Togo’s main opposition party is rejecting results announced by the electoral commission that indicate the country’s president has won re-election. The opposition Union of Forces for Change Party is rejecting results that indicate President Faure Gnassingbe won more than 60 percent of Thursday’s ballots, securing his re-election with more than ...

Allegations of forgery, arguments with journalists and mixed-up documentation were all given as reasons why Julius Malema is named as a director of companies that receive government tenders.  At a press conference yesterday Malema’s lawyer, Tumi Mokwena, showed journalists photocopied proof that the companies and intellectual property registration office (Cipro) was in the process of ...

ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says he has lived up to his promise by advising the ANC’s front company to divest its shares in a company benefitting from the electricity price hike.  ANC front company Chancellor House owns 25percent of the shares of Hitachi Africa, which has a R38billion contract to install boilers in two new ...

Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Athol Trollip on Monday urged President Jacob Zuma to use his upcoming official visit to the United Kingdom to take a decisive stand on Zimbabwe.  Zuma is scheduled to leave for the UK on Monday, and Zimbabwe is expected to be high on the agenda.  Trollip said Zuma needed to focus ...

by Sibusiso Ndebele Minister of Transport and chairman of the infrastructure development cluster Early this week during the infrastructure development cluster media briefing, we announced the government’s plans to improve and expedite infrastructure to boost social and economic development.  As signs of economic recovery are showing, we need to make the best out of our infrastructure ...