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/ 11 February 1999
FUGITIVE German billionaire Jurgen Harksen collapsed at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday after being refused bail. Harksen was admitted to hospital under police guard with a suspected heart attack. Cape Town Magistrate Mike Wagener, who earlier this week ordered Harksen’s extradition to Germany on tax evasion charges, on Wednesday refused him bail and […]
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/ 11 February 1999
ZIMBABWE’S short-term money market rates spiked higher on Wednesday in their first large reaction to the central bank’s weekend rates hike. However, localised student unrest at the university campus on Wednesday had no effect on trade, dealers said. The Reserve Bank lifted its benchmark bank rate on Saturday by 2,5 percentage points to 45% and, […]
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/ 11 February 1999
A CONSTRUCTION engineer told the Inyaka bridge inquiry on Thursday that cracks which appeared in the bridge before it collapsed were wider than allowed. Ricardo de Sastet, an engineer for the bridge’s builders Concor Construction, told the inquiry that cracks seen on the bridge before the collapse were 1,2 metres long and two millimetres wide […]
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/ 11 February 1999
KALAHARI Bushmen who once occupied the land in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park will be returned a part of the park plus additional land in a historic agreement to be saigned next month. Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom said on Thursday. the land claim is at “the point of settlement” and he is confident the […]
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/ 11 February 1999
A COALITION of eight opposition parties in Niger has taken the lead in weekend municipal elections, according to preliminary and partial results released in the capital Niamey on Thursday by the National Independent Electoral Commission (Ceni). The coalition, which has fared better in Niger’s main cities, has captured 318 municipal seats out out 570 districts, […]
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/ 11 February 1999
President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graa Machel will visit Sweden next month.
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/ 11 February 1999
BUSINESSMEN in Lesotho are outarged at South Africa’s sudden suspension of special travel concessions allowing multiple entry for business purposes without having to stand in long queues at border post. South African home affairs suspended the six-month concessions, granted to people who travel regularly for business or study, without warning. Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and […]
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/ 11 February 1999
THE Camel White Water Challenge will be held in South Africa this year and not in Uganda, it was announced on Wednesday. The Ugandan government refused permission over concerns that the event’s publicity would create a lobby against a proposed dam development, organiser Tony Hansen said. Special permission was granted by the National Parks Board […]
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/ 11 February 1999
AMERICAN superstar sprinter Marion Jones will be among five leading Americans participating in the last two legs of the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. Prevented by budget constraints from taking part in the March 13 Summer Series opening in Pietersburg, the Americans will be competing in Roodeport on March 19 and in Cape Town on […]
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/ 11 February 1999
INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi claimed on Wednesday that African National Congress leaders in violent KwaZulu-Natal province are arming supporters ahead of the general elections this year. Buthelezi said in Cape Town that the ANC has plans to assassinate IFP leaders and that a number have already come under attack in recent days. He […]