Johannesburg - A cash grab by South Africa's national football team for the Confederations Cup ended in failure as the host players' demands for hefty bonuses were rejected out of hand, officials said Wednesday.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) won the country's election with a decisive majority according to results Saturday - but appeared to have fallen just short of the two-thirds majority it wanted to enable it to change the constitution. With around 99 per cent of votes counted, Jacob Zuma's ANC had 66.2 per cent of votes to the 400-seat National Assembly, against 16 per cent for the Democratic Alliance of Cape Town mayor Helen Zille and 7 per cent for the the fledgling Congress of the People.

Zimbabwe's central bank says it will soon introduce a 100-trillion-dollar banknote as the country battles to keep pace with hyperinflation that has left the once-vibrant economy in tatters.

At least 38 people died in a cholera outbreak in the northern Mozambique province of Nampula, SAPA news agency quoted a state-controlled newspaper as saying Friday.

The fourth body from a fishing boat accident at the beginning of the week washed up on a South African beach, the South African Press Association reported Friday, citing the National Sea Rescue Instit

Two men were rescued after they climbed a 50- metre tower in Johannesburg to get "closer to Jesus" on Christmas Day, the South African Press Association reported Friday, citing paramedics.

Two men were rescued after they climbed a 50- metre tower in Johannesburg to get "closer to Jesus" on Christmas Day, the South African Press Association reported Friday, citing paramedics.

Rescuers were searching for 14 missing passengers and crew members Tuesday after a boat sank off the South African coast in bad weather the previous night.