Yearly Archives: 1999

PARLIAMENT last week approved legislation which will allow the country’s equities, bond and futures exchanges to merge. The National Assembly unanimously approved the Financial Markets Control Amendment Bill, which must now go before the National Council of Provinces for concurrence before it can be signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange […]

FIVE people have reportedly died from haemorrhagic fever, rumoured to be the deadly Marburg virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August. British Airways Travel Clinics medical director, Dr Andrew Jamieson said the re-emergence of haemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and ebola in the DRC does not come as a surprise. One man died […]

EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has announced that a new school calendar affecting all nine provinces, will come into effect next year. The move is an attempt to reduce deaths on the country’s roads during peak holiday seasons. The provinces have been divided into three groups to reduce traffic densities and improve national traffic flow during […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has been reinstated by Amazulu on Tuesday after a three-day suspension. Barker was suspended after allegedly making disparaging remarks about the AmaZulu players. He also failed to turn up for a training session last week. Barker faced a disciplinary hearing in Durban on Tuesday for bringing the club in […]

SOFT drinks giant Coca-Cola has bought the soft drinks business of Cadbury-Schweppes in South Africa for R1,5-billion. The sale includes the operations of Cadbury-Schweppes in Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. It is still subject to the approval of shareholders in the company. But Peter Bester, the chairman of Cadbury-Schweppes South Africa said Cadbury-Schweppes plc, which […]

NIGERIAN striker Ade Akinbiyi completed his 3,5 million transfer from Bristol City to English first division side Wolverhampton Wanderers. Akinbiyi replaces Robbie Keane at Wolves following his transfer to Premiership side Coventry. Akinbiyi was a prolific striker for City, scoring 19 league goals last season despite the club being relegated from division one.

AMBULANCE drivers at a rural Northern Province hospital are refusing to work after hours and at weekends because they have not been paid overtime for the past two months. Provincial health department spokesman, Tsepo Moshima, said on Wednesday that electricians, plumbers and boilermakers at CN Phatudi Hospital near Tzaneen had also refused to work overtime […]

BOTSWANA’s five-day-old state of emergency, declared to enable President Festus Mogae to recall parliament, was lifted on Tuesday. Mogae declared the emergency last Thursday to enable his 44-member parliament to meet to amend the Electoral Act so that around 67000 registered voters can be included on the official voters’ roll. General elections are on October […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki was on Monday to tired to leave his aircraft to meet Kenyan Minister of State in the office of President Julius Sunkuli, when it landed at Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobi. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana left the aircraft to explain that Mbeki was asleep, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. Mbeki, […]

THE fixtures involving the South African under-23 national team in the All-Africa Games are: Thursday, Sept 9: 3pm, South Africa v Algeria (Orlando Stadium); 3pm, Uganda v Mali (Rand Stadium). Friday, Sept 10: 12.00: Zambia v Cote d’Ivoire (Orlando); 12.00: Mauritius v Cameroon (Rand). Saturday, Sept 11: 3pm, South Africa v Mali (Orlando); 3pm, Algeria […]