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/ 16 September 2004
Voluntary testing or mandatory testing? That is the question Aids activists and government officials are grappling with in Zambia, where about one million people have already died in the pandemic since the late 1980s. As a draft national Aids policy is still under discussion, lawmakers have yet to finalise their position on the matter of testing.
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/ 16 September 2004
This week’s strike by public servants revealed a terrain reshaped since the last action in 1999. For one, the level of public sympathy with strikers was notable — people want decent public services because they are making the connection between poor service and poorly paid civil servants.
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/ 16 September 2004
A missile-throwing incident at the AS Roma-Dynamo Kiev match overshadowed Bayer Leverkusen’s outstanding 3-0 victory on Wednesday over Spanish giants Real Madrid. Liverpool eased past last season’s Champions League finalists Monaco 2-0 and Manchester United were outclassed but came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Lyon.
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/ 16 September 2004
It’s probably fair to say that the plight of the Ogiek receives little attention on a continent with more than its share of political and economic crises. The Ogiek are ”one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer peoples of East Africa”, according to Survival International — an organisation that fights for the rights of indigenous communities.
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/ 16 September 2004
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of murder. Years of research and detective work at the site where Packer was stranded seem to support at least part of his story: that he only killed to defend himself from a member of their party who had slain his fellow prospectors and was making a meal of human flesh.
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/ 16 September 2004
South African lightweight boxing king Isaac ”Angel” Hlatshwayo has vacated his national title to challenge Lovemore Ndou for the WBA Pan Pacific junior welterweight title in Australia on October 16. Hlatshwayo, the proud owner of the coveted Old Buck Belt, was supposed to defend against Nigel Classen on September 28.
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/ 16 September 2004
Fanie Lombaard, the ”top gun” of South Africa’s team at the Athens Paralympics, arrived on Thursday for his fourth campaign at the Games since his country’s readmission to world sport at Barcelona 1992. Also there is 17-year-old amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who is in grade 11 at Pretoria Boys’ High.
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/ 16 September 2004
AS Roma’s Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev was suspended at half-time on Wednesday after Swedish referee Anders Frisk was hit with an object thrown from the stands and left the field with blood dripping from his forehead. Dynamo led the Group B match 1-0 at half-time.
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/ 16 September 2004
Santos moved up to the seventh spot on the Premier Soccer League log after defeating Lamontville Golden Arrows 2-1 at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night. Playing against a strong wind, Santos, did all the attacking but once again, could not convert the several chances they had. The visitors were quick on the counter attack but did not cause the home side much trouble.
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/ 16 September 2004
There’s nothing like patting yourself on the back (something Lemmer has given up doing as it puts his spine out of place) when no one else is willing to hand you the kudos. The African National Congress Premier of the Western Cape placed prominent advertisements in newspapers to mark the first 100 days of his government elected in April.