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/ 13 October 2004
Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe have booked their place in the season-ending Masters Cup Doubles tournament in Zimbabwe. Black and Ullyett won the Nasdaq-100 Open and ATP Masters Series in Hamburg and have made the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams in 2004.
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/ 13 October 2004
The Springboks insisted on Tuesday that they are taking their November match against Wales seriously despite not planning to arrive in Britain until three days before the Millennium Stadium clash. The tight schedule means the South Africans will only have two training sessions before facing Mike Ruddock’s men in the opening game of their European tour on November 6.
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/ 13 October 2004
One year after the once-undetectable steroid tetrahydrogestrinone was revealed, athlete banishments without positive tests have put lawyers with doctors at the lead of the doping fight. International Olympic Committee medical director Patrick Schamasch said in Indianapolis on Tuesday that the Balco steroid scandal’s major legacy is opening the door to non-analytical positives when testers cannot outwit dope-cheat developers.
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/ 13 October 2004
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has blasted David Beckham for shaming the game for his decision to seek a yellow card during England’s clash with Wales on Saturday. The Real Madrid midfielder claims he set out to pick up his second booking of the current World Cup qualifying campaign after suffering a rib injury earlier in the Old Trafford match.
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/ 13 October 2004
Log leaders Orlando Pirates are planning to show Bloemfontein Celtic the stars during their Castle Premiership match at Ellis Park on Wednesday night. According to Pirates striker Gift Leremi, the youthful Free State side should brace themselves for one of their worst defeats since the start of the season.
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/ 12 October 2004
A 17-year-old high-school student from North Carolina in the United States faces a possible 30 days in jail after school resource officers arrested him for using foul language with a teacher. Ashley High School student Glenn Gattis said he used bad language after he got in trouble with the teacher for being late to class on August 25.
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/ 12 October 2004
Cameroon’s main opposition parties called on Tuesday for the Central African country’s presidential election — which veteran leader Paul Biya has been widely tipped to win — to be annulled, saying it was marred by rampant fraud. One opposition presidential candidate called the vote ”a masquerade, with overt fraud throughout the country”.
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/ 12 October 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has welcomed the election of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as Somalia’s transitional president and pledged that the world body will fully support efforts to restore stability in the war-torn Horn of Africa country. The election was held on Sunday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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/ 12 October 2004
The Noupoort Christian Care Centre (NCCC), the controversial drug rehabilitation facility, is to ask the High Court to review a decision by Director General of Social Development Vusi Madonsela to close it down. The NCCC’s attorney said the NCCC has been treated unfairly by the department and will oppose its closure ”all the way”.