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/ 24 February 1999
FOREIGN Minister Alfred Nzo left for Luanda, Angola on Wednesday for a one-day visit, during which he will meet with Angolan President, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. He is accompanied by Deputy Director-General for African Affairs, Welile Nhlapo. Nzo, in his capacity as Chairman of the Southern African Development Community’s Council of Ministers, will use the […]
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/ 24 February 1999
EASTERN Cape transport and public works MEC Thobile Mhlahlo was on Tuesday arrested by Umtata High Court Judge Stefaans Visser, for contempt of court. Mhlahlo and his secretary were ordered in November 1998 to explain to the court why 35 former civil servants were not paid voluntary severance packages. Visser said then that the former […]
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/ 24 February 1999
THE final of the one-day international triangular series between England, Zimbabwe and hosts South Africa next year has been put back three days to Saturday, February 12, 2000. The dates of three round-robin matches have also been changed, the United Cricket Board of South Africa said on Tuesday in Cape Town. South Africa meet Zimbabwe […]
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/ 24 February 1999
THE Sudanese opposition coalition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) charged on Tuesday that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is ready to divide the country to establish an Islamic state in the north. Beshir was quoted in several Sunday papers in Sudan as saying, “The option of separating the south from the north is likely if the (civil) […]
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/ 24 February 1999
SOUTH African cricket manager Goolam Rajah was released from a New Zealand hospital on Tuesday having been given a clean bill of health. Rajah was admitted to Hamilton hospital in the early hours of Monday morning after feeling unwell during the night. Rajah said tests had revealed nothing serious. He rejoined the South African team […]
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/ 24 February 1999
PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma is to meet his South African counterpart Nelson Mandela in Pretoria on Wednesday. Neither the Namibian State House nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would say what the meeting was about. “We are all in the dark about this day trip,” a foreign affairs official said. However, a well-placed source indicated that […]
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/ 24 February 1999
SOLDIERS and police in Northern Province arrested over 2300 illegal immigrants in January, said provincial spokesperson for the South African National Defence Force, Major Santie Oberholzer, on Tuesday. She said most of the 2333 arrested aliens were Zimbabweans, while 21 were Mozambicans and another 20 came from other countries to find work as cheap labour […]
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/ 24 February 1999
DAMON HILL could quit Formula One at the end of the season if he does not have a successful year with Jordan, his team boss Eddie Jordan said Wednesday. “If he does a good job for us, we’ll want him to stay. If he doesn’t, he’ll want to stop himself,” said Jordan, who has teamed […]
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/ 24 February 1999
CADBURY Schweppes (SA) will have a tough first half in 1999, but it should be offset by an upturn in the economy in the second half and restructuring, the company’s chairman said. “It was a tough year… There is no doubt in the second half that consumer demand fell off and it coincided with a […]
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/ 24 February 1999
THE Northern Province government hoped to reduce its 1999/2000 debt to R400-million from R680-million in 1998/1999, finance MEC Thaba Mufamadi said on Wednesday. The province also planned to cut down on its present wage costs Mufamadi said while tabling budget proposals in the legislature in Pietersburg. The budget of R11,9-billion was 5,9% higher than the […]