No image available
/ 14 January 1999
President Nelson Mandela is expected to discuss the Angolan war and whether Southern African Development Conference troops may be sent.
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
CNN HAS implemented a poll on whether South Africa ought to implement racial quotas for teams competing in the Currie Cup. They outline a couple of sides of the issue in their piece, and the results are unambiguously against any kind of quota. See the poll, and vote at: CNN and view the results at: […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
THE International Olympics Committee bribery scandal in Salt Lake City has penetrated Swaziland, where Olympic Committee president David Sibandze has been notified that he is suspected of having accepted payments for favours in the United States. Several IOC members allegedly received bribes from Salt Lake City Olympic bid officials, hoping to secure votes for the […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
TWO Italian Roman Catholic missionaries who were abducted recently in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have been freed, the missionary news agency Misna reported here on Wednesday.They have been taken to a site near Freetown’s airport on Wednesday.Maurizio Boa and Giuliano Pini, who belong to the Giuseppini del Murialdo order, were abducted on Sunday. A third […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
UNSEASONABLY good rains have filled almost all Northern Province’s dams to capacity and could spark a lucrative agricultural boom in the region. Water affairs officials said on Thursday that heavy rains over the past three months have filled the important Ebenerzer, Klaserie and Magoebaskloof dams to 100% capacity while all others in the province are […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
NAMIBIA has reduced the number of its troops deployed in the north-eastern Caprivi region against a secessionist group and the area is calm, Home Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo said on Wednesday. The minister denied claims by Caprivi residents who have fled to Botswana that they are being harassed by police Special Field Forces bidding to […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
SUDAN has opted to use the unified European currency, the euro, in its commercial transations as an alternative to the United States dollar. The Bank of Sudan said in a circular to various banks of the country, that “we are going to concentrate in the coming period on conducting commercial transactions in the euro as […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
VETERAN West Indies Sir Vivian Richards cricketer is ready to help the beleaguered West Indies team who are trailing 4-0 in their five-Test series in South Africa. Sir Vivian, who retired from Test cricket in 1991 and never lost a series as captain, said on Tuesday: “If I can help in whatever department, I will […]
No image available
/ 14 January 1999
A KENYAN court Wednesday sentenced three foreigners to three months in prison each for smoking and causing a disturbance aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Lagos to Nairobi. Aboubakar Omar Hussein and Ramadhan Faiz Abeid of Tanzania and Nalillakaren Appu of India were charged with committing the offences on Tuesday aboard Kenya Airways flight KQ-433. […]
No image available
/ 13 January 1999
A SECOND suspect faced murder charges in Soweto’s Protea Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with last week’s ambush of a Soweto police van and subsequent mass escape of awaiting trial prisoners. Sowetan Lawrence Dube (22) was charged with the murder of Sergeant Christopher Sithebe and Sergeant Elias Matima Senwamadi in a bloody ambush last […]