Yearly Archives: 1999

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. Tradition suggests South Africa will be strong challengers at the All-Africa Games football tournament with five of the previous six hosts reaching the final. Congo, Nigeria and Algeria won the first three championships and Kenya and Zimbabwe were beaten by Egypt, who flopped at home in 1991 when Cameroon […]

THE Democratic Party has won another municipal by-election in the North West Province in the rural town of Fochville. The DP polled 211 of the 308 votes, 68,5% of the vote, cast, and follows a DP victory in a by-elected in Stilfontein in August. “It shows our support-base is growing in those areas that previously […]

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.00pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange slipped further on Wednesday as international markets turned sour after Wall Street came back from its Labour Day holiday on a bear run. Hardest hit on the JSE was the financial index which lost 2,36% on the day The Johannesburg bourse’s banks […]

RANDPARK golf course will host the US$1million Mercedes-Benz/Vodacom South African Open from January 20-23 next year. The Open will be held in East London in 2001, Durban in 2002, Cape Town in 2003 and back to Gauteng in 2004. Defending champion David Frost will head the Randpark field, and South African ace Ernie Els and […]

OF a total of 51 destinations surveyed by the influential British Consumer’s Association – South Africa has been rated 22nd according to the number of sicknesses reported. This places South Africa among many first world countries when it comes the amount of travel related illnesses reported by tourists when they return home. Approximately 16% of […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday received a transcript of the original judgment in his 1961 treason trial.

FORMER national cricketer and convicted rapist Makhaya Ntini was on Wednesday pulled out of Border’s friendly cricket match against Eastern Province to be played in East London at the weekend. Ntini was on Tuesday included in the team, but public outcry saw the Border Cricket Board release a statement withdrawing Ntini “from all cricket matches […]

SKIPPER NATIONAL swimming team skipper, Brendon Dedekind, has been named South Africa’s captain at the All Africa Games that gets underway in Johannesburg this week. Dedekind, who won the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Pan Pacific Games in Sydney, said the announcement at a gala dinner at Esselen Park on Tuesday night has come […]

Former South African president Nelson Mandela met former German chancellor Helmut Kohl in Berlin on Thursday.

Former president Nelson Mandela left South Africa on Wednesday for a visit to Germany, Tunisia, Libya and the United States.