Yearly Archives: 1999

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Wednesday 11.00am. A SOUTH African businessman wanted on fraud charges on Wednesday lost an appeal against his extradition from Australia as authorities said he had been missing for months. Australian authorities said a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Jacob Johannes De Bruyn, wanted for allegedly defrauding South Africa’s […]

Graca Machel has provided inspired leadership on all levels — in Mozambique, South Africa and internationally — for many years, the University of Cape Town’s vice-chancellor Mamphela Ramphele said on Tuesday. She was responding to the announcement that Machel has accepted the position as chancellor of the university. Machel succeeds Harry Oppenheimer who was chancellor […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 8.30am. ALI Bacher, chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) development committee, said on Monday the number of teams at the 2003 World Cup in SA should be increased from 12 to 14. Bacher said test-playing countries had to support the development of cricket among ICC associate members to ensure […]

THE economy has lost 55293 employees in the formal non-agricultural business sector in the three months to June 1999, Statistics SA reported on Tuesday. The overall reduction was from a workforce of 4937830 employees in March. The decrease occurred mainly in three sectors — manufacturing; construction; and community, social and personal services including government. Statistics […]

A DAM threatens to burst in the far north of Cameroon, endangering about 200000 people in the Maroua district. An administrator, Alexandre Njoya, said the Maga dam, which holds back more than 35-million cubic metres of water destined for irrigation was at risk of cracking because of heavy rains. Those most immediately in danger were […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.00pm. SOUTH African club Orlando Pirates defied the odds to defeat ASM Sangaredi 3-1 in Guinea on Sunday and reach the African Cup Winners Cup semi-finals. Former African Champions Cup winners Pirates took a one-goal lead into the second leg of a delayed quarter-final and led 3-0 by half-time through […]

SOUTH AFRICAN President Thabo Mbeki flew to Tanzania on Sunday for talks with President Benjamin Mkapa and an address on promoting democracy in southern Africa. On Monday, Mbeki is due to address the first annual meeting of the Electoral Commissions’ Forum of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community. The meeting will focus on ways to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 6.30pm. CRUSHED by India in their opening match, South Africa bounced back to score a convincing nine-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the L.G.Cup quadrangular tournament in Nairobi on Tuesday – spearheaded by a century from Lance Klusener. The powerful pinchhitter, who was South Africa’s star during the World Cup, hit […]

SIXTY-NINE people were murdered on farms and smallholdings in the first six months of this year, according to Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. The figure for the whole of 1998 was 142, and for 1997 it was 85, he said in reply to a parliamentary question on Tuesday. Although he was unable to say […]