Yearly Archives: 1999

THE N1 highway south of Warmbaths in Northern Province was closed on Wednesday morning after 800 bags of highly explosive, powdered Xanthnate fell on to the road. Police spokesperson Captain Blackie Swart said waste disposal experts were called into remove the powder before it rained. People within a one-kilometre radius were evacuated. The powder — […]

MPUMALANGA highway patrol has crashed and written off one of ten new hi-tech patrol vehicles — only 48 hours after receiving them. The patrol vehicles, which cost the province R1,2-million, are being punted as the most technologically advanced in the country with radar, computer tracking systems and surveillance cameras. The equipment however failed to prevent […]

SOUTH African Breweries announced to retailers on Monday that it is to increase the price of its wholesale beer by up to 10%. The rise could see the consumer paying considerably more for a beer after accounting for VAT and varying mark-ups. According to SAB the price of cans — both 340ml and long-toms — […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 9.30pm. MAMELODI Sundowns improved their Castle Premier League chances when they wiped out Vaal Professionals 7-1 at the Odi stadium on Wednesday evening. Four of the goals were scored off the boot of Sundowns captain Daniel Mudau, in the 20th, 24th, 27th and 33rd minutes. Downs’ other goals came from […]

REBEL soldiers loyal to General Ansumane Mane on Tuesday retreated north of Guinea-Bissau’s capital as loyalist troops and allies from Senegal and Guinea advanced, informed sources said here.Heavy fighting with artillery and small-arms moved north towards the airport of Bissau, and the sources said shelling no longer threatened the city center.Hospital and other sources earlier […]

MPUMALANGA officially launched its new R1,2-million highway patrol on Monday with 10 of the most advanced law-enforcement vehicles in the country. The ten high-speed patrol vehicles can detect the speed of other drivers without officers having to lay speed traps or cameras. Provincial Transport MEC, Jackson Mthembu, said at the launch that the initiative is […]

DIVERSIFIED media conglomerate Primedia is though to be bidding for a controlling interest in Cape-based radio KFM. This comes after both Primedia and KFM shareholder Brimstone Investment Corporation issued separate cautionary notices. Meanwhile one of Primedia’s holdings, CapeTalk, announced at the weekend that it has recorded an operating profit after only 15 months of operation. […]

NIGERIA’S military rulers have agreed to a new constitution, the regime’s number two, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe, told newspapers on Tuesday. Akhigbe, Chief of General Staff, told reporters in Abuja after a meeting of the country’s top military body, the Provisional Ruling Council, that it has agreed to a constitution similar to that of 1979.The […]

A 1000km Mediterranean highway linking Africa and Asia will be inaugurated in June, Egyptian Reconstruction Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Soleiman said on Monday. “The highway will skirt the Mediterranean Sea, linking the north-eastern border town of Rafah and Sallum in the north-west,” Soleiman told the Egyptian news agency Mena. Rafah is Egypt’s gate to Asia through […]

POLICE on Monday morning confirmed that 34 people were killed in a horror bus crash on Sunday night in the Free State. The bus was en route to Johannesburg from Kokstad in KwaZulu-Natal on the N3 highway between Villiers and Warden in the Free State when a tire burst around 7.30pm. The bus lost control […]