Yearly Archives: 1999

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Tuesday 2.00pm. THE Ministry for Provincial and Local Government said all 812 municipalities which provide essential services to the public, are well on their way to becoming Y2K compliant before the millenium change over. The cost of analysing and ‘de-bugging’ municipal systems is estimated at some R400-million. While the North West […]

A LONE protester scaled the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Monday in a demonstration against an African oil pipeline the bank plans to help finance. Harold Linde of San Francisco — a member of the Rainforest Action Network — used cables forming part of the facade of the glass-fronted building to climb up nine […]

THE South African National Civics Organisation, waging a controversial war on crime in the face of ineffective policing in East London’s Mdantsane township, has vowed to seize all police vans found outside shebeens and shopping centres. Sanco’s latest anti-crime drive, announced by publicity officer Mzwandile Buzani, involves driving the vans back to police stations after […]

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 […]

The former Transkei parliament, Umtata’s Bunga building, will be converted to house all the gifts received by Mandela during his term of office.

THE headless body of a 60-year-old man was found in bushes in a rural village near Thohoyandou in Northern Province on Monday. Police spokesman Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the victim’s arms and a leg had been sawed off. The victim, identified as William Mulaudzi, was found by a passerby on Monday afternoon in Khubvi village, […]

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 […]

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 LONE protester scaled the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Monday in a demonstration against an African oil pipeline the bank plans to help finance. Harold Linde of San Francisco — a member of the Rainforest Action Network — used cables forming part of the facade of the glass-fronted building to climb up nine […]

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 […]