Yearly Archives: 1999

ERNIE LETS IT SLIP AFTER three good rounds at the Heineken Classic, Ernie Els finished with a disappointing round of 3 over par 75 to slip back into 2nd place. Australian Jarrod Moseley shot a 3 under 69 to get to 14 under and take the title, one ahead of Ernie, Berhard Langer and another […]

UNDER-17 Meridian Cup holders Ireland beat South Africa’s Under-17 squad 2-1 on Thursday at the start of the 1999 Meridian tournament at Athlone stadium in Cape Town. In other matches, Italy and Nigeria drew 1-1 in Bellville and the scheduled meeting between Portugal and Ghana was postponed due to the non-arrival of the Ghanaian team.

South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela made a brief stopover in Nigeria early Sunday on his way home from the World Economic Forum meeting.

MOZAMBIQUE’S navy commander Rear-Admiral Pascoal Jose Nhalungo is in critical condition in a Maputo hospital after a group of unknown gunmen shot him on Wednesday night. The Mozambican’s Defence Force said on Friday that Nhalungo was shot at point blank range in his car in a quiet Maputo suburb. His is in intensive care at […]

FORMER soccer player Hilton Grainger (50) was shot dead in what appears to be a botched hijacking attempt on Thursday morning. Grainger was accosted by three men, described by witnesses as “very well dressed”, in his garage just before 7am. They fired two shots at him before fleeing without taking anything. Grainger’s watch, jewellery and […]

THE Siza Water Company won a 30-year privatisation contract on Friday for water and waste water services provision to the Dolphin Coast — the first contract of its kind. The borough north of Durban includes Ballito, Chaka’s Rock, Salt Rock, Uhlali, Sheffield Beach, as well as the Dolphin Coast municipal area, and has a population […]

THE five victims of a slaughter carried out by Islamist extremists on Friday night in the Algerian town of Bekhaitia were all children aged from five to 14, press reports said on Sunday. Security services had not given any details of the victims or the killings, which took place 200km from Algiers.Press reports said the […]

THE International Panel of Eminent Personalities (IPEP) established by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda left for Kigali on Sunday on its first fact-finding mission after holding its inaugural session in Addis Ababa. The six-member panel under the chairmanship of Ketumile Masire, former president of Botswana, will later […]

GOLD producer Goldfields posted headline earnings of R188-million for the last quarter of 1998, 25% down on the September quarter, it was announced in Johannesburg on Thursday. While gold output remained much the same, Goldfields was affected by a 4% decline in the gold price receipt, the company said. Maiden interim dividend of 50 cents […]

THE chairman of a private Zambian airline David Torkoph who was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) on Tuesday, has reportedly fled the country for Harare. The Zambian newspaper The Post reported on Friday that DEC spokesperson Mukutulu Sinyani, who confirmed that Torkoph was detained, said he was not aware that Torkoph had left […]