Yearly Archives: 1999

FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to […]

ROSE-MARIE BRUBALLA, Freetown | Wednesday 8.00pm. THE West African intervention force Ecomog on Wednesday “liberated” an area east of Freetown considered to be the last bastion of the rebels who stormed the Sierra Leonean capital a fortnight ago, a spokesperson said. In a simultaneous offensive in the north-west of the West African country, Ecomog is […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday set out the rules governing the February 27 election to choose Nigeria’s first civilian president in more than 15 yearsr. Thenext president of Africa’s most populous country must be a Nigerian citizen, aged 40 or over, and educated to at least School Certificate level, under rules announced on […]

MOZAMBICAN riot police were called in to rescue 30 senior Concor site managers after they were taken hostage by 400 striking construction workers at the R7,5-billion MOZAL aluminum smelter near Maputo city on Tuesday, African Eye News Service reports. The demonstrators held the group of Mozambican and South African managers hostage for seven hours after […]

THE 944 families illegally living in the Dukuduku State Forest near the protected St Lucia estuary in northern KwaZulu-Natal have agreed to resettle on alternative land provided by the government. Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Kader Asmal said on Tuesday that the police and the army have been requested to assist with resettling the community. […]

CAPTAIN Bennie Lategan, who led the investigation by Western Cape police into the pipe-bomb explosions at the Cape Town Waterfront, was buried on Tuesday in Belville, Cape Town. Lategan was shot 11 times while waiting at a Cape Flats intersection last Thursday. Among those attending the funeral were Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel, MEC for […]

THE Insider Trading Act, which provides for both civil and criminal prosecutions for insider trading offences on the financial markets, kicked in at the weekend. The Act assigns control over insider trading to the Financial Services Board which will be required to publish rules governing disclosure to the authorities as well as how to deal […]

BLACK empowerment firm African Harvest, in conjunction with United States-based Risa Investment Advisers, announced on Monday a scheme to offer US investors opportunities to invest in selected businesses in South Africa. The scheme will offer investors securities or open-ended equity mutual funds as a vehicle to invest in South African firms. African Harvest CEO Leon […]

SEVEN men were killed and one was seriously wounded when an armed gang stormed into a private home in the Vaal Triangle township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, police said on Tuesday. Police arrested four men and confiscated three pistols soon after the massacre at midnight on Monday. “The four entered the house and apparently […]

IN the latest violent storm to lash the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, at least 21 people were killed on Monday, hundreds injured and some 50 homes flattened in the Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu area, according to Mount Ayliff police station commander Nxibe Zweladinga. At least three of the injured are reported to be […]