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/ 24 October 2003
United States President George W Bush this week sought, on a flying visit to Indonesia, to mend fences with the Islamic world but faced harsh criticism of his Iraq and Middle East policies when he met three of the country’s moderate Muslim leaders.
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/ 24 October 2003
New Zealand became the first nation through to the quarterfinals with a 91-7 demolition of Tonga in Friday’s World Cup Pool B match at Suncorp Stadium. Caleb Ralph, Mils Muliaina and Doug Howlett scored two apiece as the All Blacks crossed for 13, while Leon MacDonald scored a try and landed a 12 conversions from 12 attempts for a 29-point haul.
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/ 24 October 2003
Athens, and the Olympic Games, is where Banyana Banyana and the men’s under-23 team would like to be next year. But to get there, Banyana need to go through gruelling elimination rounds, while Amaglug-glug have to come out tops in Group D, which also contains Algeria, Zambia and Ghana.
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/ 24 October 2003
Pakistan seamer Shabbir Ahmad (2-25) perfectly filled the shoes of banned speedster Shoaib Akhtar Friday as South Africa was restricted to 108 for three at lunch on the first day of the second cricket test.
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/ 24 October 2003
Samoa captain Semo Sititi said his side were relishing the prospect of taking on World Cup favourites England in Sunday’s Pool C match at Docklands. ”To us, as players, it will be the game of our lives,” said back-row Sititi Friday after the team had been announced.
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/ 23 October 2003
I fell in love with Nedbank as a student in the mid-Nineties, when it was a bank for ”people who are serious about money”. Then, last year, I fell out of love with the bank when it launched its ”Who are those people?” campaign. This held up obscene opulence as desirable.
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/ 23 October 2003
In an attempt to clear his name, Deputy President Jacob Zuma has launched his own informal investigation into allegations that he was involved in corruption in the government’s multibillion-rand weapons procurement programme. This emerged after Zuma held a briefing about two weeks ago for African National Congress members in KwaZulu-Natal to protest his innocence and to drum up support.
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/ 23 October 2003
A donors’ conference to help war-ravaged Iraq opened on Thursday in Madrid amid high hopes of important financial pledges, but United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan made clear that such contributions would not amount to a wholesale endorsement of United States policies in Iraq.
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/ 23 October 2003
The African National Congress on Thursday issued a press statement regarding the position of Deputy President Jacob Zuma with regards to the Hefer Commission of Inquiry, which concludes that there is no reason for Zuma to appear before the commission.
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/ 23 October 2003
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday kept up the pressure around the saga of South Africa’s ”sex pest” envoy to Indonesia. Ambassador Norman Mashabane was found guilty at an internal disciplinary hearing on 21 workplace sexual harassment charges, and a new sex complaint was lodged against him in July.