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FIFTEEN KILLED IN NIGERIAN VIOLENCE

AT least 15 people have been killed in a communal clash in southwest Nigeria as the West African country sinks deeper into crisis. According to Nigerian press reports, the violence on Monday in Owo in southwest Ondo State reflects a long-running struggle between factions laying rival claims to the traditional post of headman of the […]

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/ 7 June 2000

ELS NINTH ON PGA RANKINGS

SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els is ranked ninth in the world in the latest PGA international golf rankings. Els has had an up-and-down year, with his game just not hitting winning form. Tiger Woods leads the rankings, with David Duval second and Scotsman Colin Montgomerie in third spot. Zimbabwe’s Nick Price is the only other African […]

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/ 7 June 2000

Cronje absent as King probe begins

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.25am. TWO months after Hansie Cronje and three teammates were accused of match-fixing in India, public hearings got under way which should shed some light on how deeply corruption has penetrated South African cricket. Cronje did not attend the opening day’s hearing held by the King Commission, and a […]

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/ 7 June 2000

CLARK LOOKING STRONG FOR DURBAN

TOP Durbanite surfer Heather Clark has made waves in the sport this year and is riding the crest of the wave following two third-place finishes in the first three 2000 World Championship Tour events. Clark is considered to be one of the favourites to finish well at the international Mr Price Pro, which replaced the […]

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/ 7 June 2000

Canada will prove tough debut for rookie Boks

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Wednesday 12.30pm. DE Wet Barry, the exciting 21-year-old Stormers centre will make his Springbok debut in this Saturday’s one-off Test against Northern Hemisphere hardmen Canada in East London. Barry, who performed with distinction in the Super 12, will start on inside centre, partnering his Stormers midfield partner Robbie Fleck. The […]

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/ 7 June 2000

VAN DYK INCLUDED IN KIWI NETBALL TEAM

FORMER South African netball goalshooter Irene Van Dyk, who relocated to New Zealand earlier this year, was named in the New Zealand Silver Ferns netball side for their international programme which will kick off against Australia in the one-off Fisher & Paykel Cup test in Newcastle on June 20. Van Dyk’s eligibility to play for […]

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/ 7 June 2000

SOUTH AMERICA TO BACK SA 2006 BID

SOUTH Africa’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup is set to get a strong boost from South American nations, who will flock to its cause on the understanding that African countries will then vote for a Brazilian World Cup in 2010, the London Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The deal, to be sealed next […]

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/ 6 June 2000

W Bank blames media for Africa’s image

ONGERI JOHN, Dar Es Salaam | Tuesday 11.15am. THE Word Bank has blamed low levels of direct foreign investment in Africa on the constant negative reporting by Western media that portrays the continent as a “centre of misery and conflict”. World Bank African chief economist Alan Gelb said that the region’s growing economic reconstruction and […]

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/ 6 June 2000

R350m NBS FRAUDSTER NABBED

THE police said on Monday they have arrested a man on charges of involvement in a R350-million fraud involving NBS bank, in what they said is one of the biggest cases in the country’s history. “Vito Assante, a former bank manager from the NBS Kempton Park, was arrested on Thursday…for 108 charges of fraud to […]

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/ 6 June 2000

IMPERIAL SHARES SOAR AFTER SAA DEAL

SHARES in Imperial Holdings firmed on Tuesday after news that its aviation wing Safair has acquired and leased back South African Airways’ entire fleet of 13 Boeing 747-200 aircraft. By midday the stock was up 3,76%, or 200 cents, at R55,20 with 552303 shares traded. Imperial shares outshined the diversified industrial sector, which was last […]

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/ 6 June 2000

HYUNDAI SA GETS COMPETITIONS GO-AHEAD

THE Competitions Board has give Hyundai South Africa the go-ahead to sell vehicles repossessed by banks earlier this year from the brand’s previous owner, Hyundai Motor Distributors. The company’s managing director, Alan Ross, said it can now sell vehicles taken over by banks in the liquidation process. Hyundai SA has opened 35 dealerships nationwide over […]

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/ 6 June 2000

Gold crowns strong local markets

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange surged on Tuesday, the overall ending 1,52% or 114 points up. All counters finished strongly in positive territory, financials 1,52% or 146 points good and industrials 1,22% or 101 points better. Gold shares closed 2,08% or 21 points sharper. By late afternoon gold was trading […]

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/ 6 June 2000

Crunch time for Cronje

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Tuesday 12.50pm. THE King Commission probe into disgraced former South African cricket skipper Hansie Cronje’s involvement in match-fixing starts on Wednesday in Cape Town with 40 former and current players and officials expected to testify. Among those who will give testimony regarding Cronje’s alleged involvement in rigging matches are former […]

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/ 6 June 2000

CHILUBA SLAMS DRC REBEL LEADER

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba returned from a meeting with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila Monday to accuse DRC rebel rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba of failing to respect a ceasefire he signed last August. Chiluba told state television after meeting Kabila in the southeastern DRC city of Lubumbashi that Bemba’s Congo Liberation Movement (MLC) […]

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/ 6 June 2000

CHILDREN DIE IN STAMPEDE

FOURTEEN children were killed, and 67 others injured, when a rainstorm caused a stampede at an open-air amphitheatre in Addis Ababa. The tragedy occurred Monday at a remembrance ceremony in the Mega amphitheatre attended by thousands of schoolchildren to mark the second anniversary of Eritrea’s bombing of the Ayder school, in Mekele, 780 kilometres north […]

