Yearly Archives: 2000

CAMEROON’S under-23 team revenged themselves on Amaglug-glug in a Group Two 2000 Olympic qualifier on Saturday. Amaglug-glug have been knocked down to second on the group log after the loss at at the Omnisport Stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon, on Saturday afternoon. Cameroon’s Patrick Suffo and Ze Meyong, fresh from the seniors national tema’s won in […]

ANANTHARAMAN MURALIKUMAR, Bombay | Saturday 2.00pm WICKETKEEPER Mark Boucher’s nuggety 27 not out saw South Africa to a spectacular four wicket victory over India with two days to spare in the first Test, despite a four wicket slump. The touring team, needing 163 to win, were shaken when they subsided from 107 for two to […]

HEAVILY armed ex-rebel forces in Sierra Leone forced a contingent of United Nations peacekeeping troops to back off from deployment into an eastern region, the UN mission UNAMSIL said on Friday. The troops involved in Thursday’s standoff were heading from Kenema and Daru, 240 and 270 kilometres east of Freetown, for Koidu in the diamond […]

A FOUNDING member of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy, Roger Lumbala, resigned on Friday from its leadership, saying the movement is guilty of human rights violations and corrupt. He accused officials in the Rwandan-backed wing of the RCD, the main rebel force which has been fighting President Laurent Kabila’s government in the Democratic Republic […]

HOWARD BARRELL, Johannesburg | Friday 12.00am. HUMAN Rights Commission chair Barney Pityana co-authored a newspaper article three years ago in which he effectively prejudged the central issue into which he has now called a commission of inquiry — whether there is racism in the South African media. The terms of reference of the HRC’s controversial […]

SOUTH Africa’s James Kingston took the first round lead on thursday in the $200000 Myanmar Open after carding a course record eight-under-par 64 at the Yangon Golf Club. Kingston, a two-time winner on the Asian PGA Tour, fired a faultless round which included eight birdies to open up a three-stroke lead over India’s Jyoti Randhawa […]

GOLD production rose by 1,6% to 114,5 tons in the final quarter of last year from the third quarter, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. Fourth-quarter 1999 output was 3,8% lower than the 119 tons produced in the same period of 1998 said the Chamber, which represents major mining houses. Production in the quarter […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday 11.00am THE death toll from floods in Zimbabwe in the wake of Cyclone Eline has risen to at least 29, with an unknown number feared killed when a bus was swept off a bridge. At the same time at least 21 people have been killed in the Northern Province since […]

THE Constitutional Court on Friday upheld a decision by the Transvaal High Court to set aside a medicines Act promulgated last year, but which did not provide for the proper control of dangerous drugs. The South African Medicines and Medical Devices Regulatory Authority Act 1998 came into force on April 30 last year, before being […]

JULIUS Aghahowa, Nigeria’s super-sub during the African Nations Cup, is doubtful for the Olympic qualifier against Uganda on Saturday. “I am nursing a nagging pain in my thigh but doctors have been working on it”, said Aghahowa, who scored three goals for Nigeria in the biennial African championship jointly hosted by Ghana and Nigeria. Aghahowa, […]