Yearly Archives: 1999

THE Mauritius government has decided to privatise the job of collecting and putting down stray dogs. It claims the Mauritius Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals can no longer do the job. Stray dogs are a serious problem in Mauritius. The animals are all over the place, including important public places like the […]

THE Heath Special Investigative Unit on Friday started recovering money and assets belonging to the Northern Province. Provincial head of investigations for Heath, Frank Vos, said that one priority is to probe an estimated 15000 ghost workers in several departments, in an attempt to recover more than R2-million paid out to non-existent staff in March […]

UNIDENTIFIED attackers shot dead four men in KwaMashu, north Durban, police said on Saturday, as an anti-crime operation started in the gang-infested township. Two other men were wounded in the attack just before midnight on Friday in a men’s hostel. The motive for the attack was not known. About 19 people have been killed since […]

THE government on Saturday urged for an end to the violence in East Timor and for the overwhelming vote for independence from Jakarta to be respected. “The South African government calls on all the people of East Timor to respect and abide by the outcome of the referendum and to act with utmost restraint,” a […]

ANGOLAN Football Association chairman Armando Machado has told a Luanda magazine that he wants to challenge Issa Hayatou of Cameroon for the African Football Confederation (CAF) presidency. Former international athlete Hayatou has ruled African football since 1988 and will be bidding for a fourth four-year term during a CAF meeting in Accra before the African […]

SHARON HAMMOND, Witbank | Sunday 7.00pm OUTRAGED Mpumalanga motorists are dragging the operators of the R2-billion Maputo Toll Road to the Competitions Board and Constitutional Court in a desperate attempt to shut all three tollgates road down. The N4 Road Users Association has lodged a complaint with the Competitions Board alleging that toll road operator, […]

BRENDA FASSIE and Nigerian star Femi Kuti were late on Saturday night pronounced Africa’s best female and best male performers at the 1999 Kora All Africa Music Awards at Sun City, northwest of Johannesburg. The artists, and a spread of others from across the continent, received their awards at a glittering ceremony attended by about […]

NINE blind and visually impaired young people from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Britain reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, on Thursday. The expedition was organised by Charity Sight Savers International, with support from British Airways, to show the world the scope of blind people’s capabilities and raise vital funds for combating cataracts in […]

THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) has rejected demands by ASEC of Cote d’Ivoire and Esperance of Tunisia that they compete in the first world club championships. Brazil will host the event from January 5-14 and ASEC believe they should represent Africa as holders of the African Champions League title. Esperance base their case on […]

PHILIP MOROBI and JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 5.00pm MPUMALANGA has quietly reappointed its disgraced finance director, Shadrack Mashele, despite hounding him out of government last year for his role in a R51-million fraud scam. Mashele allegedly helped his brother’s company, Senoko Enterprises, claim over R16-million from Mpumalanga’s education department for non-existent services. The scam […]