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/ 5 September 2004

Equatorial Guinea to question Thatcher

State prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea have requested permission to question Mark Thatcher over his alleged involvement in a coup attempt on President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The prosecutors would only gain access to Thatcher once his legal team had examined the list of questions they want to ask him.

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/ 5 September 2004

Telkom to cut 7 000 jobs, says union

Solidarity says Telkom is planning to shed more than 7 000 jobs over the next three years and not 4 100 as it has been claiming. In a statement released on Saturday Solidarity spokesperson Dirk Hermann said a commission of enquiry into proposed job cuts at Telkom had found that 7 600 jobs would be shed.

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/ 5 September 2004

When hell came calling at Beslan’s School No 1

For Borik Rubaiv and hundreds of other pupils at Beslan’s Middle School Number One, it was to have been a celebration of the first day of the new school term. Parents carried flowers and teachers wore their best clothes. It was some of the older children who noticed them first — a masked group quickly crossing the railway tracks that run behind the school.

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/ 5 September 2004

Why Bush’s man is fighting dirty

There has been a fundamental shift in the presidential race. Bush’s offensive has left Kerry’s campaign floundering. Last week, he shook up his top staff, bringing in Clinton era experts. He also went negative, too, lambasting Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney for dodging Vietnam. For Democrats that means Kerry, at last, has come out swinging.

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/ 5 September 2004

EU renews threat of sanctions on Sudan

The European Union (EU) has renewed a threat to slap sanctions on the Sudanese government if it does not do more to rein in militias in the western Darfur region. Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot welcomed some progress on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, but lamented that security remains a problem.

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/ 5 September 2004

SA athletes fair badly in Brussels

The fifth TDK Golden League meeting of the year in Brussels produced two new world records but, following the failures at the Olympic Games, for South Africa’s representatives it was not a good meet on Friday evening. Most of the athletes looked tired after the hectic period in Athens.

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/ 5 September 2004

All Black team faces growing exodus

The All Blacks are set to lose a cornerstone of their Test pack, with 42-Test veteran prop Kees Meeuws to take up a European contract at the end of the year. Media reports have linked Meeuws to a French club and it is understood the loosehead prop was leaving the country for lifestyle reasons.