Yearly Archives: 2000

INDIA made two changes to the team which lost the Bombay Test by four wickets against South Africa for the second and final Test of the series at Bangalore starting next Thursday. Former captain Mohammad Azharuddin and left-handed opening batsman Sadagopan Ramesh have replaced Ajay Jadeja and Vangipurappu Laxman, said Jaywant Lele, secretary of the […]

TWENTY animal herders were massacred overnight at Brezina, about 400 kilometres southwest of Algiers. The authorities did not identify those held responsible for the attack, but said: “A major search operation has been launched for those behind this criminal act.” The attack bore the hallmarks of Muslim fundamentalist violence engulfing the north African country, but […]

FLOODING has destroyed part of Namibia’s irrigated maize crop in the south, but the country does not expect increased imports, an agricultural official said on Friday. Rains of up to 160 millimetres in the Hardap Dam’s catchment area filled the dam to 115% of capacity, leading to the sluice gates being opened and the flooding […]

JOHANNESBURG police have arrested an undisclosed number of heist suspects after Monday’s cash-in-transit heist near Springs in which a security guard was killed and two others were seriosuly injured. Police spokesman captain Andy Pieke said investigations were quite sensitive, but he revealed that cash trunks, several stolen vehicles and a number of guns were recovered. […]

COCA Cola will invest a billion dollars in Africa over the next three years, a top company official announced in Cairo at a conference of the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa. Coca Cola International Vice President Donald Short said the company’s development policy in Africa has recently seen sales rise 30% on the […]

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.00pm CELLPHONE giants Vodacom and MTN have welcomed the awarding of the preferred bid for the third cellular licence to Cell C; while Vodacom insists the consortium’s success in the industry is vital for future investment in the country. The South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority on Tuesday announced Cell C […]

AUSTRIAN Airlines will next month suspend its bi-weekly flights to Cape Town. Swiss Air stopped flights to Cape Town in October and Air France suspended its flights to the city in March last year. Cape Town International Airport manager Amien Nieftagodien said the Austrian Airlines announcement is disappointing. However, Virgin Airlines had recently scheduled flights […]

IN the latest in a series of family killings, a 38-year-old man has shot dead his ex-wife and her future parents-in-law in North West province. This is the fourth such killing in just over a week. Police are still searching for the man, who was already facing murder charges but was free on bail when […]

FABRICE ‘Akwa’ Maieco scored a hat-trick as Angola upset the Olympic football ambitions of Zimbabwe with a 4-2 win in Luanda at the weekend. Nigeria snatched a dramatic 1-0 victory over Uganda in Lagos in another Group A match and the stage is set for a thrilling finish next month with Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola […]

ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) said on Monday that it will hold talks later in the day with the National Union of Mineworkers to end a strike by NUM members at the Rustenburg precious metals refinery. Around 50 NUM members have picketed the refinery as part of their demands for a 12% pay rise and a […]