Staff Reporter
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/ 17 January 2000

SHOES CONSIDERS PUTTING FEET UP

SOUTH Africa midfielder John ‘Shoes’ Moshoeu told weekend newspapers he is considering retiring after the African Nations Cup. Moshoeu, 33, has won a record 56 caps for Bafana Bafana. PREMIERSHIP RESULTS Sunday. At Free State Stadium: Bloemfontein Celtic 3 (Matsau 19, 55, Lebohang Kukame 46) Wits University 3 (Sammy Magalefa 10, Charles Yohane 35, William […]

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/ 17 January 2000

FORMER MPUMA FINANCE CHIEF IN COURT

MPUMALANGA’S 43-year-old former finance chief, Shadrack Mashele, appeared briefly in Nelspruit’s regional court on fraud charges on Monday after allegedly using State funds to settle personal business debts. Mashele appeared in court with Mpumalanga assistant finance director Sellion Maseko, 37, but was not asked to plead when they were both released on their own recognisance. […]

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/ 17 January 2000

GERMAN PRINCE IN KENYA BRAWL

PRINCE Ernst-August of Hanover, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and a gang of men have put a German hotel and disco owner in intensive care after a punchup in Kenya. The disco owner, Joe Brunnlehner, was on Sunday being treated in hospital in the Kenyan coast city of Mombasa, where his wife Narriman said […]

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/ 17 January 2000

Harmony gets Randfontein as Kebble drama unravels

NICOLE MORDANT and DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Monday 5.45pm HARMONY Gold company said on Monday it has taken operational control of Randfontein Estates after a sweetened R862-million bid won the approval of Randfontein’s board. ”Randfontein, as of this morning, will be flying the Harmony flag,” Harmony CE Bernard Swanepoel told analysts at a briefing in […]

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/ 16 January 2000

BLAZE ON SIGNAL HILL EXTINGUISHED

FIRE fighters battled for several hours to extinguish a blaze on Cape Town’s Signal Hill on Friday afternoon, which had city residents choking on the thick smoke. The fire was fanned by strong winds, and a helicopter trailing buckets of sea water scooped from the ocean were used to bomb the flames, which were eventually […]

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/ 16 January 2000

Wall wins Dunhill Challenge

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. ANTHONY Wall from Sunningdale in England, the son of a London taxi driver won the Alfred Dunhill Challenge by two shots at the Houghton golf course on Sunday. Wall shot a final round 68, four under par to earn his first victory on the European Tour, although it came […]

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/ 16 January 2000

BELGIANS MURDERED LUMUMBA, BOOK CLAIMS

CONGOLESE independence leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in 1961 by soldiers acting on the orders of a Belgian army captain in the presence of other Belgian officers, a new book claimed on Friday. Investigative author Ludo de Witte claimed Belgium was directly responsible for the assassination of Lumumba, the first post-independence leader in its former […]