Yearly Archives: 1999

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 […]

SOUTH Africa has in the last four years investigated 132 of its secret service and intelligence agents for misconduct and criminal charges including murder and gold trafficking. Intelligence Minister Joe Nhlanhla said in a written reply presented in parliament on Monday that one National Intelligence Agency member was found guilty of murder Another 10 intelligence […]

THE European Commission has begun preparing economic reform aid for Zimbabwe. That’s after a standby arrangement Harare recently made with the International Monetary Fund, the head of an EU delegation said on Monday. Conditions for the grant include drastic cuts in domestic debt and the interest on it, reduction in the defence budget and acceleration […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will hold bilateral talks with United States President Bill Clinton and French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in New York on Tuesday night, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. Mbeki is on the third day of a five-day visit to New York. He arrived on Sunday and gave his maiden address to the United […]

A MINI-SUMMIT of seven Ecowas countries is due to take place on Thursday in Abuja on the border crisis between Liberia and Guinea. Ecowas officials Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is hosting the meeting to be attended by his counterparts from Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Togo. The summit, a follow up to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 2.15pm THE headline inflation rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 30 years in August leaving analysts baying for an interest rate cut to cheer the ailing economy. According to figures released by Statistics South Africa on Tuesday, the rise in the consumer price index slipped to 3,2% in […]

TWO sisters who allegedly hired a hit-man to kill their mother were granted bail in a Northern Province Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Provincial police spokesman Senior Superintendent Phuti Setati said the women were convinced their 75-year-old mother had used muti to cause the deaths of their father and one brother. They also blamed her for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm. THE South African national under-23’s managed to pull off a gutsy 2-0 win over a neber-say-die Ugandan outfit to claim the bronze medal in the All-Africa Games at the Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday. The South Africans lost 1-0 to Zambia in the semi-finals on Friday, and the bronze will […]

THE South African men’s cyclists made a clean-sweep f proceedings in the 160km road race at the All Africa Games on Sunday. Tiaan Kannemeyer won gold in a time of three hours 50minutes and 42 seconds. Team-mate Malcom Lange, the defending champion, took silver, 2min 52secs behind. Jacques Fullard won the bronze medal, 5min 38 […]