Yearly Archives: 1999

THREE veterinary officials in Mpumalanga have contracted Rift Valley fever after doing autopsies on infected animals in the Kruger National Park and adjoining game reserves, the Mpumalanga health department said on Tuesday. Communicable disease control consultant Dr David Durrheim said the rainfall in the province and growth of the mosquito population has caused the outbreak, […]

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. ALBANIA’S exiled king Leka I arrested on charges of hoarding a large arms cache, was on Monday remanded in custody for a further week by a South African court. Magistrate George Andrews said that as Leka had been arrested only on Friday, “the state obviously has not had sufficient […]

POLITICAL parties in Parliament have yet to agree on an amendment to the Constitution that will allow President Nelson Mandela to set a date by proclamation for the general election. The amendment will allow the president to set a poll date before the end of the National Assembly’s sitting on April 30. Opposition parties say […]

HORSE Chestnut’s trainer, Mike de Kock, says the three-year old colt may not run in the Rothman’s July. “He may be handicapped out of it”, says de Kock. This is bad news for betters trying to make a sure, if slim win, since bookmakers are sure to try to cover themselves against the kind of […]

GLOBALSTAR, the global satellite communication group, has completed an earth station worth R150-million in North-West province ahead of the launch of its 48 satellites designed to provide global telecommunication coverage. The firm plans to begin offering services later this year in partnership with Vodacom. The service will be only the second global telecommunications service available […]

GERMAN billionaire Jurgen Harksen, who has fought a running battle to avoid extradition to in Germany, lost his bid to remain in South Africa on Monday and was taken into custody. Harksen faces criminal tax evasion charges in Germany. Cape Town Magistrate Michael Wagner ordered that Harksen be committed to prison pending his extradition. Harksen […]

AN Organisation of African Unity mission to the Comoros islands began consultations in Moroni on Monday aimed at ending the breaking the deadlock over the secessionist movement on Anjouan island. Headed by South Africa, the mission includes representatives from Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and the OAU Secretariat.

UGANDA will on Monday begin the first HIV vaccine trials in Africa, the state-owned Sunday Vision newspaper reports. Ugandan health director general Kihumoro Apuuli said that 40 low-risk volunteers aged between 18 and 40 will be involved in the first two-year phase of the study. The volunteers will be used to test the efficacy of […]

THE bid for SA Druggists by a United States drug firm, Argyll Scientific, has collapsed as local firm Macmed which was connected to the deal has withdrawn from the negotiations. Macmed claims it gave Argyll time to come up with an acceptable proposal but that it failed to do so timeously. Macmed is now likely […]

TWO people were killed and about 10 injured in last week’s crash of an Antonov-26 cargo plane in Angola and the Russian pilots, said to have been drunk, will be tried. Angolan aviation officials said on Tuesday that a pregnant woman was among those killed when the transport plane, owned by the Airangol company, crashed […]