Yearly Archives: 1999

SOUTH African will send a team of two to the 5th World Scrabble Championships. This year’s tournament will be held in the Carlton Crest Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, from 3-7 November 1999. There will be 92 participants from almost 40 countries. The best-of-five final will be held on Sunday November 7, with the game broadcast […]

THE Internet Solution (IS) has sold its dial-up access division, Icon, to Vodacom World Online. The sale is effective from October 1 1999. In a statement sent to Icon subscribers IS claimed that Vodacom World Online is geared specifically for the consumer market, while IS’s key market focus has been and continues to be corporate. […]

EMSIE FERRIERA, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.30pm JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna on Tuesday emerged unbowed from an emergency meeting with President Thabo Mbeki where he was expected to be censured for a tirade against the country’s top judges. The minister on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Constitutional Court, the highest in the land, accusing […]

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 […]

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, […]

PLATINUM giant Impala Platinum (Implats) is well placed to benefit from rising platinum prices and internal cost controls, Implats CEO Steve Kearney said on Tuesday. The firm lifted platinum output 1% to 1,065-million ounces in the 12 months to June, with operating costs rising below the rate of inflation, by 4,3% to R2 471/oz. Costs […]

LAND Bank MD Helena Dolny has been exonerated on allegations corruption, racism and nepotism. The allegations were first made by former Land Bank board chairman Bonile Jack, in a report to the land affairs and agriculture now widely regarded as being motivated by sour grapes. Jack’s accusations were investigated by an independent commission of inquiry, […]

SANLAM reported interim results for the six months to June 30, 1999, on Wednesday, showing a 37% increase in headline earnings. An additional highlight was the turnaround of Sanlam Health. Sanlam’s first interim results as a listed financial services group announced on Wednesday are in line with their expectations, the company said in a statement. […]

South Africa’s intermediary role in brokering a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted Burundi to request similar assistance to end six years of civil war that has claimed more than 250000 lives. Burundi’s president, Pierre Buyoya at the weekend met president Thabo Mbeki to ask Pretoria to play “an active role” in […]