Staff Reporter
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/ 12 January 2000

ANOTHER BOMB BLAST IN CAPE TOWN

A BOMB exploded on Wednesday outside the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, injuring two people. The bomb was placed at the entrance of the court, a member of the city’s rescue services said. He was unable to provide further details. Cape Town has been plagued by a series of bombings which police have blamed […]

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/ 12 January 2000

THUGWANE TO RACE LONDON MARATHON

SOUTH Africa’s Olympic champion Josiah Thugwane is one of seven leading athletes to join a strong men’s field for April’s London Marathon. Organisers said on Tuesday that reigning champion Abdelkader El Mouaziz of Morocco, Italy’s European champion Stefano Baldini and Portugal’s twice winner Antonio Pinto had also agreed to take part. World record holder Khalid […]

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/ 11 January 2000

DISEASED MAN LOSES ASBESTOSIS BATTLE

AN elderly man has lost his battle against the fatal lung disease asbestosis and with it a R2 million law suit against a cement manufacturer he claimed exposed him to lethal asbestos dust. Nelspruit attorney, Richard Spoor, said carpenter Stephanus Johannes Kleynhans, 70, had worked with products from cement manufacuturer, Everite Limited, for 40 years […]

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/ 11 January 2000

TEXACO HITS OIL IN NIGERIA

TEXACO has made a massive oil find at its Agbami field off Nigeria with potential recoverable reserves of more than one billion barrels. Texaco said on Thursday it completed testing on the Agbami-2 appraisal well confirmed that the Agbami structure was a “giant discovery” — among the largest single finds in deepwater West Africa. The […]

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/ 11 January 2000

CHIEFS RELEASE MAMALE

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo national team midfielder Emeka Mamale has been released by South African side Kaizer Chiefs, a club official said on Monday. Mamale, who is likely to be included in the Congolese African Nations Cup squad this week, did not impress during a six-month trial after moving to Johannesburg from Club Africain of […]

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/ 11 January 2000

POPULATION TO REACH 44M

THE country’s population is estimated to reach 44,7-million this year, the Bureau of Market Research at the University of South Africa said in a research report published on Monday. Earlier projections indicated a population figure of about 80-million by 2021, but factors such as declining fertility levels and life expectancies due to Aids put that […]

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/ 11 January 2000

BORDER MAKES ONE CHANGE FOR WEDNESDAY

ONLY one change has been made to the Border Bears team to play Easterns in a Standard Bank Cup limited-overs match at Buffalo Park on Wednesday. Pieter Strydom will be joining the national squad for the fifth Test at Centurion, and his place has been taken by all-rounder, Francois Klopper, who played in the last […]

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/ 11 January 2000

PIK BOTHA JOINING ANC?

PIK Botha, the apartheid’s government’s foreign minister for 17 years, is considering joining the African National Congress, and called in a Sunday newspaper on fellow Afrikaners to do the same. Botha said in an interview with the City Press newspaper that the time had come for whites, especially Afrikaners, to reach out to blacks in […]

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/ 11 January 2000

AFRICAN GROWTH AVERAGES 3,5%

ECONOMIC growth across Africa averaged 3,5% in 1999, much the same as in 1998, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Omar Kabbaj said on Monday, citing provisional figures. He told a meeting of ambassadors to Ivory Coast that the Asian crisis and the spread of conflict in some African countries meant that growth rates of 4,0% […]

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/ 11 January 2000

Pay dispute threatens Swazi soccer

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 3.45pm. SWAZILAND may soon be without its best soccer players after the national team accused the country of exploiting their talents by paying match fees of only R25 per international. Players, headed by team vice captain Siza Dlamini, also complained they are paid only R5000 in appearance fees, while […]