Yearly Archives: 2000

TWO weeks after a Kenya Airways jet plunged into the sea off Cote d’Ivoire, the cause of the crash remains a mystery as the plane’s black box sits in a sealed container in Abidjan. Director of Cote d’Ivoire’s civil aviation authority Jean Kouassi Abonoua said that the flight data recorder, retrieved from the debris in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SA’S first army equipment company led by a black woman delivered its inaugural shipment of 26 armoured vehicles to Armscor on Tuesday. Delivery was made by Nelspruit-based Bohlabela Wheels, and is part of a R1,6 million deal in February last year. The deal – for limited manufacturing – was signed immediately after the company received […]

THE University of Port Elizabeth has elected Independent Electoral Commission chairwoman Dr Brigalia Bam as its new Chancellor. She will be inaugurated as the university’s fifth chancellor in April. Bam plans to use her tenure at UPE to transform tertiary education. She holds qualifications in teaching, social work, communication and management. She has been awarded […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.00pm CONSUMER prices rose by more than expected in January, prompting a small sell-off in the government bond market and weakness in the rand. The consumer price index rose by 2,6% year-on-year in the first month of 2000, from 2,2% in December, against a consensus forecast for a 2,3% climb, […]

TWO women have lodged complaints of sexual harassment against one of Parliament’s senior managers. Frene Ginwala, the Speaker of Parliament, said on Tuesday that the women had been assured that they would be protected, and the case was under investigation. Media reports that several women had been abused by the manager, but were afraid to […]