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/ 12 February 2005
President Robert Mugabe on Friday sharply criticised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying she was a ”slave” to white masters in Washington who had branded Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny. If Zimbabwe were indeed a tyranny, said Mugabe, ”the first person to lose his head would be Ian Smith”.
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/ 12 February 2005
Mark Thatcher’s luxury nine-bedroomed home in Cape Town’s plush Constantia Valley has been sold for a price which is the highest ever reached in the suburb, says the estate agent who sold it. The previous top price for a property in the upmarket Valley is understood to have been R16-million.
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/ 12 February 2005
The Pretoria High Court dismissed an application on Friday by former African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman for leave to appeal against dozens of fraud convictions. The judge ruled that another court was unlikely to come to a different conclusion.
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/ 12 February 2005
Were the SPCA to cram as many animals into a cage as inmates are packed into a prison cell, it would be prosecuted for animal cruelty, Pretoria High Court judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann said on Friday. Bertelsmann said the crisis in SA’s prisons has ”huge Constitutional implications for the whole criminal justice system”.
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/ 12 February 2005
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith said on Friday that it was ‘very satisfying’ to win the Standard Bank one-day series against England, after the South African team’s dismal performance in 2004, when they won only two out of 15 one-day matches.
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/ 12 February 2005
Arthur Miller, a giant of 20th century theatre still working into the 21st century, has died at his home in Connecticut, aged 89. Tributes poured in from the international theatre community, which had somehow assumed that the creator of an American archetype in Willy Loman, noble tragic hero of Death of a Salesman, would live and write forever.
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/ 12 February 2005
The shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown by the Los Angeles Police Department has sparked anger in the impoverished, largely African American community of South Los Angeles, and has left the US police department once again facing accusations of brutality.
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/ 12 February 2005
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, will confront militant leaders tonight to demand that they stop firing mortars and rockets at Israeli settlements and towns. Dozens of missiles were launched on Thursday after Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in separate incidents.
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/ 11 February 2005
A militant group of Manchester United fans this week threatened a renewed and potentially more violent phase of its campaign to keep Malcolm Glazer from taking control of the club. The group calls itself the Manchester Education Committee and has been responsible for ”direct action” against those it suspects of involvement in any takeover.
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/ 11 February 2005
Roman Abramovich has poured money into Stamford Bridge and his roubles seem to have duly delivered the championship. But is buying success best for the game? Here are two different views on the matter. Will Buckley doesn’t mind the money, while Ian Ridley presents the case against.