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/ 11 February 1999
FUGITIVE German billionaire Jurgen Harksen collapsed at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday after being refused bail. Harksen was admitted to hospital under police guard with a suspected heart attack. Cape Town Magistrate Mike Wagener, who earlier this week ordered Harksen’s extradition to Germany on tax evasion charges, on Wednesday refused him bail and […]
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/ 11 February 1999
ZIMBABWE’S short-term money market rates spiked higher on Wednesday in their first large reaction to the central bank’s weekend rates hike. However, localised student unrest at the university campus on Wednesday had no effect on trade, dealers said. The Reserve Bank lifted its benchmark bank rate on Saturday by 2,5 percentage points to 45% and, […]
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/ 11 February 1999
AFRICA’S two Waynes are out of the Dubai Open tennis championship. Wayne Ferreira was sent home on Tuesday by Francisco Clavet of Spain, losing 13-11 in a third set tiebreaker. The South African was beaten 3-6 6-2 7-6 by the world number 29 on the second day of the $1-million tournament. Zimbabwe’s Wayne Black was […]
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/ 11 February 1999
POLICE have arrested four members of a suspected murder gang which terrified Northern Province residents at a popular meeting place for amorous couples 20km south of Pietersburg. The lovers’ lane gang is believed to have shot and killed three men and a woman during their six-week reign of terror at Lebowakgomo. A second woman was […]
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/ 11 February 1999
THE Camel White Water Challenge will be held in South Africa this year and not in Uganda, it was announced on Wednesday. The Ugandan government refused permission over concerns that the event’s publicity would create a lobby against a proposed dam development, organiser Tony Hansen said. Special permission was granted by the National Parks Board […]
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/ 11 February 1999
A COALITION of eight opposition parties in Niger has taken the lead in weekend municipal elections, according to preliminary and partial results released in the capital Niamey on Thursday by the National Independent Electoral Commission (Ceni). The coalition, which has fared better in Niger’s main cities, has captured 318 municipal seats out out 570 districts, […]
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/ 11 February 1999
BUSINESSMEN in Lesotho are outarged at South Africa’s sudden suspension of special travel concessions allowing multiple entry for business purposes without having to stand in long queues at border post. South African home affairs suspended the six-month concessions, granted to people who travel regularly for business or study, without warning. Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and […]
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/ 11 February 1999
JUSTIN Hobday set a new course record by shooting a 61 (-11) in the first round of the South African Masters on Thursday at the Oppenheimer Park Golf Course in Welkom, Free State.
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/ 11 February 1999
FORMER Rwandan information minister Eliezer Niyitegeka, wanted by the United Nations’ war crimes tribunal for complicity in the 1994 genocide, has been arrested in Kenya. Niyitegeka, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda since July 1996, was information minister under the interim government led by Jean Kambanda, who himself pleaded guilty to genocide and […]
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/ 11 February 1999
SOUTH African wool prices climbed sharply at this week’s auction on the back of a weaker rand and a relatively small offering, Cape Wools said on Wednesday. The Cape Wools’ market indicator gained 3% on last week to R17,93/kg (clean). The rand weakened against the Australian dollar making South African wool cheaper than Australian wool.