Yearly Archives: 1999

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 […]

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 […]

THE European Union and South Africa will sign a long-awaited free trade agreement on October 11 and the bulk of its provisions will be implemented from January 2000, the Financial Times reported on Friday. President Thabo Mbeki and officials from all EU member countries will sign the deal in South Africa, said the report, which […]

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, […]

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 […]

NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Monday 3.25pm SOUTH Africa should take quick advantage of opportunities offered by its free trade agreement with the European Union, or face losing out to nations queuing to join the 15-nation bloc, according to a senior EU bureaucrat. Philip Lowe, director-general for development with the European Commission, told a conference in […]

FOREST HILL High School principal Edward Legg, who was almost killed in a hijacking a month ago, died of a suspected heart attack on Wednesday as he was identifying his alleged assailants at a parade. Gauteng police spokesman Inspector Mark Reynolds confirmed Legg’s death. He said a post mortem will be held to determine the […]

TEN bodies have been found near the wreckage of a light aircraft carrying United States citizens which crashed over northern Tanzania, The twin-engined plane went down ON Wednesday. Two people remain unaccounted for, according to the sources. The US passengers comprise six men and four women, the US embassy in Nairobi said, adding that officials […]

ELECTRICITY utility Eskom is gearing itself up to start paying tax as early as January 2000 in terms of new legislation covering its operations. Business Day reports that Eskom CE Allen Morgan has indicated that the utility will be affected by tough economic conditions and market volatility in the year to end-December — predicting a […]

FED up with the continual noise of hooting taxis, angry residents in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, have submitted a petition to the local council, begging them to put an end to the din. Alexandra’s People Against Noise Pollution spokespersohn, Hope McPherson, says residents are at their wits’ end, but most are too afraid to complain. […]