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.

AFRICAN leaders and senior international bankers will meet in Libreville in January to discuss anti-poverty strategies and economic growth in the region. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Michel Camdessus, the president of the African Development Bank (ADB), Omar Kabbaj, and governors of a number of African central banks will attend the January […]

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 […]