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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
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
OLYMPIC marathoner Abel Mokibe made his long-awaited return to road racing when he won the Pick ‘n Pay marathon in Bedfordview on Sunday. Mokibe finished only nine seconds outside of the incentive time clocking 2:23:09. He started the race with the intention of running an easy qualifier but the lack of commitment up front forced […]
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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
SOUTH AFRICA has dropped reformed bad boy, Alfred Phiri, for an African Nations Cup qualifier against Gabon on February 27 in Mabopane. Turkish-based Phiri celebrated his return from a three-match ban after being sent off in the World Cup finals last year with the winner in a 2-1 Castle Cup Southern Africa championship victory over […]
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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
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
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 […]
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/ 21 February 1999
THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have decided to suspend all disbursements to war-torn Sierra Leone until the situation improves, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said on Friday. Annoucing the withdrawal Kabbah, whose government last month survived a rebel invasion of Freetown with the help of Nigerian-led intervention troops, noted that Sierra Leone is […]
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/ 21 February 1999
RESULTS from the Gauteng Netball Opening Tournament held at Avion Park, near Johannesburg on Saturday: SAP (West Rand) 12 Moret A 28, Benoni A 16 Twist Real G 17, Boksburg A 13 SAPD (West Rand) 5, Benoni A 14 Avalon 15, Winners 15 SAPD (West Rand) 18, Moret A 18 Avalon 16, Avalon 14 SAPD […]