Yearly Archives: 1999

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 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 […]

THE JSE may link up with London Stock Exchange that will allow the exchanges to trade on the same platform, according to the Business Report. The newspaper reports the JSE’s executive president, Russell Loubser, has refused to confirm this but alluded to a possible alliance in an address to the US-South Africa Business and Finance […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 7.00pm. THE seven-day srike by junior doctors in Zimbabwe prompted a meeting by the country’s health and finance ministers on Monday to decide whether to pay the strikers. Hospital Doctors Association President Nyasha Masuka said that health minister, Timothy Stamps, acting finance minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and the head of the […]

SUDANESE crude oil has resumed flowing to the Beshair export terminal on the Red Sea after the repair of a blown-up section of the pipeline in northern Sudan. Energy and mining ministry secretary general Hassan Mohamed Ali al-Tom said the pumping of the crude through the pipeline resumed Friday after successful tests were made, following […]

EASTERN Cape police report that a motorist was killed and four people critically injured when he swerved to avoid a goat near Qumbu in Transkei on Thursday. The driver of a Toyota Corolla was killed instantly when he swerved to avoid a goat in the road and collided head-on with an oncoming bakkie. Three passengers […]

PETER KING, Cairo | Monday 7.00pm. HOSNI Mubarak was confirmed Egypt’s president for a fourth term on Monday in a yes-or-no popular ballot that Western diplomats called a “formality,” but hoped would pave the way for further economic reforms. Mubarak won 93,79% of the vote in Sunday’s nationwide vote. One Western diplomat said that although […]

SOUTH AFRICA’s state-owned arms manufacturer Denel this week unveiled an anti-impotence pump for men who want to make love and not war, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. The vacuum pump produces an erection in 90% of cases and is less cumbersome than existing varieties, according to developer Irenco, the plastics division of Denel. “We do […]