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/ 6 December 2004
South Africa’s rugby coach Jake White said on his return from Argentina on Monday morning that a committee of conditioning experts will be appointed to look into the overall capacity of the Springbok rugby team. White and his weary squad arrived in Cape Town after their annual end-of-season tour was concluded on Saturday when the South Africans defeated an under-strength Pumas side 39-7 in Buenos Aires.
Argentina complains of ‘lack of respect’
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/ 5 December 2004
Over 500 people were arrested on the East Rand over the weekend, mostly for offences related to drunk and disorderly behaviour, police said on Sunday. Most of the arrests, made in Springs, Kwa- Thema, Boksburg and Alberton, were related to selling liquor without a licence and drinking or being drunk in public, said police spokesperson Superintendent Andy Pieke.
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/ 5 December 2004
Wealthy Americans seeking immortality now have the option of being reincarnated as a work of art. For the sum of 000, aficionados of the great American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright can be buried in one of the last of his works to be completed: the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.
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/ 5 December 2004
Zimbabwe’s ruling party on Saturday elected longtime Cabinet minister Joyce Mujuru as the country’s first woman vice-president at the end of a party congress. Welcoming her election President Robert Mugabe hinted that Mujuru may be destined for higher office. ”When you choose her as a vice-president, you don’t want her to remain in that chair do you?” he asked the delegates amid applause.
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/ 5 December 2004
If you live long enough, you get to see the world turn — or turn upside down. After a lifetime spent watching and living through the abrasive, competitive relationship between Australia and Britain, I can vouch for that. Growing up in the southern state of Tasmania in the 1950s, I measured the expanses of water on the map and wondered why we had been dumped at this forlorn global extremity. Plotting my escape, I played Monopoly — enabling me to buy and sell Piccadilly.
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/ 5 December 2004
The message has been consistent: Israel believes the United States-backed road-map is the way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has been repeated by Ariel Sharon and by ministers, yet now government papers suggest that Israel intends to bypass the peace plan, creating a Palestinian state of enclaves, surrounded by walls and linked by tunnels and special roads.
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/ 5 December 2004
It sounded like the plot of a horror film. Eight deer hunters become hunted themselves, by a lone gunman. Only two injured survivors live to tell the tale. This was no movie, however, but a real killing spree that has stunned the United States. And its seriousness does not end with the echo of gunshots in a Wisconsin forest. The massacre has raised the prospect of ethnic strife and revealed a link to a bloody, forgotten sideshow of the Vietnam war.
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/ 5 December 2004
The gunmen made Mohammed Aadam lie with his face in the dirt while his sister was being raped. He had been sitting in his hut that morning, playing cards with friends, when the Janjaweed attacked. ”The Janjaweed were shooting and people from the village were running into the forest,” said Aadam, aged 23.
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/ 5 December 2004
South Africa launched five tries in the first half-hour and cruised past Argentina 39-7 in a rugby international at Velez Sarsfield on Saturday. The Springboks led 36-0 after 30 minutes then loosened their grip and could add only a second-half penalty by fullback Gaffie du Toit, who finished with two tries in a 24-point haul.