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/ 27 October 1998
President Nelson Mandela is to meet the chairman of the Congolese Democratic Coalition, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.
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/ 27 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Tuesday 5.30pm. ANGOLA’S National Assembly on Tuesday opened debate on a ruling party motion to strip the “special status” accorded to discredited Unita leader Jonas Savimbi. The ruling MPLA wants to divest Savimbi as “leader of the main opposition” with the right to a 400-strong bodyguard, for his failure to respect […]
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/ 27 October 1998
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange climbed nearly 2% on Tuesday, helped by a steadily falling yield on the R150, well below 16% at 4pm, and a steady rand-dollar exchange rate. According to Quintus Kilburn of Barnard Jacobs Mellet, the steadiness of the European bourses — now fueled by a […]
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/ 27 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Tuesday 9.00pm. TWO days of talks aimed at ending the civil strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo ended Tuesday with the adoption, in principle, of a draft ceasefire agreement. A communique issued at the end of the talks said defence and foreign ministers from a dozen countries had also agreed […]
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/ 27 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.30pm. FORMER constitutional development minister Roelf Meyer, now deputy leader of the United Democratic Movement, has denied having anything to do with the lease of the World Trade Centre, now the subject of an inquiry by the Heath commission. SABC TV reported that President Nelson Mandela has instructed Judge Willem […]
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/ 27 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brits | Tuesday 6.15pm. THE 30 young elephants being held by African Games Services near Brits are not stressed or under-watered, according to Onderstepoort veterinary scientist Professor Henk Bertschinger. The elephants have been mistreated, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which wants the animals removed from African […]
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/ 27 October 1998
LANSANA FOFANA, Freetown | Tuesday 6.00pm. SIERRA Leone’s rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was sentenced to death last week for his part in a coup which briefly overthrew the elected government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, has failed to persuade the court to spare his life. Begging Judge Samuel Ademusu, Sankoh, who is believed to […]
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/ 26 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Monday 8.00pm. BISSAU, quiet after a week of heavy fighting, braced itself for the first meeting, set for early Tuesday, between President Joao Bernardo Vieira and his rival General Ansumane Mane. However the venue for the meeting, seen as essential to ending the four-month-old conflict in Guinea-Bissau, remained at issue on […]
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/ 26 October 1998
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00pm. GRIQUALAND West and former South African cricket skipper Kepler Wessels led his side to a stunning 30-run Standard Bank league victory over home favourites Gauteng at the Wanderers on Friday night. Wessels topped the boards with a polished 76 and his effort helped the diamond farmers to score 200/6 […]
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/ 26 October 1998
MIKE METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. LOCAL markets continued to weaken on Friday as Asian markets were sharply split and European and US markets continued a downward trend. The Nikkei lost 150 points and the Hang Seng gained 150, while European markets were down by varying degrees. The FTSE-100 was down 58 points at 15:48 […]