Yearly Archives: 1999

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by a United States drug firm, Argyll Scientific, has collapsed as local firm Macmed which was connected to the deal has withdrawn from the negotiations.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 […]

NIGERIA’s military government set up a 16-man committee on Monday to organise the formal arrangements for hand-over of power to a civilian ruler, a top official said. Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe, the chief of general staff and number two man in the Nigerian regime, said the committee — part military and part civilian — will […]

HAMILTON Airship Company, which plans to build the world’s largest airship, is desperately seeking bridging finance. The firm needs funds following the return of R93-million raised in a pre-listing public and private offer of shares. Many small investors who bought shares in the company remain shareholders and have displayed considerable patience with the firm. The […]

THE new chief of staff of the Indian navy, Admiral Sushil Kumar, will visit South Africa for a week from Monday. Hiss visit follows one to India last October by South African Navy chief Vice-Admiral Robert Simpson-Anderson. “The visit serves to strengthen the ties of friendship and good co- operation between the South African and […]