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/ 29 December 2004
South Africa snatched three wickets in the first hour and a half of the fourth day of the second Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test at Kinsgmead to make some inroads into the English batting order on Wednesday. England went to lunch on 366 for four, with a lead of 173 runs.
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/ 28 December 2004
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it was sending 31 tonnes of food to assist about 2 000 people in Somalia’s northern Hafuni island, which was battered by surging waves spawned by the mammoth earthquake off Indonesia.
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/ 28 December 2004
Tidal waves that hit Africa’s east coast, unleashed by a massive earthquake in southern Asia, killed at least 111 people – most of them in Somalia. The tidal waves hit East Africa’s shores on Sunday, triggered by a magnitude-9 undersea quake centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, about 4 500 kilometres across the Indian Ocean.
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/ 28 December 2004
More than 2 000 South Africans were travelling in the region of South East Asia hit by tsunamis, the South African department of foreign affairs said on Tuesday. Foreign affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said they had established that about 2 034 South Africa were in the region, of which four had been listed dead in Phuket, Thailand.
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/ 28 December 2004
The KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape coasts have experienced unusual tidal activity and sea currents in the wake of the earthquake that struck south-east Asia at the weekend which sent giant waves across large areas of the Indian Ocean. In the PE area one person is missing, believed drowned, as a result of higher than usual swells
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/ 28 December 2004
President Thabo Mbeki is to visit Sudan later this week, coinciding with the expected finalisation of a peace deal between the Sudan government and rebels by a Friday deadline. Mbeki will hold discussions on the peace process with his counterpart Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir.
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/ 28 December 2004
Allegations of fraud involving at least 2 000 papers written in this year’s matric year-end examinations were under investigation, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday. ”Information is streaming in, and the figure could rise,” said Superintendent Izak van Zyl.
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/ 28 December 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has left for Malaysia for his annual vacation, leaving the country’s newly appointed vice-president Joyce Mujuru in charge, state radio said Tuesday. Mujuru becomes the first woman to act as interim head of state and will be in charge until January 8, when Mugabe returns.
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/ 28 December 2004
Mourners in Sri Lanka buried their dead with bare hands today while rescue services struggled to reach areas of Indonesia still cut off from the rest of the world, two days after a tsunami devastated Indian Ocean coastlines and killed more than 50 000 people.