Yearly Archives: 1999

A SERIES of strikes are being planned in Cameroon by taxi drivers to protest a rise of almost 7% in the price of fuel. The price of a litre of petrol has gone up by 35 CFA francs, from 390 CFA francs to 425 CFA francs. At the same time, the price of diesel has […]

THE Mpumalanga health department has bought more than 900000 female condoms — but it wants to know what women think of them before they supply any more. Health liaison officer in the HIV/AIDS section, Thandazo Mdluli, said the condoms, expected this month, are part of a pilot project to determine women’s feelings about using the […]

ELLIS MNYANDU, Pretoria | Tuesday 8.00pm PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday there is no way his administration could accede to public service union demands for higher pay as there are other pressing issues in need of government funding. Mbeki said his government’s focus is on the country’s reconstruction. ”Nobody is saying anything about national […]

ANGOLAN officials have banned the managing editor of an independent weekly, William Tonet, from leaving the country, after he was interrogated several times, sources at his paper said on Monday. Tonet, director of Folha Oito, was notified of the ban by emigration authorities on Saturday, after being questioned by criminal investigators about alleged defamation and […]

THE Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles will compete in the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship for the first time next year. Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe took part this year and Angola host Namibia on September 26 in the first leg of the final. Zambia […]

SPRINGBOK lock Selborne Boome will not play in the World Cup. Boome suffered an injury to his thumb in the warm-up match against an Eastern Province XV in Port Elizabeth on Sunday. Subsequent tests revealed that Boome had fractured a bone in his thumb, and that the injury is serious enough to leave him out […]

FORMER Springbok lock Johan Ackerman has been ruled out of the Bankfin Currie Cup rugby final after sustaining a neck injury at the Golden Lions’ training session on Tuesday. Ackerman twisted his neck while practising lineouts and a subsequent scan revealed he had damaged ligaments. It has been an unlucky season for Ackerman, who returned […]

Group 1, First round at Orlando Stadium South Africa (0) 2 (Steve Lekoelea 68, Siyabonga Nomvete 77) Algeria 0) 0; At Rand Stadium: Uganda (0) 2 (Morley Byekwaso 48, Willy Kyambadde 53) Mali (0) 0 Second round At Orlando Stadium South Africa (1) 4 (Nomvete 66, 76, Hareaipha Marumo 30, Patrick Mbuthu 90) Mali (1) […]

THE National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA’s (Naamsa) August sales figures issued last week show that the new vehicle market has finally turned. The figures depict the highest monthly sales recorded for 1999 with total new vehicle sales for August amounting to 27398 units. Compared to August last year, the overall market showed an […]