Yearly Archives: 1999

MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.15pm. THE top of South Africa’s batting order folded dramatically in Tuesday’s One Day International against the West Indies at Newlands in Cape Town, leaving the score at 125/6 after 37 overs. This is the fifth of the seven limited overs games, currently standing at 3-1 to South Africa. If […]

SPRINGBOK and Golden Lions hooker Owen Nkumane has withdrawn from the Cats’ Winfield Super 12 squad after consulting with Cats coach Andre Markgraaff and Lions mentor Laurie Mains. Nkumane has instead elected to play for the Lions in the Vodacom Cup in a bid to improve his fitness and skills which, by his own admission, […]

FLOODS and rockfalls in South Africa’s Northern Province have killed at least five people following torrential rain, police said on Tuesday.Police divers had recovered five bodies by Tuesday afternoon after mud and water swept through villages situated on the slopes of the Drakensberg mountains.Bodies were swept downriver and five have been recovered so far, said […]

POLICE and army rescue teams are still having difficulty tracking a Northern Province man who disappeared when a mini-tornado hit the village of Mahlomelong near Tzaneen on Sunday night. Four villagers, including a three-month-old child, died in the storm when large rocks were dislodged from a nearby mountain and crushed their mud huts. Local police […]

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 […]