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/ 20 December 2004
Argentinian Oscar Fullone is most likely to rejoin South Africa’s most expensively assembled football outfit, Mamelodi Sundowns. This follows speculation current coach Paul Dolezar is on his way out following a series of poor results in the past few days. Most recent was a shock 2-1 defeat by Black Leopards on Saturday.
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/ 20 December 2004
Manchester United soccer great Eric Cantona has joined the chorus of opposition to Malcolm Glazer’s intended takeover of the club. With Glazer reportedly putting together a second takeover offer some time this week, the French star told Man United fans on their own television station that Glazer should ”stay in America and buy Coca-Cola”.
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/ 20 December 2004
South Africa fought back brilliantly on the third day of the first Castle Lager/MTN Test against England at St George’s Park on Sunday to finish the day with a small lead and nine wickets in hand, with two days left to play. South Africa looked down and out at the end of the second day, with England on 227 for one.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former South African women’s hockey coach Ros Howell relinquished her post a week ago, but South African hockey officials have still not decided on a permanent replacement. A frantic search in the past few months has yielded little reward with few obvious local candidates, and now the net has been cast overseas.
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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.