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/ 16 December 2004
Manning Rangers travelled all the way from Durban hoping for a win and three points against Wits University at Milpark Stadium on Wednesday night. But the Mighty Maulers had to settle for a point after their one-all draw. Wits remain eighth on the table. It was their eighth draw from 13 games.
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/ 16 December 2004
Bush Bucks shared the points with Dynamos in a two-all entertaining Castle Premiership league match at the Absa Stadium, East London, on Wednesday night. The home side were the first to settle down, giving the visitors an early scare. Bucks opened the score in the eighth minute.
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/ 16 December 2004
The women’s international water-polo tournament held at the Joan Harrison complex, East London, came to an end on Wednesday night with Russia unsurprisingly taking first place. They beat South Africa 21-1 in the final, in a game whose fate was sealed by the end of the first quarter.
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/ 16 December 2004
Mike Tyson closed the book on Wednesday on one of his many run-ins with the law: his brawl last year with two men outside a Brooklyn hotel. Wearing a pink button-down shirt, leather jacket and cap pulled low over his eyes, Tyson made his way through a clump of photographers and the occasional fan to a downtown Brooklyn courtroom.
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/ 16 December 2004
Rain delayed the start of the Western Province-Boland innings for close on three hours against the home side KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in their Standard Bank Cup cricket match at the Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, in Durban on Wednesday. It eventually went down to the Duckworth-Lewis method of decision.
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/ 15 December 2004
Shoddy service at the Yeoville police station in Johannesburg — experienced first-hand by a Gauteng provincial minister last month — is being attended to, the department of community safety heard on Wednesday. The minister had to intervene personally before a nine-year-old rape victim was helped, and her rapist arrested.
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/ 15 December 2004
The Sudanese government has agreed to stop a military offensive in Darfur province in a move that could prompt the two main rebel groups to end their boycott of African Union-sponsored peace talks, the chief AU mediator said on Wednesday. The rebel groups on Monday walked out of the latest bid in Abuja to resolve the Darfur conflict.
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/ 15 December 2004
Sales in Denmark of the anti-impotence drug Viagra and similar products are predicted to soar during the festive season, according to sex advisers and drug company spokespersons. In 2003, sales of such drugs increased 17% in December on the November figures, the group Danish Drug Information was quoted as saying in a newspaper.
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/ 15 December 2004
Mozambique’s ruling party and its presidential candidate, Armando Guebuza, have secured a landslide victory in polls to choose a successor to veteran leader Joaquim Chissano amid opposition outrage and demands for new elections. Opposition party Renamo and 20 smaller parties on Tuesday demanded fresh elections.