GOVERNMENT forces in Angola are claiming on Tuesday to have retaken from Unita rebels a strategically important town of Chongoroi some 500km south-east of Luanda. The town is situated on a road linking the industrial and agricultural province of Huila with the coastal town of Benguela. The army gave no details of casualties. Since November, […]
DRAW for second qualifying round of 1999 All-Africa Games: Zone 4: Central African Republic or Gabon v Democratic Republic of Congo; Rwanda v Cameroon. Zone 5: Uganda v Kenya; Eritrea v Egypt. Zone 6: Zimbabwe v Angola; Lesotho v Zambia. First leg: April 2-4, second: April 16-18.
A NATIONAL toll-free helpline was launched in Cape Town on Tuesday in an effort to curb abuse and neglect of older people. The Halt Elder Abuse Line (Heal) will be accessible nationally and anyone who want to report or discuss any form of abuse of elderly people. Heal was initially launched as a pilot scheme […]
RODGER JARDINE, Director-General of the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology has been appointed CEO of Kagiso Media with effect from June 1, 1999. Jardine quit his post as director-general in November 1998 but later agreed to stay on until the end of May so that a successor could be found. At the time […]
AUCKLAND Blues lock Glenn Taylor and Queensland Reds flanker Mark Murray will sit out the next three weeks of the Super 12 rugby union series after being suspended by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union on Monday. Taylor was suspended for trampling Queensland half-back Sam Cordingley in a ruck when the two teams clashed in […]
A MAN was shot dead when his faith in a bullet-proof charm proved unfounded in the east Nigeria town of Ohafia, a Nigerian paper reported on Monday. The unindentified man boasted to his neighbours that he would not be harmed if fired at after wearing the charm. The man asked a relative to shoot him […]
ISRAEL’S ambassador to South Africa was caught having an affair with a female officer in Pretoria’s army intelligence service but was not recalled home, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday. The affair between Ambassador Uri Oren and the officer — believed to head a foreign relations unit in the service — was discovered two weeks […]
SOUTH Africa will export maize to other countries in the region despite a projected decline in production this year, a Southern African Development Community official said on Thursday. The official, from SADC’s regional early warning unit, said ealry crop estimates indicate South Africa total 1998 maize crop will amount to 7,69-million tons in 1998, against […]
THE Heath Special Investigations Unit is widening its probe of the Reserve Bank’s 1990 R1,4-billion rescue package for the now-defunct Bankorp group to include tobacco giant Rembrandt and insurance conglomerate Sanlam — both major shareholders in Basa banking group, which is already under scrutiny over the lifeboat deal. The Sunday Independent reports that the lifeboat […]
UNITED States construction firm firm John Deere Construction and Engineering Company said on Thursday it plans to take a stake in Bell Equipment and get exclusive rights to distribute the South African engineering company’s articulated dump trucks in the Americas. The deal will see Deere inject about R180-million in equity into Bell in exchange for […]