CAIRO – Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak has been treated in a military hospital after slipping and injuring his head, state media say. Mubarak fell in a prison toilet last Friday, injuring his head and bruising his chest, Mena news agency reported. Deputy interior minister Gen Mohammed Ibrahim said Mubarak was returned to prison on…
BLOEMFONTEIN – The ANC announced the results of its leadership elections at its national elective conference at the University of the Free State campus in Mangaung on Tuesday afternoon. President Jacob Zuma won an overwhelming majority of votes to retain his position as ANC president, beating his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe, who ran against him. Zuma…
HARARE – The African National Congress (ANC) is set for a senior leadership tussle in Mangaung next week, with Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe taking on President Jacob Zuma for the party’s top position. Thabo Masebe, spokesman for Mr Motlanthe, confirmed on Thursday that the politician had accepted a nomination to run for the position. Mr…
HARARE – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who is 94 and has been in hospital since Saturday for tests, has suffered a recurrence of a lung infection but is responding to treatment, the government said on Tuesday. The revered anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace laureate is spending his fourth day in a hospital in…
JOHANNESBURG – A military plane carrying 11 passengers has crashed in South Africa’s mountainous east. The plane, which had been travelling from Pretoria to Mthatha, went missing on Wednesday but the initial search was abandoned due to poor weather. The wreckage was found in the Drakensberg Mountains, near Ladysmith, in KwaZulu-Natal province. Unconfirmed reports said…
HARARE – The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi. The streets of the capital are now reported to be calm following the earlier violence that left five people dead and hundreds injured. Egypt is seeing growing…
JOHANNESBURG – The African National Congress (ANC) must emerge from its national conference in Mangaung as a restored party with a committed leadership, says the South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande. “We believe that the Mangaung conference can and must mark a further step in restoring the ANC to its traditions of…
CAIRO – Backers of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi are to hold a mass rally to support his sweeping new powers and the drafting of a constitution opponents say is too Islamist. The demonstration in Cairo comes after days of rival protests by supporters and opponents of the president. His opponents are angry that the draft…
FREETOWN – Sierra Leone’s incumbent president won re-election and was sworn in for a second term, pledging to boost the economy of the nation scarred by years of civil war. President Ernest Koroma got nearly 59% of the vote, beating his closest competitor’s 37% in an election international observers described as peaceful. By getting more…
CAIRO – More than 20 Egyptian rights groups have called on President Mohammed Mursi to withdraw the decree granting himself extensive new powers. The 22 groups signed an open letter saying the president “has dealt a lethal blow to the Egyptian judiciary”. Opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei has said there can be no dialogue with Mr…
