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/ 14 January 1999
AT least 18 people have been granted amnesty recently and five others refused by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Among those granted amnesty is an Inkatha Freedom Party member Boy Vusimuzi Gwamanda who applied for amnesty for the 1990 conspiracy to kill Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa. Other people granted amnesty include […]
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/ 14 January 1999
NEDBANK on Tuesday confirmed reports that theives had tapped into its cardholder accounts and spent an estimated R1-million in a shopping spree that involved about 2000 transactions. Nedcor chief operations executive Mike Leeming confirmed that the bank will repay clients for losses as a result of the fraud. He claimed that “certain precautions” in the […]
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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
SEVEN of the young Tuli elephants belonging to Riccardo Ghiazza’s African Game Services were shipped out of South Africa on Wednesday night, bound for zoos in Germany and Switzerland. National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spokesperson Christine Kuch said the elephants were moved from Ghiazza’s Brits premises on Wednesday morning. […]
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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
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 […]
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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
NAMIBIA has reduced the number of its troops deployed in the north-eastern Caprivi region against a secessionist group and the area is calm, Home Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo said on Wednesday. The minister denied claims by Caprivi residents who have fled to Botswana that they are being harassed by police Special Field Forces bidding to […]
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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
TWO Italian Roman Catholic missionaries who were abducted recently in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have been freed, the missionary news agency Misna reported here on Wednesday.They have been taken to a site near Freetown’s airport on Wednesday.Maurizio Boa and Giuliano Pini, who belong to the Giuseppini del Murialdo order, were abducted on Sunday. A third […]