked the voting at nearby Cunningmoore polling station. United Democratic Movement spokesman Jerry Nkuna said the two-thirds majority achieved by the African National Congress at Cunningmoore on Wednesday was obtained fraudulently, and blamed IEC presiding officer Harries Maile. Nkuna said in […]

THE International Committee of the Red Cross will repatriate six Chadian prisoners of war held by the Ugandan army in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ugandan commander said on Thursday in Kisangani. Chadian troops who had been fighting alongside the army of President Laurent Kabila withdrew from the north of the country last month. […]

Peter Dickson Four trees planted by Govan Mbeki decades ago – before the long years on Robben Island – cast their welcome shade over the rundown house and shop in the dust bowl of Kwa- Sofutha, outside the decaying Transkei town of Idutywa. Since the windmill gave up the ghost in the 1980s and the […]

SOUTH Africans Ernie Els and Retief Goosen finished joint fourth in the British PGA Championship on Monday. The even was won by current holder Colin Montgomerie. Pre-tournament favourite Els struggled with his iron play on the final day on Monday and took 68 for a share of fourth place on 277. He was later joined […]