Yearly Archives: 1999

THOUSANDS of mourners attended the politically charged funeral on Saturday of Zulu prince Mcwayizeni Ka Dinizulu, the first member of the Zulu royal family to join the African National Congress. Hundreds of security forces kept watch as the mostly ANC-affiliated mourners swept into Nongoma, the heartland of the rival Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party. Zulu […]

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 […]

PHUMZILE Mathyila, South African amateur boxer, failed to impress the judges at the finals of the All Africa Games, losing on points to Mohamed Kizito of Uganda. The judges scored the bout 15-3, clearly showing that Mathyila, the only SA boxer in the finals of the games, was nowhere near winning. Mathyila, a slightly taller […]

OTIS Ntsimane, a member of the South African All-Africa Games Karate team has tested positive for a banned substance. Ntisame admitted to ingesting two products which contain the stimulant d-norpseudoephedrine. Because the karateka was found guilty of doping at the end of the Games, the SA team management has referred the case to the Karate […]

AJAX Cape Town and African Wanderers had to be content with sharing the spoils after they played to a 1-1 draw in an exciting Premier Soccer League match at King’s Park Soccer Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The half-time score was 0-0. Wanderers took the lead in the 70th minute when defender Abram Lethebe beat […]

AN outbreak of cholera has killed more than 200 people in Borno State, northern Nigeria, in the past month, a top state official said on Monday. As of September 15, 216 people have died of cholera in the remote northern state which borders the republics of Niger and Chad, state government spokesman Abba Jato said. […]

THE Eastern Cape government’s first high profile sexual harassment case fizzled into a R5000 fine in the Zwelitsha regional court on Friday after Department of Housing and Local Government deputy permanent secretary Ngwadi Mzamo’s conviction for indecently assaulting his former secretary in 1997. Mzamo (33) called married mother Stephanie Kallides (45) into his office where […]

GOLD medal favourite Shaun Bownes were left with nothing to show for his efforts on Wednesday when he was knocked out of contention. Bownes, the 110m hurdles favourite, pulled out of the race, which had been false-started twice, thinking that the third start was also illegal.