Yearly Archives: 1999

THE South African Proteas suffered their first loss of the World netball championship when they were beaten 68-39 by hosts New Zealand in Christchurch on Sunday. The Proteas started the tournament off on a positive note after beating Ireland in their first match and went on to overcome Barbados 70-28 and then Trinidad and Tobago […]

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 […]

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 […]

THE World Bank has suspended all its credits to Niger since September 14 after the impoverished west African country failed to honour a debt repayment, an informed source said Sunday. Niger could not repay $1.92-million due in July, the source said. Since Major Daouda Mallam Wanke took power after the April 9 assassination of President […]

STATISTICS South Africa said profitability ratios, or net profit after tax on turnover, for several divisions in the manufacturing industry are up. These include the textile, clothing, leather and footwear divisions, wood, paper and printing divisions, as well as the machinery and transport divisions which are higher in the second quarter of 1999, compared to […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Bloemfontein | Sunday 3.00pm. DESVONDE Botes’ love for platteland courses saw him claim his second Vodacom Tour victory this year with a narrow one-shot triumph in the R200000 Vodacom Series: Free State at the Bloemfontein Golf Club on Saturday. Botes, who won the South African Masters in Welkom earlier this year, overcame a […]

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 […]

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 […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Edinburgh | Monday 2.00pm. PIETER Muller and Krynauw Otto have been axed from the Springboks starting line-up for Sunday’s World Cup opener against Scotland. The pair had been earmarked to reclaim their starting positions in a full strength Springbok line-up. But it now appears that the canny Venter and experienced Andrews have jumped […]

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 […]