Yearly Archives: 1999

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 […]

MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.30pm. STEVE ELWORTHY made his third catch of a bouncy delivery by Hansie Cronje, sending Keith Semple back to the pavilion, and a simple runout bagged Rawl Lewis. Cronje took his time in touching the ball to the wicket after quick fielding by Nicky Boje and miscommunication between the batsmen […]

SUPERMARKET giant Pick ‘n Pay has pulled out a joint venture with oil group Shell to set up stores at service stations in the Philippines, the company announced Tuesday.Managing Director Sean Summers said that following the completion of a due diligence survey, which constituted the first phase of the agreement, it became clear that certain […]

THE Cape Town Metropolitan Council has set aside R50000 to support the World Offshore Powerboat championships, due to be held in Table Bay from February 17 to 21. In a statement on Monday, the council said allocation of the funds is in line with its policy to support and facilitate tourism growth and job creation […]