Yearly Archives: 2000

A FIRE broke out in the mountains above Cape Town’s plush Llandudno suburb on Wednesday afternoon, but was quickly bought under control. About six hectares of mountainside was burnt in the Suikerbossie area, but no property was threatened and all roads remained open, South Peninsula nunicipality officials said. Three helicopters were used to waterbomb the […]

FORMULA One boss Eddie Jordan on Wednesday called for Africa to be put back on the grand prix calendar. The last race on African soil was the South African Grand Prix in 1993 on the Kyalami circuit and Jordan insists it is time Africa hosted another race. “We should have and must strive earnestly to […]

THE Cte d’Ivoire’s football team is expected to be released on Wednesday after being held at a military camp outside Yamoussoukro after their defeat in the African Nations Cup, star footballer Basile Boli said. Boli, a former French player of Ivorian descent, planned to visit the Zambakro camp but cancelled his trip after receiving a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 8.00am. RIOT police were called in on Tuesday to break up clashes between drivers fighting over scarce diesel in Harare’s working-class suburb of Kuwadzana, the domestic Ziana news agency reported. Witnesses said drivers engaged in fistfights and hurled rocks at each other after some mini-bus drivers tried to jump a […]

NADER al-Sayed had the rare experience of collecting the ball from the back of the net as defending champions Egypt stormed into the African Cup of Nations quarterfinals on Tuesday. Al-Sayed surrendered a 489-minute unbeaten record spanning two editions of the biennial football showcase on Tuesday when Ismael Koudou of Burkina Faso blasted the ball […]

EGYPT is demanding $1.4-million from the organisers of the Paris-Dakar motor rally to make good the damage it inflicted on a nature reserve, the government daily Al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday. It said the Egyptian Environment Affairs Agency, part of the environment ministry, has lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office against the organiser of […]

REBELS and their Rwandan military allies beheaded 12 women in an attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Kinshasa daily reported on Tuesday citing a local medical source. The massacre took place on January 5 in the village of Kasika in Mwenga territory in Sud-Kivu province, according to La Reference […]

THE greater Johannesburg metropolitan council is selling Johanesburg’s athletics stadium as loan repayments drain council coffers. The council is paying R11m a year to service the R164m outstanding on a R87m loan that the council took out in 1995 to finance the building of the stadium. The aim was to use the stadium, situated next […]

DUDU Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, pleaded not guilty in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Wednesday to defeating the ends of justice and to seven of 10 fraud charges against her. Nkosi told the court she was convinced Chauke was Max Shirhami Zikhale and that she had no reason to doubt […]

CAPE Town dropped out of the running of the for the 2008 Summer Olympics, when they did not submit their preliminary bid application with the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Beijing is the early favourite of the ten cities which submitted bids, including Bangkok, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Paris, Seville and Toronto. Buenos […]