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/ 23 February 1999
THE national soccer teams of Gabon and Burkina Faso drew 1-1 in a friendly played on Saturday at the Omar Bongo sports stadium in Libreville. The two teams, preparing for the next round of the qualification matches of the African Cup of Nations 2000 finals, played their first leg in Ouagadougou in January where the […]
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/ 23 February 1999
A MEMBER of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs was granted bail in the Oudtshoorn Magistrate Court on Monday. Yacoob Jacobs and four other Pagad accused face charges with car theft and illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and two detonators in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Parliament. They were arrested en route […]
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/ 23 February 1999
ANGLO American Platinum Corporation on Monday announced an increase in headline earnings of R291,1-million or 70,3% to R705,2-million for the six months to the end of December. This comes after headline earnings of R414,1-million for the same period last year. Dividends per share rose by 69,6% to 195 cents per share.
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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, […]
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/ 23 February 1999
GOVERNMENT on Monday began a drive to identify potential partners or investors for a stake in state-owned South African Airways, which is due for partial privatisation this year. “The pre-marketing exercise has started and it involves visiting whichever investors [the government] think would like to be strategic equity partners for SAA,” Errol Frankel from transaction […]
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/ 23 February 1999
EIGHT small Mozambican opposition parties at the weekend announced they are to form a united front, the Mozambican Opposition Union to battle the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo). UMO leader Wehia Ripua said his group would back a single presidential candidate and a single parliamentary list. Ripua came third in the presidential race after Afonso […]
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/ 23 February 1999
UNBEATEN in Zimbabwe, England A leave for South Africa on Monday on the second stage of their winter tour. England completed a clean 3-0 sweep in the one-day international series against their Zimbabwe following a two-wicket victory in Harare on Saturday. England A won with just five balls to spare to make it 3-0 in […]
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/ 22 February 1999
VETERAN spinner Pat Symcox was roasted by the New Zealand press for delivering a ball which meant the Black Caps would win Saturday’s third limited-overs match and deny Nathan Astle his century. Symcox bowled a leg-side wide which went to the boundary when New Zealand needed a six to win and Astle was on 95. […]
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/ 22 February 1999
IN a move that will make it the largest individual financial planning business in the country, Alexander Forbes on Thursday said it had acquired the Fincorp business from Brait. A team of 19 people from Fincorp, headed by Vernon Cresswell, will join Alexander Forbes with effect from January 1. The expanded Alexander Forbes financial planning […]