South African Currie Cup champions Western Province made an impressive title-defence debut on Saturday by outplaying Free State Cheetahs 32-0 in wet and windy Cape Town. The rain at Newlands stadium became so torrential early in the second half that the tiny crowd and TV viewers could barely recognise the players. With the conditions preventi ...

Ex-warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba's political party on Saturday announced it would appeal a decision to reject his candidacy in DR Congo's upcoming presidential elections. Late on Friday, the election commission had ruled out Bemba running on the basis that he had been convicted by the International Criminal Court in March 2018 for bribing witnesse ...

Former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba's candidacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo's upcoming presidential elections was deemed inadmissible by the country's election commission on Friday, as opposition groups cried foul. The commission rejected the candidacy of Bemba, a rival to DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, on the basis that he had been c ...