Yearly Archives: 1999

THE banking sector loses about R4-billion every year to fraud, a banking official told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. Last year, the industry also lost about R1,1-billion to robbery, Banking Council of South Africa chief executive Bob Tucker told the safety and security committee in a briefing. This was despite a 22% cut in bank […]

SOUTH Africa lost 2-0 to Australia in the World Team Championship played in Cairo. The second-seeded Australians beat the team of Glenn Whittaker and Rodney Durbach, despite Whittaker beating his number-two Australian counterpart Dan Jenson. The South Africans made a good fight of the first two ties, particularly the tie between the number-ones, with Durbach […]

TWO men who allegedly poisoned more than 50 wild animals and birds last month appeared briefly in the Messina Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Simon Mutavhatsindi, (34) and Andries Ndou, (40) were not asked to plead to charges of poisoning animals. Mutavhatsindi and Ndou are being held at Messina police station after they failed to raise […]

THE National Road Agency has put up R21-million to maintain the R555, which will become an alternative to the Middelburg toll plaza in Mpumalanga. This follows complaints from residents at Middelburg and Witbank about the bad state of the road, which runs between them, NRA regional manager Johan Nothnagel said on Wednesday. ”We had to […]

GINWALA AND SONS has been named as Mozambique’s top exporter. The company exported US$3,6-million worth of cottonseed and copra in 1998. The second top exporter is the national textile company, Textafrica, which exported US$3,2-million worth of textiles. The highest rate of export growth over the last two-year period has been achieved by the crabs and […]

Police in Zimbabwe raided a Harare cemetery and arrested 27 suspected car-jackers and thieves who were burying a dead colleague. The police threw a cordon around Granville cemetery, situated on the outskirts of the capital, on Sunday. A gangster who had died in a high-speed car chase by police was being buried. Some of the […]

CRAIG RAY, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.20pm. A WESTERN Province rugby official and a linesman were brutally assaulted at a club rugby match in Athlone on the Western Cape this weekend, it emerged on Tuesday. The incident took place at the match between the Paarl Rangers and Kuilsrivier on Saturday. Linesman Michael Vermeulen was attacked […]

THE Natal Blood Transfusion Service on Tuesday defended its decision to stop collecting blood in areas where HIV prevalence had reached “unacceptable” levels as a move in patients’ interests. “We have taken the precaution of systematically withdrawing our collection clinics from areas where the prevalence of HIV or any other virus transmissible by blood transfusion […]

STAFF at the South African mission in Taipei on Tuesday were shaken but unhurt after a huge earthquake struck Taiwan killing 1123 people and injuring 3500. According to initial reports there were no South African casualties. Christine Engelbrecht, head of administration at the mission, said that although the earthquake’s epicentre was 145 km south of […]