EGYPT’s Great Pyramids and Sphinx will be closed to the public on December 30 1999 for security reasons as a giant party rocks the nearby desert. Pyramids Director Zahi Hawass said the whole Giza plateau will be closed and security stepped up from the evening of December 30, 1999 through the last day of the […]

MITCH PHILLIPS, London | Thursday 12.45pm. SPRINGBOK number eight Bobby Skinstad hopes there would be more attacking rugby in the remaining games of the World Cup but feared it be the defences that would continue to dominate. Skinstad is famed for his adventure from the back of the scrum and his marauding runs were a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 6.10pm. SOUTH Africa, the only side never to have lost a World Cup match, can never be underestimated in major tournaments, Springbok wing Pieter Rossouw said on Tuesday. The South Africans face Australia in the World Cup semi-finals at Twickenham on Saturday and Rossouw believes they are hitting top form […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday said oil companies are free to sell their foreign exchange in the open market. The statement came just as the bank announced the commencement of a daily forex sale. Before now, only the CBN could buy forex from oil companies. “With effect from October 25, 1999, oil companies […]

A HIGH school student was shot dead and three others raped when a gang of gunmen attacked a group of students studying for exams at a school in KwaZulu-Natal. Police spokesman Captain Vishnu Naidoo said Themba Mlambo, 18, was killed and two fellow pupils were wounded when three gunmen opened fire on about 30 pupils […]

TWO-time US Open golf champ Payne Stewart was among five people killed when a Lear Jet crashed in the South Dakota hills on Monday after apparently flying out of control for 2400km at high altitude above the southern states of America. Air force F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the private plane as it […]

A CONTAINER ship is on Wednesday ferrying a six-year-old girl with a life-threatening disease from the tiny Atlantic island of St. Helena to Cape Town for emergency treatment. A clinic is on standby to treat little Danni Clifford, who has been provisionally diagnosed with the potentially fatal blood disorder aplasticanaemia, the Cape Argus newspaper reported. […]

TELKOM said on Wednesday that an independent audit has proved that consumers are not charged for telephone calls that engaged or unanswered. The audit comes after persistent accusations by consumers that Telkom bills customers for engaged and unanswered calls. Telkom said that the audit showed that 1,34% of the 11100 calls were logged as engaged […]

THE body of the third worker, missing underground since a rockfall at Bambanani Mine’s West Shaft on Saturday, was found on Tuesday morning, Anglogold spokesman James Duncan said. Duncan said the body was recovered at about 3am. The three miners were trapped after a rockfall caused by a seismic event at the mine near Welkom […]