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/ 14 January 1999
President Nelson Mandela is expected to discuss the Angolan war and whether Southern African Development Conference troops may be sent.
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/ 14 January 1999
SOCCER players of the Zambian national women’s squad blamed their coaches on Wednesday for their 15-0 defeat by South Africa in Swaziland. They claimed the coaches were more interested in sex than soccer. One of the players said that some male coaches demanded sexual favours in return for a place in the women’s national team. […]
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/ 14 January 1999
A KENYAN court Wednesday sentenced three foreigners to three months in prison each for smoking and causing a disturbance aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Lagos to Nairobi. Aboubakar Omar Hussein and Ramadhan Faiz Abeid of Tanzania and Nalillakaren Appu of India were charged with committing the offences on Tuesday aboard Kenya Airways flight KQ-433. […]
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/ 14 January 1999
FOREIGNERS were net sellers of R799,3-million worth of South African government bonds on Wednesday after selling R226-million on Tuesday, according to the latest Bond Exchange data.
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/ 14 January 1999
SUDAN has opted to use the unified European currency, the euro, in its commercial transations as an alternative to the United States dollar. The Bank of Sudan said in a circular to various banks of the country, that “we are going to concentrate in the coming period on conducting commercial transactions in the euro as […]
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/ 14 January 1999
THE NATIONAL Minister of Health, Dr Nkosazana Zuma, has appointed a task team to investigate the organization of a national health laboratory service. The team will integrate the teaching, training and research activities currently associated with various pathology laboratories.
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/ 14 January 1999
UNSEASONABLY good rains have filled almost all Northern Province’s dams to capacity and could spark a lucrative agricultural boom in the region. Water affairs officials said on Thursday that heavy rains over the past three months have filled the important Ebenerzer, Klaserie and Magoebaskloof dams to 100% capacity while all others in the province are […]
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/ 14 January 1999
CNN HAS implemented a poll on whether South Africa ought to implement racial quotas for teams competing in the Currie Cup. They outline a couple of sides of the issue in their piece, and the results are unambiguously against any kind of quota. See the poll, and vote at: CNN and view the results at: […]
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/ 14 January 1999
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Thursday 11.15pm. A SENIOR rebel commander in Sierra Leone said on Thursday that he has agreed to a temporary ceasefire to halt hostilities in the capital Freetown. Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front invaded the city last week, and have since been fighting Nigerian intervention troops of the regional Ecomog force. […]
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/ 14 January 1999
VETERAN West Indies Sir Vivian Richards cricketer is ready to help the beleaguered West Indies team who are trailing 4-0 in their five-Test series in South Africa. Sir Vivian, who retired from Test cricket in 1991 and never lost a series as captain, said on Tuesday: “If I can help in whatever department, I will […]