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/ 26 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 26 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 26 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 26 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 26 February 2000
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, […]
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/ 26 February 2000
DOCKERS with army protection have resumed work at Cte d’Ivoire’s main port of Abidjan, undermining an unofficial strike there, port and union sources said on Thursday. The dockers called the strike on Wednesday, expressing frustration with both the employers and their unions. They said a deal on pay and conditions struck after a stoppage in […]
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/ 26 February 2000
PAGAD national chief coordinator Abdus Salaam Ebrahim has been denied bail in the Cape Town Regional Court. The court said the path of intimidation that Pagad has chosen has caused the organisation a lot of damage and that there is no exceptional circumstances justifying Ebrahim’s release on bail. Ebrahim is accused of murdering Hard Livings […]
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/ 25 February 2000
He specialises in brutal male dramas. But in The Insider Michael Mann’s protagonists aren’t gunslingers, angry Mohicans or serial killers – they’re corporate Americans. Stuart Husband reports.
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/ 25 February 2000
The Human Rights Commission says that it served subpoenas on newspaper editors, including the editor of the Mail & Guardian, Phillip van Niekerk, because it believed this was the only way of ensuring their attendance at the hearings. The Mail & Guardian never refused to attend.
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/ 25 February 2000
There was a strong South African presence at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. Andrew Worsdale was there.