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/ 9 February 2005
A prize-winning track athlete who competed in women’s events was actually a man, a court in Zimbabwe has been told. Samukaliso Sithole, who competed in domestic and regional competitions, faced charges of crimen injuria, or psychological offence, in the second city of Bulawayo.
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/ 9 February 2005
The defence in the sex-crimes trial of Pretoria Advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo tried to stop the viewing in court on Wednesday of a police video showing naked pictures of Visser as well as Prinsloo’s ex-wife, girlfriends and other friends. The defence asked that a portion of the video showing the pictures contained in the so called ”red album” not be shown to the court.
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/ 9 February 2005
The bid by gold miner Harmony Gold for rival Gold Fields is "under water" and history shows that such a hostile offer has never succeeded, Gold Fields chief executive officer Ian Cockerill said on Wednesday. "In the history of hostile takeovers, 100% of all bids that are under water have never been successful," he said.
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/ 9 February 2005
Seventeen prominent Russian human rights activists called on President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to take up Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov’s call for negotiations to bring an end to the fighting that has raged in southern Russia for the better part of the past decade.
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/ 9 February 2005
Security at all Gauteng public hospitals will be reviewed, the province’s health department said on Tuesday, after the alleged rape of a terminally ill elderly woman in her hospital bed in a gynaecological ward at the Pretoria Academic hospital. The patient’s subsequent death was probably more to blame on her illness than the attack, the department said.
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/ 9 February 2005
At least 20 people, among them many children, were killed in Angola and scores more injured after a truck ploughed into a crowd of carnival revellers on Tuesday, Angolan media reported. The accident, in the city of Lubango in southern Huila province, happened when the vehicle appeared to lose control of its brakes.
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/ 9 February 2005
Catching up with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel said on Tuesday it will ship a desktop PC microprocessor that can handle significantly larger chunks of data than most of today’s chips. The new 600-series Pentium 4s are the first Intel desktop chips that support a technology called 64-bit memory addressability.
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/ 9 February 2005
South African cricket coach Ray Jennings said on Tuesday that he will apply for the position of coach if the players want him to. The position of coach is to be advertised later this week. Jennings was originally appointed on a short-term basis, until after the tour of the West Indies in March.
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/ 9 February 2005
Dynamos striker Sandile Ndlovu is anxious to wear the Bafana Bafana jersey for the first time against Australia in their friendly match in Durban on Wednesday night. The 24-year-old Ndlovu, who is on loan to Dynamos from Mamelodi Sundowns, is the only new Bafana Bafana recruit included in the team.
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/ 9 February 2005
Three wickets apiece for the Conrad XI’s (read Highveld Lions) David Terbrugge and Garnett Kruger did the most to restrict a Cook XI (read Highveld Strikers) to 230 for seven, and eventually help their team to a five-wicket victory — according to the Duckworth-Lewis method — in their 45-over friendly played at the Wanderers on Tuesday.