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/ 16 December 2004
Robin McGregor, former chief executive of well-known South African businessman Tony Cotterell’s Kempston Group, will finally face fraud charges four years after he was first arrested. McGregor is currently dealer principal of the Johannesburg-based Peugeot Commercial Centre, a division of Cotterell’s Ancott Trust.
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/ 16 December 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has been the subject of a heated debate in the United States and Europe in recent weeks, accused of an oversight in handling the Iraq oil-for-food programme. Allegations of conflict of interest in the Annan family concerning the initiative have also been made. Annan’s critics allege that he should take responsibility for the matter, as it happened on his watch.
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/ 16 December 2004
A tense 18-hour hostage drama in an Athens suburb ended without casualties on Wednesday night when two men who had hijacked a bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered to the police. The men, identified as Albanians, left the bus shortly after midnight with their hands on their heads after throwing shotguns out of the door.
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/ 16 December 2004
One of the world’s least-controlled abortion regimes will be tightened next month, when the Chinese city of Guiyang introduces a pilot programme aimed at halting the widespread termination of female foetuses. The new policy bans doctors from carrying out abortions on most women who are more than 14 weeks into pregnancy.
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/ 16 December 2004
Swaziland’s diminishing indigenous tree species will be exhausted within 20 years at the current rate of exploitation, nature conservationists warned this week. "This disappearance of Swaziland’s fuel wood is imminent in some areas, while other areas face the extinction of all indigenous trees in a matter of years, based on the rate of current consumption," said a leading nature conservationist.
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/ 16 December 2004
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is under pressure from its youth wing to rescind its decision to boycott Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections scheduled for March next year. ”We will be giving the dictatorship a blank cheque to run Zimbabwe the way they like for the next five years,” said former student leader and MDC MP Job Sikhala.
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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.