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/ 15 October 2004
In a dusty house in Ogoniland, a picture of executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa hangs on the wall. Nearly a decade after his controversial death, the Ogoni people are embroiled in a new struggle. Local people accuse Casella, a company contracted by oil giant Shell to clean up a spill, of giving funds to Chief Fabian Gberesan of the Ogoni town of KDere, who pays gangs to attack his opponents.
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/ 15 October 2004
The Coca-Cola Cup is expected to provide soccer lovers with scintillating football for the next few weeks. At stake for the 16 premier league clubs participating in the tournament is the R2-million cheque on offer for the winners and a chance to take part in one of the continental cup competitions.
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/ 15 October 2004
The big question this week, away from the hurly-burly of the World Cup qualifiers, is: who is Christian Damiano? That’s what Southampton fans are wondering as their topsy-turvy season gets more confusing. Neal Collins also takes a look at the weekend’s soccer action.
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/ 15 October 2004
There are times, aren’t there, when you wonder if the whole world’s gone mad. Mass graves are being uncovered in Iraq and children are being shot on the streets of London, but the English media have been dominated this week by David Beckham’s admission that he had committed a professional foul.
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/ 15 October 2004
After a run of rotten results from the national cricket team, coach Eric Simons has resigned. Cricket South Africa and the United Cricket Board have reached mutually acceptable agreements with Simons and manager Tim Southey and their contracts will be terminated with immediate effect. A new coach is expected to be named later on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2004
South Africa’s world number two Ernie Els said on Friday he will be defending his Heineken Classic golf title in Australia next February despite his conflict with the United States PGA Tour. ”You cannot believe the tone of the latest letter they sent me,” Els said. ”The US Tour needs to understand the golfing world has changed through the years.”
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/ 15 October 2004
Hundreds of families evicted last month from a farm outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, have been granted a reprieve. High court Judge Rita Makarau ruled in favour of Percy Masendu and 429 other settlers who had filed an urgent court application to have their eviction nullified. The settlers occupied the land under the reform programme in 2000.
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/ 15 October 2004
It will be at least three months before it is safe for Somalia’s new President, Abdullahi Yusuf, who was sworn in on Thursday, to go home. Even then he might opt to run his new government from somewhere apart from the country’s capital, Mogadishu. Exhausted negotiators are hailing his election last weekend as a breakthrough for a country that has been tearing itself apart for the past 13 years.
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/ 15 October 2004
”It is no secret that our ability to manage leadership succession in the movement and state structures is under a serious test.” This is an extract from an African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng document, which calls for the presidential succession debate to start. It has stirred a hornet’s nest. It also reveals the factionalism, careerism and other threats facing the party.
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/ 15 October 2004
Tiger Woods and his new bride were briefly held aboard their private yacht on Thursday by United States Coast Guard officers and then turned away from San Juan’s port because they had failed to notify authorities of their arrival ahead of time, an official said.