Yearly Archives: 2000

MARK GLEESON, Kumasi | Friday 6.50pm. BAFANA Bafana defender Mark Fish and his teammates are relishing the prospect of playing in front of a hostile capacity home crowd against co-hosts Ghana in Sunday’s African Nations Cup quarter-final. ”There’s nothing better than to play against a full crowd that is against us,” said the England-based defender […]

THREE policemen charged with using unnecessary force against ”People’s Poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli were acquitted during a disciplinary hearing last week. Mbuli claimed the three Lyttelton policemen assaulted and insulted him in January last year when they came to fetch him from the Pretoria Regional Court, where he was being tried for armed robbery. The policemen […]

A TORNADO and blinding rain ripped through several townships near Newcastle on Wednesday night, and the local MP wants them declared a disaster area. More than 100 injured people were admitted to Madadeni and Newcastle hospitals. Details of their injuries are expected later, and it is not yet known whether anyone was killed, or how […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 9.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s cricketers start the long climb to the final of the triangular limited-overs international series anew when they face a hyped England in East London. The Proteas’ two-wicket defeat on Wednesday to Zimbabwe at Kingsmead has seen them toppled from the top of the log, and they […]

THE Organisation of African Unity has decided to impose travel and financial restrictions on leaders of the Anjouanese separatist movement in the Comoros islands. The sanctions are a bid to force the separatists to commit to negotiations on the future of the break-away island, according to a statement issued by OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed […]

AN Eastern Cape farmer has been diagnosed with the deadly and contagious Congo Fever. An intensive program has been launched in the province to prevent the spread of the disease. The farmer, Francois Retief, 51, is in a critical condition and is being treated in strict isolation. He was initially admitted to hospital at Graaff-Reinet […]

EASTERN Cape doctor Costa Gazi has been fined R1000 for criticising former health minister Nkosazana Zuma over the government’s refusal to issue the anti-AIDS drug AZT to infected pregnant women. The health department disciplinary committee in the Eastern Cape also warned Gazi of “serious action” should he repeat the criticism. Gazi told an East London-based […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Thursday 7.30pm. THE Cte d’Ivoire’s national soccer squad were released from a military camp outside Yamoussoukro on Thursday after being held since their defeat in the African Nations Cup. The players, who were detained at the Zambakro “School for the Maintenance of Peace,” arrived late afternoon in Abidjan, where they are […]

THE case against Dudu Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke, was postponed on Thursday to allow the State to prove she used her sister’s alleged death to make false insurance claims. The Nelspruit Regional Court postponed its hearing against Nkosi to next Wednesday, February 9, to allow the State to call witnesses […]