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/ 24 February 1999
AFRICAN youth championship results for the first round held in Ghana: Group A matches held in Accra saw hosts Ghana down Mali 1-0, and Cameroon top Angola also 1-0. Cameroon will face Mali in the Second round, while Ghana will square off against Angola on February 24. Group B matches were held in Kumasi. First-round […]
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/ 24 February 1999
DAMON HILL could quit Formula One at the end of the season if he does not have a successful year with Jordan, his team boss Eddie Jordan said Wednesday. “If he does a good job for us, we’ll want him to stay. If he doesn’t, he’ll want to stop himself,” said Jordan, who has teamed […]
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/ 24 February 1999
EASTERN Cape transport and public works MEC Thobile Mhlahlo was on Tuesday arrested by Umtata High Court Judge Stefaans Visser, for contempt of court. Mhlahlo and his secretary were ordered in November 1998 to explain to the court why 35 former civil servants were not paid voluntary severance packages. Visser said then that the former […]
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/ 24 February 1999
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm. CATS’ coach Andre Markgraaff named his Super 12 squad of 22 on Tuesday, instead of his starting 15 despite warnings from rugby administrators to name the squad 48 hours before the clash with ACT Brumbies on Friday. Rian Oberholzer, chief executive of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu), […]
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/ 24 February 1999
PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma is to meet his South African counterpart Nelson Mandela in Pretoria on Wednesday. Neither the Namibian State House nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would say what the meeting was about. “We are all in the dark about this day trip,” a foreign affairs official said. However, a well-placed source indicated that […]
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/ 24 February 1999
NELSPRUIT’S council began a R3-million upgrade of rural water treatment plants in surrounding villages on Wednesday after almost two years of complaints about water quality. The cash-strapped council was initially unable to fund the upgrade for rural settlements 40km from the town’s CBD but approved the project earlier this year following a R3-million donation from […]
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/ 24 February 1999
STEVEN SWINDELLS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30am. SYNTHETIC fuel producer Sasol posted a better-than-expected 10,5% rise in half-year earnings as costs fell and output rose, and predicted further growth in 1999. However, lower crude oil prices, and consequently chemical feedstock prices impacted negatively on profits. Profit after tax in the six months ended December 25 rose […]
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/ 24 February 1999
THE Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC) will launch its diesel emissions control campaign on Thursday in an attempt to reduce brown haze pollution. Trucks will be pulled off the road and their exhaust fumes tested on the spot, the CMC says. The council said it intended to solicit the co-operation of trucking companies and other diesel […]
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/ 23 February 1999
A FREAK storm, which swept through Alice in the Eastern Cape on Sunday afternoon, left at least one person dead and three others injured, television news reported on Monday. Over 188 households were destroyed and uprooted trees were strewn in the streets. Villagers said roofs from their houses were lifted by a violent wind and […]
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/ 23 February 1999
ZIMBABWE is planning to build a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline from the Mozambican port of Beira to its National Oil Company depot, a distance of about 800km. The existing Beira-Feruka-Msasa pipeline has a capacity of 1,2-million tons a year, 300000 short of the current national demand, Transport and Energy Minister Enos Chikowore said. According to Chikowore, […]