Yearly Archives: 2000

A MYSTERIOUS disease has killed hundreds of flamingos at Lake Nakuru and Bogoria National Parks, in Kenya’s Rift-Valley province, over the past few months. The Kenya Wildlife Service said the infection has greatly reduced the number of the famous coloured birds and warned they could be wiped out within the next few weeks if the […]

SHARES in I-Fusion tumbled at the start of dealings on Friday after the information technology company warned that its profits for the year to end-February will fall short of market expectations. The first trade in I-Fusion slashed 10% or 10 cents off the company’s stock price to 85 cents, a new record low. I-Fusion said […]

SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South Africa’s embassy in Abidjan said on Monday. “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]

A United States embassy official was beaten and his wife and sister-in-law raped by unknown assailants while holidaying on a farm near Ladybrand in the Free State at the weekend. Police on Monday were searching for two male suspects in the brutal attack on the two women, who are Lesotho citizens, and American Michael Breeding, […]

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has been arrested by police. Boland police spokesman Captain Anton de Kock told ZA*NOW that Jooste, 35, handed himself over to police […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 1.35pm CYCLONE Eline, which killed seven people and caused severe damage as it swept across the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, reached flood-devastated Mozambique on Monday. “The effects of the cyclone are beginning to be felt in the southern coastal province of Inhambane,” the head of the national weather institute, […]

BUSH Bucks offered little in the form of resistance in their Castle Premiership match against a coachless Orlando Pirates at the Umtata Stadium on Sunday, and were whipped 2-0 after a lacklustre performance. Pirates controlled the match from the word go, and Pirates scored their first of the match in the 25th minute through Sibusiso […]

THE British government has ordered a probe under the Official Secrets Act into the leaking of a secret report describing a 1996 plot to assassinate Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Police in London are investigating how a four-page document from MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, came to be published on a US-based website. Police officers arrived […]

UK hotels and brewing company Bass has declined to comment on a Financial Times report that it has put its beer division up for sale to focus on the faster growing leisure and hotels operations. Bass shares, which have underperformed the market by 18% in the past year, edged up just one penny to 696p […]