Yearly Archives: 1999

THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) president, Issah Hayatou, has agreed to meet a Zimbabwean football delegation in Ghana next month to discuss Zimbabwe’s bid to win back the African Nations Cup 2000 tournament. The Herald newspaper reported on Friday that the meeting will be held on March 6 in Accra, just four days before […]

THE South African under-17’s football team will face their Zimbabwean counterparts in a second round African Junior Championship qualifier at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Sunday. A good win will be a big boost for the players’ championship hopes in this important outing. A good crowd is expected at Orlando for the 3pm match that […]

NEW Zealand’s cricketers may be a little distracted when they play South Africa on Saturday because an extra game has been slotted into their match schedule for Sunday. A full strength Kiwi side is to play Wadsworth Invitation XI — mainly 10 to 12-year-olds New Zealanders — who won the right to play the country’s […]

ENGLAND captain Lawrence Dallaglio said on Thursday that he would not be happy having South African World Cup flyhalf Joel Stransky playing for England. Stransky has been in superb form for his English club Leicester and there has been speculation that he could qualify to play for England in this year’s World Cup. Coach Clive […]

ZIMBABWE’S Mark McNulty threw away a first-round lead at the Stenham Royal Swazi Sun Open in Mbabane on Thursday with a rare triple bogey on the course’s third easiest hole. McNulty finished on 68, three strokes behind leaders Chris Davison, Brenden Pappas and Justin Hobday. Wimpie Botha, Andre Cruse, Ashley Roestoff, Ian Kennedy AND American […]

Marianne Merten More than 200 people have heeded a Western Cape African National Congress call for members of the public to join the police reservists. Bright yellow posters calling for volunteers went up throughout Cape Town recently after the party pledged to National Commissioner George Fivaz that it would recruit 500 new volunteers by April […]

Emeka Nwandiko Black employees at Gauteng’s Department of Finance have rallied around a white colleague who was dismissed for making a racist remark, saying her sacking was “apartheid in reverse”. Bets Enslin was dismissed last Friday after she was brought before a disciplinary tribunal for an incident last December. It is alleged that Enslin jokingly […]

Mungo Soggot The company accused of paying a R1-million bribe for a Gauteng gambling licence, Tsogo Sun, is fighting a court order instructing the Mpumalanga gambling board to hand over tapes of deliberations which gave Tsogo a licence in Witbank. In a judgment that raises questions about the gambling booard’s conduct, Judge Brian Southwood ordered […]

market Mail & Guardian reporter The Mail & Guardian’s circulation grew by 6% between the last six months of 1997 and the last six months of 1998, as quality niche publications bucked the trend of declining newspaper circulations throughout the country. According to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the M&G sold an average […]