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/ 21 February 2000
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, […]
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/ 21 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 21 February 2000
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, […]
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/ 21 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 21 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 21 February 2000
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 […]
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/ 21 February 2000
SHARES in the world’s top platinum and palladium producers, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and Impala Platinum Holdings stumbled on Friday on news Russia planned to resume platinum group supplies. Platinum on Friday was fixed at $715,00 an ounce after hitting an all-time high of $735,00 on Thursday, while platinum was fixed at $537,00 an ounce. […]
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/ 21 February 2000
ZIM President Robert Mugabe celebrates a subdued birthday on Monday, still stung by last week’s defeat in a national referendum on a draft new constitution his government sponsored. The veteran leader turns 76, and is still keeping the southern African nation of 12-million people guessing about his political intentions even after suffering his first electoral […]
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/ 21 February 2000
PAPER and pulp group Sappi said on Friday it has received an offer from Italy’s Favini Group to acquire its Astralux brand of cast coated papers. Sappi said in a statement that acceptance of the offer would result in the production of cast coated papers at its Blackburn mill in Britain ceasing on May 14, […]