Yearly Archives: 1999

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. WORLD record holder Penny Heyns predictably won her 100 metres breaststroke final at the All Africa Games on Wednesday, but was more pleased at maintaining her consistency despite being in her taper. Heyns won the event in a time of 1:07.58 seconds. It was not a match of her […]

ITALY has suspended a $22-million aid programme for Zimbabwe because of a lack of transparency in the awarding of tenders, the Italian embassy told the state news agency Ziana on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, every suggestion and warning has been ignored and therefore, in observance of its political and legal responsibilities concerning the possible waste of public […]

The three suspected murderers of Forest Hill High School principal Edward Legg appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Themba Skosana, (23) Vusi Nyembe, (24) and Colin Nhlapo, (23) all from Soweto, appeared shocked when prosecutor Andre de Jager placed on record that they are now charged with murder as well as robbery with […]

SOUTH Africa’s Dewald Laubscher won gold in the All Africa Games men’s individual all-round gymnastics competition at Wits University on Monday. Algerian Sid Ali Ferdjani won silver and Raouf Abdelkarim of Egypt took the bronze.

ORGANISERS KAIZER Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral is refusing to release his players for the national Under-23 team. That’s after the All Africa Games organisers refused to release three of its players, Siyabonga Nomvete, Jabu Pule and Patrick Mbutho, possibly resulting in the Amakhosi’s early exit from the Rothmans Cup. Ertugral insists it’s unheard of anywhere […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30am. WORLD indoor 800m champion, Johan Botha, almost ruined a near perfect evening for South Africa on the first night of the athletics events at the 7th All Africa Games on Tuesday. As the country took an early lead with four gold medals, two silvers and a bronze, Botha nearly […]

THE South African national soccer team trained with just 10 men at Athlone Stadium on Tuesday with a number of overseas-based players still to arrive for their Afro-Asian Cup match against Saudi Arabia at Newlands on Saturday. Of the overseas contingent, only Mark Fish, new cap Ivan McKinley and Eric Tinkler have arrived in South […]

THE unofficial medals table of the fifth day of the All Africa Games in Johannesburg. (Under headings gold, silver, bronze, total): Nigeria 29 8 13 50 Egypt 27 33 19 79 South Africa 26 21 13 60 Tunisia 11 11 12 34 Algeria 7 11 13 31 Cameroon 2 6 15 23 Zimbabwe 1 4 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.15pm.. THE government will go ahead with its controversial multi-billion rands arms-for-investment procurement package, Defence Minister Patrick Lekota said on Wednesday. Lekota repeated that there was no basis for the allegations that ANC MPs had received kickbacks from rival bidders aimed at influencing the arms acquisition process. He was reacting […]