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/ 18 October 1999
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 8.40pm SOUTH African flags, at half-mast after former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere died Thursday, will be raised when he is buried at the weekend, President Thabo Mbeki announced on Monday. The president initially ordered the flags to be lowered from Friday until Tuesday to honour Nyerere, who died of leukemia […]
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/ 18 October 1999
LIBYA and Russia signed an agreement on economic and trade cooperation on Thursday, Libyan state television reported. The agreement was signed in Tripoli by Libyan Energy Minister Abdullah al-Badri and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who has responsibility for his country’s military-industrial complex. Klebanov met Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi on Wednesday and gave him […]
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/ 18 October 1999
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 5.00pm LOCAL markets lost ground on Monday as it followed United States and world markets lower following Wall Street’s heavy losses on Friday. It was widely anticipated that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange would lose ground on the day after US markets tumbled 2,6% after after Federal Reserve chairman Alan […]
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/ 18 October 1999
MORNANTAU Hayward’s cricketing career received a new lease of life on Sunday as he achieved the first ten wicket haul of his first class career. The flame haired seamer snapped up four for 53 on the final day of Eastern Province’s Supersport Series match against Griqualand West at St George’s Park to signal his return […]
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/ 18 October 1999
EIGHT people were arrested on Sunday in connection with the death of a man suspected of raping a 16-year-old girl in Daveyton on the East Rand last week. According to police spokesman Inspector Eugene Opperman, the eight were part of a group, accompanied by the victim, who went looking for the rapists. Two suspects were […]
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/ 18 October 1999
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Monday 9.00am. AMAGLUG-GLUG, South Africa’s under-23 Olympic hopefuls, let a two goal lead slip away to draw 2-2 with favourites Ghana in the opening round of Olympic Games Group 2 qualifiers in Accra on Sunday. Daniel Matsau struck after 17 and 35 minutes for the under strength South Africans before Peter […]
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/ 18 October 1999
Former president Nelson Mandela arrived in Jerusalem on Monday on his first visit to the Jewish state.
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/ 18 October 1999
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 3.30pm LONMIN Plc pitched a lower revised offer for Ashanti Goldfields on Monday in a move which analysts say underlines the hedging problems facing Africa’s third largest gold producer. Ashanti said Lonmin has amended its offer to 16 Lonmin shares for every 27 Ashanti shares, down from the previous proposed […]
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/ 17 October 1999
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday 6.00pm. ZIMBABWE need to make 148 with nine second innings wickets remaining to avoid an innings defeat by Australia at the end of play Saturday in the one-off inaugural cricket Test in Harare. With Zimbabwe fighting back gamely the prospects of them making Australia bat again are still promising. After […]