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/ 15 October 2004
Padmanabhan Krishna Murthy had only just arrived in London, but on Tuesday afternoon he had one matter on his mind: how to find Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery. Its inscription — ”Workers of all lands unite” — seemed an apt summary of the reason for his latest trip. But he corrected that suggestion: ”It’s not only workers. It’s people of the world,” he said.
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/ 15 October 2004
South African Retief Goosen rewrote the record books of the World Match Play Championship when he overran American Jeff Maggert 12 and 11 in their rain-hit first-round showdown at Wentworth on Thursday. While Goosen was wreaking havoc, fellow countryman Ernie Els was looking too strong for Scotland’s Scott Drummond.
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/ 15 October 2004
This was World Cup week, when club football takes a break and international football takes over. But scattered around Europe, while their compatriots are fretting over the latest bout of qualifying matches for Germany 2006, a worryingly large number of elite footballers will spend the time with their feet up and their minds at rest.
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/ 15 October 2004
“Memories!” Claudio Ranieri exclaims on his first day back in the city where he was loved so intensely and betrayed so pitilessly. “This is my first lunch in London since I leave Chelsea,” he laughs, “and they send us to a place called Memories! They start playing this sad but beautiful music when I walk through the door. What are they telling me?”
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/ 14 October 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has cancelled its Great South Africans TV programme two weeks after the series started, the national broadcaster announced on Thursday. ”We are going back to the drawing board on this one,” said CEO Peter Matlare.
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/ 14 October 2004
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has granted permission for Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille and the former chairperson of the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Gavin Woods, to appear in court as state witnesses in the trial of Schabir Shaik.
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/ 14 October 2004
A Ghanaian-registered cargo jet bound for Spain crashed shortly after take-off in eastern Canada on Thursday, killing all seven crew members, police said. The crew members on Thursday were all from South Africa and Zimbabwe, an airline spokesperson said. Some remains of the crew members have been recovered.
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/ 14 October 2004
Zimbabwean security forces are on high alert ahead of Friday’s expected verdict in the the treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi said, warning that outbreaks of violence will not be tolerated. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Democratic Alliance on Thursday called Tsvangirai’s trial ”a farce”.
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/ 14 October 2004
Themba Luke Radebe, one of four men accused of murdering members of two Benoni families in February, on Thursday accused the police of assaulting and torturing him to extract a confession. Radebe (44) told Judge Nico Coetzee in the Secunda High Court that a plastic bag was put over his head and kept there until he fainted.