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/ 6 June 2000

Botha definitely knew, says De Kock

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 4.30pm. APARTHEID state assassin Eugene de Kock on Tuesday again fingered former president PW Botha as having sanctioned a bloody cross-border raid by police into neighbouring Lesotho in December 1985. De Kock, who led the raid which left 11 people dead, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the attack […]

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/ 6 June 2000

BILLITON IN CHINA MINING VENTURE

BILLITON has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with the LanPing Nonferrous Metals Company company to develop zinc deposits in China’s western Yunnan province. Billiton said the deal is the first commercial joint venture between the Chinese authorities and an international mining company. In terms of the agreement, Billiton will eventualy hold […]

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/ 5 June 2000

ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT MEETING WITH DR CONGO’S KABILA

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba flew to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday for talks with President Laurent Kabila focusing on the deployment of UN peacekeepers there. Government sources said the talks in Lubumbashi, would review a fragile ceasefire that officials say has largely held since April, when countries sucked into the war agreed a […]

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/ 5 June 2000

COACHES SLAM BAFANA AFTER 4-0 LOSS

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker slammed South Africa after a humiliating four-goal drubbing by hosts United States in the Nike Cup football tournament at the weekend. “We have been living in a dream world,” Barker said. “It is all very well defeating teams like Lesotho and Mauritius and believing we are super stars. “The […]

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/ 5 June 2000

Woolmer backs Cronje ahead of King commission

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Monday 3.15pm. FORMER Proteas coach Bob Woolmer says he believes fired national cricket captain Hansie Cronje has never been involved in match fixing, and that if this proved to be the case he should become eligible to play for his country again. Woolmer, who now coaches the English county side […]

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/ 5 June 2000

BUSINESSMAN TO BUILD COPY OF TITANIC

A SOUTH African multimillionaire will travel to Belfast on Friday to discuss the possibility of building a replica of the ill-fated Titanic passenger liner. The original Titanic, built in the Belfast shipyards, sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912. Despite that famous tragedy, businessman Sarel Gous is ready to spend 500-million […]

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/ 5 June 2000

STANBIC SHEDS LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS

BANKING group Stanbic is to sell its entire holding of 26658-million shares in Liberty International to The British Land Company. The sale, at 550p per share, is worth around R1,5-billion and comprises about 8,5% of Liberty International’s issued share capital. Stanbic said it does not consider the shares a core asset and the sale will […]

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/ 5 June 2000

BRITISH SAY S LEONE TROOP WITHDRAWAL TEMPORARY

FEAR is growing in the lush green hills around the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown, earlier the scene of fighting, as preparations gather pace for the withdrawal of British troops in 10 days’ time. Britain last month flew 800 soldiers into its former colony as rebels of the Revolutionary United Fronts (RUF) advanced on the city. […]

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/ 5 June 2000

SA FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPT ‘TOO WHITE’

SOUTH Africa’s foreign affairs department is to undergo a major shake-up because most senior positions are occupied by white males, the director general of the department, Sipho Pityana, said on Monday. “This is crunch time,” Pityana told journalists during a briefing on the activities of his department. He said he would not shy away from […]

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/ 5 June 2000

AERIAL SPRAYING TO DESTROY CANNABIS

POLICE chiefs in East Africa have endorsed a plan for aerial spraying to destroy cannabis plantations in a bid to combat drug-use and trafficking. Speaking at the end of a three day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s director for criminal investigations Adadi Rajabu said police chiefs from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania had recommended aerial […]

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/ 5 June 2000

SA CONTEMPLATING ARMS DEAL WITH CHINA

Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said South Africa might buy weapons from the People’s Republic of China. Speaking during his visit to China, Lekota said South Africa wanted to strengthen military ties with China. Lekota also said South Africa would sell weapons to China after the country had shown an interest in South African manufactured arms. […]

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/ 5 June 2000

POWERHOUSE PETELO RETAINS TITLE

ZOLANI Petelo, looking more muscular than usual, scored an impressive powerhouse victory over a very game Mickey Cantwell in Kent on Friday night. He thereby retained his IBF straw-weight world title for the fifth time. Cantwell made it clear from the opening bell that he had come to fight, unlike his compatriot Peter Culshaw who […]

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/ 5 June 2000

MOROCCO BEAT JAMAICA 1-0

HICHAM Zerouali scored in the 60th minute to give Morocco a 1-0 win over Jamaica on Sunday, earning his side a place in the final of the Hassan II tournament. In front of 70000 fans in Casablanca, Zerouali made the most of a fine cross by Salaheddine Bassir to rocket in a 15-metre strike and […]

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/ 5 June 2000

MAURITANIA GIVING SENEGALESE THE BOOT

SENEGALESE living in Mauritania have been given 15 days to leave the country. The secretary general of the Senegalese Association in Nouakchott, Ibou Badiane, said on Monday that he had been advised by police of the decision to kick Senegalese citizens out of Mauritania. However, had pledged that Senegalese citizens could leave “in all safety […]

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/ 5 June 2000

IMPERIAL GETS SAA FLEET

IMPERIAL group’s aviation wing Safair has acquired and leased back South African Airways’ entire fleet of 13 Boeing 737-200-Advanced aircraft. The deal is worth more than R500-million. It also makes Safair, with more than 40 aeroplanes under its wing, the largest aircraft leasing and charter company in Africa.