Yearly Archives: 2000

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 […]

THE United States has denied it is moving to ease its policy toward Libya, and says a Washington Post report to that effect is incorrect. State Department spokesman James Rubin said restrictions on US citizens traveling to Libya remain in place and that permission being granted for the Libyan UN ambassador to visit Washington earlier […]

ALISTER BULL, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday the country needed to grow by more than its forecast 3.5% to ease poverty and would pick the brains of international experts to meet this challenge. ”We will invite a panel of ‘significant economists’ later this year to help us think […]