Yearly Archives: 1999

WORK on Mpumalanga’s new R536-million legislature complex in Nelspruit was still at a standstill on Wednesday, the third day of a strike by more than 300 labourers. They downed tools after accusing building company Stocks & Stocks of under-paying sub-contractors on the site, were then unable to pay the work force. Stocks & Stocks would […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.20am RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Wednesday warned the country’s current account has slipped into deficit in the second quarter of the year and could remain in the red for the rest of 1999. But South Africa’s first black central bank boss said that foreign investment in the country […]

INVESTMENT bank Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday that it has cut its rating for shares in mining group Anglo American Plc to ”market perform” from ”buy” and advised investors to switch out of the stock and into Rio Tinto Plc. In a research note, Deutsche said Anglo’s shares – which have risen sharply since their […]

FORMER President Nelson Mandela’s wife Graa Machel has declined an invitation by the cash-strapped University of Fort Hare to take up its chancellorship, forcing the postponement by more than a month of a special graduation ceremony that had been planned for next week. Machel was the only candidate selected by Fort Hare to succeed liberation […]

THE Western Cape government has decided to establish a permanent disaster relief fund in the wake of Sunday’s tornado. Social services MEC Peter Marais said on Wednesday that the lack of such a fund is, in itself, a disaster. Meanwhile, several organisations have criticised the provincial government for the reportedly disorganised state of the relief […]

FORMER National Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) unionist, Phillip Dexter, was last week appointed National Economic Development and Labour Council’s (Nedlac) executive director. Dexter is currently executive chair of Union Alliance Holdings and is a non-executive director of Nehawu Investment Company. He was elected an ANC MP in 1994 and served on the labour, […]

THE Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday granted the Eikenhof three the right to have their case reopened. Siphiwe James Bholo, Sipho Samuel Gavin and Boy Titi Ndweni were convicted by Judge DJ Curlewis in the Heidelberg circuit court in 1994. They received death sentences for the murders of Mrs Zandra Mitchley, her […]

SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer was unceremoniously ejected from the US Open on Monday. Coetzer had been seeded sixth. Irina Spirlea of Romania, best known for bumping Venus Williams on a changeover in the 1997 U.S. semifinals, upset Coetzer in straight sets 6-1, 7-5. Spirlea made 31 unforced errors to 28 for Coetzer, but had 10 […]

ALLEGED Capital Park serial killer Samuel Sidyno on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to seven charges of murder. The charges relate to the discovery of six bodies, and the pointing out of a seventh by Sidyno, on Capitol Hill and in the Magaliesberg, in Pretoria in December 1998 and January this […]