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/ 8 February 2000

WEBSITES RISE TO THE AIDS CHALLENGE

OVER R2-million worth of advertising space has been donated by websites to the Aids Online Challenge, part of the greater Aids awareness campaign on the go in the country. It is the largest online advertising campaign ever seen in South Africa. The initiative’s main sponsor, Oracle Online Sales, has invited top creative online agencies to […]

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/ 8 February 2000

WOMEN’S FIGHT CANCELLED

OUTDATED legislation has led to the cancellation of what was set to be the first official fight between two woman in South Africa. The bout, scheduled to have taken place on the undercard of the triple world title bill at Carnival city on February 19, but under current legislation it is ilegal for women to […]

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/ 8 February 2000

KENYA AIRBUS VICTIMS ARRIVE IN NAIROBI

THE bodies of six victims in the Kenya Airways jet that crashed into the sea off Cote d’Ivoire on January 30, leaving 169 people dead or missing, arrived in Nairobi on Monday aboard a regular Kenya Airways flight. The Airbus flight, carrying other passengers, along with family members and relatives of the six victims — […]

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/ 8 February 2000

ZIM MINERAL EXPORTS RISE

ZIMBABWE exported minerals worth Z$11,4-billion in 1999, up by 62,8% on the previous year’s total earnings of Z$7-billion, state-run Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe said. The figure excludes earnings from gold, whose sale was handled by the central bank, and asbestos which was marketed independently by a company which mined it. Total mineral earnings in […]

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/ 8 February 2000

NIGERIAN TELECOMS HEAD SUSPENDED

THE head of the Nigerian government agency responsible for overseeing the troubled telecommunications sector has been suspended, the newspaper This Day reported on Thursday. Emma Nnama, who is chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was questioned by security agents for 30 minutes in his office Wednesday after his suspension, the paper said. […]

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/ 8 February 2000

MOROCCAN COACH QUITS

MOROCCAN coach Henri Michel resigned on Monday after his team’s disappointing showing in the African Nations Cup. Michel, the former French coach who steered Morocco in the 1998 World Cup, has been vilified by the Moroccan media for the Atlas Lion’s disappointing showing, and their elimination in the group stages. They narrowly beat lowly Congo […]

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/ 8 February 2000

Bafana face Nigeria after Aghahowa scores twice

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Tuesday 9.35am. TEENAGER Julius Aghahowa was the two-goal hero as title favourites Nigeria overcame outsiders Senegal 2-1 after extra time on Monday in the last African Nations Cup quarter-final. This sets up Bafana Bafana with a semi-final showdown on Thursday against Nigeria, who refused to defend the cup they lifted the […]

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/ 8 February 2000

CRIME COSTS BANKS A PACKET

BANKS could nearly double profits and cut bank charges by 15% if they could win the battle against bank crime, The Star reports. In 1999, R68-million was stolen in bank robberies. According to the paper, crime committed at ATMs cost R55-million and fraud estimated to cost about R4-billion a year. In 1998, banks made a […]

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/ 8 February 2000

GIRLS BESIEGE EGYPTIAN PLAYERS’ HOTEL

SCORES of Egyptian girls in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Monday continued their seige of the hotel housing the Egyptian football team. The girls, autograph hunters in their teens and early twenties, lurked around the hotel’s reception hall with the hope of getting the players’ attention. Some of the Egyptian players not only granted autographs but […]

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/ 8 February 2000

GOING’S FORMER LOVER SENTENCED

THE former boyfriend of television presenter Tracy Going, Richard Latham, has been fined R5000 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. Latham assaulted Going during their relationship and maliciously damaged her car. Latham also received a five-year suspended sentenceon condition that he agrees to drug rehabilitation and periodic urine tests. In one particular incident that was widely […]