Yearly Archives: 2000

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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.15pm. THE Southern African Develpment Community has warned that at least 200 people are dying of hunger each day in Angola, where fighting has disrupted farming activities. “An escalation in civil strife has made an already precarious food situation even worse,” the SADC said in a report released this week. […]

GOVERNMENT is drafting a bill that will make a property’s market value the sole means of assessing property taxes. Business Day reports that the legislation will introduce a single formula for calculating property taxes, replacing the 14 disparate methods currently in use. The bill aims at bringing untaxed areas into the tax net, applying a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. A POSITIVE finish on Wall Street and sturdier domestic bond and rand markets jacked up shares on the JSE for the second session in a row on Wednesday, but stocks soon gave away some opening gains. Diamond giant De Beers , the exchange’s third biggest stock by value, jumped […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. THE suspended chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League Joe Ndhlela allegedly bought clothing worth R1,3-million while appointing himself and the PSL accountant as signatories to a new PSL bank account. This is according to a charge sheet tabled at the PSL’s special tribunal on Tuesday, The Star […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier says his future as Japan’s coach is in the balance. The ”white witchdoctor” began a two year contract in September 1998 and is preparing his team for a series of six matches in Hong Kong, Macua and Japan. He ruled out fellow Frenchman and Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger taking […]

THE Egyptian Olympic Committee on Tuesday said that the country has expressed interest in hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Cairo. An official letter declaring Cairo’s candidacy was sent to the International Olympic Committee, a day before the Tuesday midnight deadline for cities to make their bids, said Committee spokesman Hasan el-Husseini. El-Husseini said the […]