Yearly Archives: 1999

ORGANISERS at the world netball championships in New Zealand, which are due to start on Tuesday, are having trouble locating the Botswana team. The southern Africans have as yet not arrived in the country, but the Malawian team arrived at long last, four days late. The championship organisers aren’t confident that Botswana will take up […]

TWO Hugenote High School matriculants have been killed in a head-on collision in Springs on the East Rand. Gauteng police said the accident happened as they were on their way home from a matric dance early on Thursday morning. Another four people were injured in the accident, which occurred on the Z Road around 3.30am, […]

SOUTH AFRICAN sympathisers gathered at the Indonesian Embassy in Pretoria on Friday calling for a complete withdrawal of Indonesian troops from East Timor. In a memorandum addressed to Indonesian President B J Habibie, the sixty-odd protestors also demanded the immediate recognition of the independence of East Timor. The protesters lit candles in memory of those […]

NATIONAL Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was on Wednesday refused leave to appeal against a ruling that saw the return of assets seized by his unit from Wouter Basson, former head of South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme. Judge Pierre Roux of the Pretoria High Court said there is no chance of success […]

THE Cape rugby club involved in a brawl in which several people were assaulted, one seriously, has been fined R5000 and suspended indefinitely. Paarl Rangers fans allegedly assaulted Herman Abrahams, the manager of club rugby in the WPRFU, and two referees, Theuns Griebenow and Michael Vermeulen after a match on 18 September between Rangers and […]

A NINE-MONTH-OLD boy has died and four people are in a serious condition after drinking tea laced with poison at a farm compound outside Hluhluwe in Zululand. Hluhluwe police are investigating allegations that a 12-year-old girl sprinkled ant poison in the family’s food and in their tea on Wednesday, because she had a grudge against […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Friday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa and Zimbabwe have included several youngsters in their teams to face India and hosts Kenya in a four-nation one-day cricket tournament starting in Nairobi on Saturday. Zimbabwe, which meets Kenya in the opening match, has called up three members of its development programme, including 20-year-old student David […]

LEHLO “Hands of Stone” Ledwaba makes the first defence of his IBF junior featherweight world title on Saturday night in San Diego. Ledwaba was to have defended his title last month at the Carousel, but the fight fell through when his opponent Adrian Kaspari withdrew from the bout for medical reasons. An added bonus is […]

THE All Blacks leave New Zealand Thursday for the Rugby World Cup in Britain injury-free and in form after a tense final work out. The squad was put through sprint work and a robust game of touch and although several players left early, medical staff said there were no significant problems. Flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens, whose […]