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/ 17 February 1999
POLICE arrested eight men on Tuesday in connection with Friday’s robbery of a group of 19 United States tourists at a preschool in Mamelodi, Pretoria. Mamelodi police spokesperson Captain Elias Mawela said the men were arrested between 3am and 6am on Tuesday morning. He said the police have so far recovered a cellphone, a camera, […]
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/ 17 February 1999
THE world’s largest gold producer, Anglogold, arranged a $350-million syndicated term loan facility in London on Friday. The unsecured loan will pay for the acquisition of Minorco’s gold assets around the world. The firm reports that the syndication was well oversubscribed, and that this was the largest facility to be raised for a South African […]
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/ 17 February 1999
AFTER waiting for 25 years, Burundi has decided to develop the rich Musongati nickel deposit in the southern part of country by entrusting its exploitation to a Canadian-Australian company. With reserves of about 18-million tons of nickel laterite, the Burundian deposit is said to be among the three largest in the world, behind those of […]
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/ 17 February 1999
NON-residents were net buyers of R293,4-million worth of South African bonds on Monday after buying only R49,3-million worth on Friday, according to the latest Bond Exchange data.
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/ 17 February 1999
UNITED States engineering company, Fluor Daniel, launched a $1,3-million feasibility study into a second Mozambican aluminum smelter in the coastal city of Beira on Tuesday. The proposed smelter would produce up to 250000 tons of aluminum per year from its Savane site, 25km north of Beira. Mozambican national energy director Casimiro Fransisco said the 10-month […]
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/ 17 February 1999
NIGERIAN presidential candidate Olusegun Obasanjo late on Tuesday named a northeastern politician, Abubakar Atiku, as his running mate in February 27 elections.Obasanjo, a former military ruler from the southwest of Nigeria, is facing a man from the same region, former finance minister Olu Falae, in the polls. Falae on Tuesday named a northwestern politician, and […]
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/ 17 February 1999
PUBLIC Works Minister Jeff Radebe on Tuesday received amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for his arming self-defence units of the United Democratic Front/African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s.
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/ 17 February 1999
“WONDERFUL. It’s a smashing dramatic victory. It means Namibia could even finish second on the log standings,” said Namibian Cricket Board president Laurie Pieters, when he announced the national team’s one-run victory over Boland A in a three-day match on Sunday. Namibia accumulated 240 runs, dismissing Boland A for 239 with James Kirtley taking 5/58. […]
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/ 17 February 1999
THE Medical University of Southern Africa (Medunsa) has given students with financial problems 10 more days in which to make arrangements to pay their fees. Students owe the university over R56,1 million in fees. A debt of R26,1 million was incurred during the 1998 academic year alone. Medunsa spokesman, Richard Maseko, said on Tuesday that […]
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/ 17 February 1999
UNITED States Vice President Al Gore arrives in Cape Town aboard Air Force Two on Wednesday morning for the first full session of the US/South Africa binational commission since August 1997. Thursday’s session on the theme “the SA-US partnership into the new millennium” will be co-chaired by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and Gore. A trade […]