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/ 20 December 2004
Bloemfontein Celtic added woes to the troubled Jomo Cosmos when they beat them 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League match at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Phokeng on Sunday. Cosmos are hanging at second from the bottom of the log after they suffered their sixth defeat.
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/ 20 December 2004
Mamelodi Sundowns on Monday sacked coach Paul Dolezer. In making the shock announcement, Downs president and owner Patrice Motsepe named Argentinian Angel Cappa as his successor and also appointed fellow Argentinian Oscar Fullone as his new technical director.
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/ 19 December 2004
India’s textile and garment makers are cranking up capacity ahead of the lifting of global import quotas at the end of this year as they seek to cash in on a market in which the sky will be the limit. India is expected to be one of the winners of the phasing out of three-decade-old rules that have curbed exports of textiles and clothing from poor nations.
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/ 19 December 2004
Sudanese government forces on Saturday engaged in a fresh battle with rebel forces in southern Darfur, ignoring an ultimatum from the African Union to halt an offensive, an AU spokesperson said. Rebel negotiators have been insisting that they will not sit down with the government while its two-week-old offensive continues.
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/ 19 December 2004
The day Charmaine found out she was pregnant, a doctor told her she was HIV-positive. Devastated, she considered abortion, but opted instead to try an Aids drug called nevirapine to protect her newborn girl — now a healthy one-year-old ”miracle,” she says. Researchers now warn that taking a single dose of nevirapine during pregnancy can make mothers resistant to later treatment with the drug.
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/ 19 December 2004
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet suffered a stroke and was hospitalised on Saturday, just two days before an appeals court ruling on whether to uphold his indictment and arrest for crimes committed during his 17-year rule. Pinochet suffered a stroke ”with loss of consciousness”, the hospital director said in a statement.
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/ 19 December 2004
On the wooded heights north of Kanyababonga, a fetid stench rises from the corpses that have lain three days in the African sun. The traces of fighting between mutinous soldiers and the army in this eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are everywhere to be seen, and in the centre of the town what little was left has been pillaged.
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/ 19 December 2004
A large explosion was heard over Jakarta on Sunday after a suspected meteor was seen streaking across the sky over the Indonesian capital. The blast, which came as the country is on heightened alert after warnings of an imminent extremist attack, caused brief alarm but astronomers said it was likely a large meteor exploding as it fell to Earth.
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/ 19 December 2004
More than 2 000 Indonesian women washed their laundry together at a city square on Sunday to post a record and donate the clothes to orphanages, a news report said. At least 2 013 housewives took part in the open-air event in downtown Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city.