Yearly Archives: 1999

A LOCAL magazine has apologised to Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa, (42) for publishing a photograph of him in the nude. Moosa became the first South African politician to appear naked in a magazine — but not by design according to his office. “The minister considers the matter to be closed,” his office […]

THE All Blacks have decided to adopt a more aggressive pre-match haka in a bid to help their World Cup chances. The new, improved haka is figuring prominently in New Zealand’s World Cup preparations and will debut when the All Blacks kick off their campaign against Tonga at Bristol on Sunday. The new version of […]

TWO West African men who dreamed of a new life in Europe, in exchange for helping load a cargo vessel with timber in the Ivory Coast, ended up on a raft in raging shark-infested seas off the Eastern Cape coast before miraculously paddling to shore — and an Alexandria police cell — over the weekend. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nelspruit | Thursday 8.45pm. THE ANC has accused Public Protector Selby Baqwa of violating his powers, wasting tax money and acting subjectively during his probe into Mpumalanga’s “lies scandal”. Accusing Baqwa of acting without a mandate and of dangerously undermining the credibility of his office, ANC speaker after speaker rose to reject the […]

AMPLATS reached an agreement with the National Employees Trade Union on Wednesday on wages and conditions of employment for the 1999/2000 period, ending a strike begun on Tuesday. The core of the agreement is an 8% increase in wages, but other details of conditions of employment were not specified in the company’s statement.

SIX people were arrested on Tuesday following the murder of a 63-year-old woman at Kampeng Village near Pietersburg at the weekend, Northern Province police reported. Clara Shabangu was stoned and then necklaced after she was accused of poisoning her 14-year old neighbour, Keledi Mziza. Keledi died last Friday after she allegedly ate meat given to […]

INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency, Duff & Phelps (DCR), has placed the domestic ratings of Nedcor Bank and Standard Bank on positive rating watch, following the recent announcement that the banks are investigating a merger. FitchIBCA expressed concerns about industry and risk concentration when evaluating the firms’ ratings. According to DCR analyst, Charles Nel, if the […]

African National Congress MP Duma Nkosi was shot and seriously injured during what police suspect to be an attempted hijacking in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. Nkosi, the chairman of Parliament’s minerals and energy portfolio committee, and his wife were sitting in their car outside a house in Senoaone at 6.10pm when four gunmen approached them […]

THE Dutch parliament has cancelled its annual 15 million dollar aid programme for Zimbabwe because of human rights violations and other factors. The alleged torture of journalists, a lack of good governance and Zimbabwe’s military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo are among issues which led to aid being cut, said embassy spokesman Emiel […]

CAPE Empowerment Trust (CET) has emerged successfully from its maiden year of operations despite delays in the release of its first annual report. According to its results released on Wednesday, turnover for the Western Cape-based empowerment initiative reached R18849-million for the period ended 28 February. Net income consolidated at R14264-million and earnings per share were […]