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/ 8 February 2005
South African under-17 national midfielder Michael Nkambule has joined the French first division soccer side Strasbourg. The Daveyton-based Nkambule impressed Strasbourg’s technical staff when he was in France late last year after training with the club for two weeks.
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/ 8 February 2005
The Democratic Alliance is unconcerned about Zimbabwe’s dismissal of the party’s plans to visit the country on a fact finding mission ahead of Zimbabwe’s March 31 general election, DA Africa spokesperson Joe Seremane said on Monday. Seremane said that anyone who knew Mugabe would not be surprised at this reaction.
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/ 8 February 2005
All-rounder Justin Kemp, who scored a whirlwind 57 in South Africa’s 108 run victory over England in the fourth Standard Bank one-day international at Newlands, said on Monday that he should not be described as the ”new Lance Klusener”.
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/ 8 February 2005
The electoral commission sworn in by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe last month to ensure fair elections in March has been established too late to ensure its success, according to a report released on Monday. The report states that ”with the best will in the world the new commission will not be able to improve Zimbabwe’s electoral system”.
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/ 8 February 2005
When race war finally breaks out in South Africa it will be about … wait for it … parking. It is parking that lies at the heart of one of Cape Town’s first equality court cases, in which a coloured family (they describe themselves as "so-called coloureds") are suing their white neighbours for R170 000 in damages.
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/ 8 February 2005
It watched the broken pieces of a comet crash, one after another, into the clouds of Jupiter. It peered at a dark patch of sky no bigger than a grain of sand at arm’s length for 150 orbits and spotted so many galaxies that cosmologists had to double their estimates of the size of the universe.
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/ 8 February 2005
Two suicide bombers struck in Iraqi towns on Monday, claiming at least 27 lives, in a return to the grim familiarity of insurgency just a week after millions of Iraqis flocked to the polls. It was the most violent day since the January 30 elections and signals that after a brief lull the attacks and kidnappings have restarted in earnest.
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/ 8 February 2005
Israel and the Palestinians are to announce a deal to end more than four years of bloody intifada, which has claimed more than 4Â 500 lives, with ceasefire declarations on Tuesday. On Monday night the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said both sides were close to finalising the wording of a deal.
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/ 8 February 2005
An enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials was apparently solved on Monday when an American former prison guard claimed it was he who, as an unwitting accomplice, passed to Hermann Goering the cyanide capsule with which the Nazi number two cheated the noose.
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/ 8 February 2005
Kenya’s top anti-corruption official resigned on Monday amid mounting international criticism of the government’s failure to take a firm line against high-level corruption. In a statement, John Githongo gave no reason for his decision, saying only he ”was no longer able to continue serving the government of Kenya”.