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/ 15 February 2000
THE World’s best fielder, Jonty Rhodes, has made himself available for his home KwaZulu-Natal province in this weekend’s Standard Bank Cup game at Kingsmead. The mercurial cricketer chose to stay at home to be with his wife when their first child is born instead of joining the two-Test tour to India. While he said he’ll […]
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/ 15 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. BAFANA and Bolton Wanderers defender Mark Fish says he quit because he was accused of being a rascist. Fish said on Monday that a number of journalists launched a campaign to label him a racist after he allegedly had words with Bafana coach Trott Moloto. The multi-capped player told […]
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/ 15 February 2000
FORMER Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa has withdrawn a R1-million civil defamation suit against his successor Ndaweni Mahlangu at the urging of senior African National Congress leaders. The two antagonists confirmed they buried the hatchet in a joint statement on Tuesday after a weekend meeting chaired by ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe. Phosa lodged the defamation […]
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/ 15 February 2000
PALLADIUM surged to an all-time high of $625 an ounce bid on Tuesday after reports that Russian platinum-group-metals export quotas will not be signed soon. Platinum jumped $15 to $525,00/$535,00 after news that Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted the head of state precious metals reserve Gokhran as saying the signing of the export quotas may […]
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/ 15 February 2000
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma arrived in Angola on Monday for talks with President Jose Eduardo dos Santos expected to focus on the worsening security situation along their countries’ borders. Nujoma arrived at Luanda’s airport late on Monday morning and immediately drove to the presidential palace for a meeting with dos Santos. Nujoma is expected to […]
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/ 15 February 2000
KENYA has sent out an emergency appeal for food aid, saying that it needs about 4,5-billion shillings to combat a looming food shortage. According to a document signed by the head of public service and secretary to the cabinet, Richard Leakey, an average of 20000 metric tons of food are now required in the affected […]
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/ 15 February 2000
FORMER South African Test paceman Tertius Bosch died in a Durban hospital on Sunday after a long illness. He was a month short of his 34th birthday. Bosch played in one test, against West Indies in Bridgetown in 1992, which marked South Africa’s return to the test arena after the dismantling of apartheid. He returned […]
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/ 15 February 2000
FARMERS in Mpumalanga are banding together to fight land claims as a collective following studies showing that more than 41% or 3,2-million hectares of the province’s commercial agricultural land is under claim. The initiative will see the creation of a defence fund, special legal teams and technical advisors to manage immediate legal responses to all […]
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/ 15 February 2000
Mail_&_Guardian freelancer Charlene Smith, whose courageous account of being raped was published in the paper last year, is amongst 12 South African finalists for the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award announced on Sunday. CNN spokeswoman Monica Braganca said the finalists, from Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe were chosen from a […]
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/ 15 February 2000
GHANA’S troubled Ashanti Goldfields Company announced the appointment of Philip Tarsh, a senior independent director, as the acting chairman of its board of directors. This comes afer the resignation of Richard Kwame Peprah, the finance minister, as chairman of the Board with effect from 11 February. An Accra High Court last week ordered the company […]