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/ 20 January 2005
Roland Schoeman of South Africa won the 50m freestyle on Wednesday at a short-course swimming World Cup meet, one day after setting a world record in the 100m individual medley. Schoeman won the 50 freestyle in 21,53 seconds at Eriksdalsbadet’s fast pool, beating Jason Lezak of the United States by 0,07 seconds.
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/ 20 January 2005
Kaizer Chiefs were lucky to get a point after their one-all draw with Dynamos in their otherwise ding-dong Castle Premiership match at FNB Stadium on Wednesday night. Amakhosi were a shadow of the mean club who whipped Bloemfontein Celtic 4-1 in a league match at the same venue over the weekend.
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/ 20 January 2005
Mamelodi Sundowns launched a powerful second-half comeback to beat Santos 2-1 in a Castle Premier League clash at Loftus Stadium on Wednesday night. Santos opened the scoring through Reuben Cloete, who took advantage of Sundowns’ sloppy defending as early as the second minute.
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/ 20 January 2005
Non-league minnows Exeter City bowed out of the FA Cup with their heads held high after making Manchester United sweat right to the end of their third-round replay on Wednesday night. It was not until Wayne Rooney’s 87th-minute strike completed a 2-0 win that the world’s richest club finally guaranteed their place in the fourth round.
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/ 20 January 2005
Former national cricket selector Hugh Page said on Thursday that he would have taken a chance and kept an injured Charl Langeveldt in the South African team for the crucial fifth Castle Lager/MTN Test against England, starting at Supersport Park on Friday. Titans fast-bowler Andre Nel will return to the South African cricket team for the last Test.
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/ 20 January 2005
Roger Federer’s credentials as one of the greatest tennis players of all time is still an open book. But his place among the sport’s elite is already established. When Federer plays Jarkko Nieminen of Finland in the third round at the Australian Open on Friday, the 23-year-old Federer will be looking for his 24th match win in a row — all on hard courts.
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/ 20 January 2005
A series of suicide car bomb attacks rocked Baghdad on Wednesday killing up to 26 people. At least four separate bombs went off within 90 minutes of each other in a coordinated strike. The United States military said 26 people were killed, although Iraqi officials put the toll lower at around 12 dead.
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/ 20 January 2005
Keep the ball straight and stay out of the rough, especially on the opening five holes. That, says defending champion Trevor Immelman, is the key to victory at this year’s South African Airways Open golf championship that begins at the Durban Country Club on Thursday.
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/ 20 January 2005
Shortcomings in the enforcement and the monitoring of fire control mechanisms, such as firebreaks in informal settlements, were acknowledged by the Western Cape government on Wednesday. This followed a devastating fire at Cape Town’s Joe Slovo settlement on Saturday which left 12Â 000 people homeless and caused the death of an infant.
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/ 20 January 2005
Due in part to the high-profile launch of Mark Shuttleworth’s new Ubuntu open-source operating system, more and more ordinary computer users are realising that there is life after Windows. To help them on their way, a new magazine, <i>Tectonic</i>, will be launched in South Africa in March.