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/ 14 September 2005
A contingent of 42 members of the South African Police Service left from Lanseria airport on Wednesday morning to perform duties in Sudan, police management said. This would bring to 85 the number of SAPS members doing duty in various parts of Sudan, said the office of national police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 14 September 2005
Argentine striker Carlos Tevez’s complaints about bad soccer refereeing in Brazil were taken personally by some women who are threatening to sue him for discrimination. Tevez said in a televised interview last week that Brazilian league referees often persecuted Argentine players, and criticised the female line judges in Corinthians’ 3-2 loss to Sao Paulo in the Brazilian national championship.
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/ 14 September 2005
South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje will not be offered an amnesty from police investigations into match-fixing if they tour India for a one-day series in November. Delhi police charged Gibbs and Boje, along with South African captain Hansie Cronje, with match-fixing during a tour of India in 2000.
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/ 14 September 2005
Around 2 000 Eritrean refugees have fled alleged repression into neighbouring Ethiopia since January, bringing their population in camps there to nearly 10 000, the UN food agency said on Tuesday. Most of the refugees are aged between 18 and 30 and are fleeing compulsory national service, political repression and economic problems.
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/ 14 September 2005
Officials and Aids organisations are working to provide care to the nearly 8 000 HIV-positive people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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/ 14 September 2005
The profile of well-heeled South Africans is changing dramatically and financial institutions need to recognise these changes and accommodate them, according to the CEO of First National Bank (FNB) Private Clients, Eric Enslin. He was speaking at the introduction of FNB’s new private-banking initiative on Wednesday.
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/ 14 September 2005
First-half goals from Florent Sinama-Pongolle and Luis Garcia on Tuesday earned defending champion Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Real Betis in a Champions League Group G match. Striker Sinama-Pongolle scored in the second minute after he controlled a long ball from acting captain Jamie Carragher and delivered a deft chip over Betis goalkeeper Toni Doblas.
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/ 14 September 2005
At a time when Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have tried to figure out how to retire from tournament golf, Rosie Jones thought she had it made. The 13-time winner has said this would be her final year on the United States LPGA Tour, and it appeared to be a perfectly scripted farewell.
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/ 14 September 2005
South African construction and building materials company Group Five on Wednesday announced that economic empowerment rating agency Empowerdex has given its proposed black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction a score of more than 80%.
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/ 14 September 2005
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) will try to keep services going during a pay strike that began on Wednesday. The CCMA said that while it cannot guarantee services, a large number of CCMA commissioners are engaged as independent service providers and are not party to the dispute.