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/ 21 February 1999
ELECTIONS will go ahead, regardless of how many people register to vote, newly appointed Independent Electoral Commission chairwoman Brigalia Bam said on Saturday. Bam said that although the IEC is aiming to register 70% of the country’s 25 million eligible voters, the elections will not be postponed if the target is not reached. About 56,1% […]
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/ 21 February 1999
A FORMER mayor in the Rwandan town of Mabanza, wanted in connection for the 1994 genocide, was reportedly arrested in South Africa on Thursday and handed to the United Nations Court. Radio reports on Saturday said that Ignance Bagilishema was arrested in Pretoria for visa violations. He has been on the run since 1995 after […]
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/ 21 February 1999
TWO Portuguese nationals and two Spaniards have been kidnapped in northern Angola. The four, employees of the Maconang construction company, were reportedly abducted by Unita rebels just before government forces recaptured Mbanza-Congo region, the reports said. Carlos dos Santos Antonio and Ludgero Pinto Mesquita of Portugal and Arnaldo and Jose Rodrigues Alves of Spain had […]
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/ 21 February 1999
PREMIERSHIP team Seven Stars’ boss Rob Moore has alleged that Safa is trying to block the amalgamation deal between Stars, Cape Town Spurs and Ajax Amsterdam. Moore claims Safa has discussed the merger, and Spurs representative to a recent Premier Soccer League board meeting, John Comitis, produced minutes of a Safa meeting showing the merger […]
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/ 21 February 1999
THE communication minister for Congo (Brazzaville), Francois Ibovi, announced on Thursday the confiscation of unregistered sawmills using logs stolen alongside the Congo River. About 12712m of timber worth 1,073-billion CFA francs were stolen from logging companies in northern part of the country between June 1997 and April 1998. The Congolese government has established surveillance brigades […]
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/ 21 February 1999
A LIBERIAN military tribunal has formally charged nine military officers with sedition for their alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the government last year, a military communique said on Saturday. It accused the soldiers, detained without charge since last September, of fighting on the side of former warlord Roosevelt Johnson during clashes last September […]
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/ 21 February 1999
HIGHWAY robbers took away more than one million dollars worth of gold when they ambushed a bullion van transporting the precious metal to Accra, Ghana its owner, Resolute Amansie Limited said on Thursday. The head of the company’s risks management unit, William Usmer, said the gold weighing 170kg was being conveyed from the company’s mine […]
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/ 21 February 1999
ZIMBABWE’S Standard newspaper editor, Mark Chavunduka, and his chief writer, Ray Choto, will appear at the magistrates court on Monday to face charges of contravening section 50 of the Law and Order Maintenance Act. The two journalists were illegally detained and tortured by state agents before being released and brought to the court on 21 […]
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/ 21 February 1999
JUDGE Deon van Zyl of the Cape High Court has been appointed a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which has its head office in Lausanne, Switzerland. His appointment was confirmed at a recent meeting of the board of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport. Van Zyl, a former president of Athletics […]
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/ 21 February 1999
THE Finnish Parliament has approved the writing off of bilateral development credit to Zambia. The Finnish head of delegation, Kari Alanko, said at bilateral consultations between Zambia and Finland which began in Lusaka on Thursday that the write-off will amount to 45-million Finnish markka. The debt relief comes on the condition that Zambia makes available […]