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/ 19 January 2004
Trevor Immelman became only the seventh golfer in the history of the South African Airways Open to defend his title successfully as he played his way to a convincing three-stroke victory at Erinvale Golf Club on Sunday. Immelman closed with a 67, including a bogey at the last, to finish on 12 under par 276.
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/ 19 January 2004
Lawyers representing Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba and the South African Football Association (Safa) were expected to haggle all day over a financial settlement, the ousted Bafana Bafana coach said on Monday. The lawyer on Sunday rejected media reports that claimed Mashaba would receive a R1-million payout from Safa.
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/ 19 January 2004
The Big Easy had to work extra hard for his latest victory, holing a 9m birdie putt on the third playoff hole to defeat Harrison Frazar and become the first repeat winner of the Sony Open since Corey Pavin in 1987. ”A playoff at the Sony … it’s working out for me,” Els said.
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/ 18 January 2004
South Africa needs a democratic alternative to win the war against HIV/Aids, unemployment, crime, poverty and to prevent the consolidation of a one-party state, Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Sunday when he unveiled his party’s manifesto and election campaign in Durban.
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/ 18 January 2004
This year is shaping up as the year of prison reform in Swaziland, and Aids is the catalyst. ”We have come a long way in acknowledging the impact of Aids within prisons,” the head of Correctional Services said. Legal observers say this has resulted in an end to the denialism that previously characterised the debate about HIV in jails.
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/ 18 January 2004
Human rights activists in Zambia scored another victory recently when they got Parliament to outlaw corporal punishment in the country. Legal Affairs Minister George Kunda said corporal punishment went against constitutional provisions. But not all teachers are happy with the ruling.
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/ 18 January 2004
Thousands of people had to be evacuated from parts of Australia’s eastern states of New South Wales and Queensland at the weekend after days of torrential rain turned drought into floods, officials said on Sunday. The New South Wales state government on Sunday declared three districts natural disaster zones.
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/ 18 January 2004
The death toll in the building collapse at a construction site in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, has risen to three after the body of a missing man was found on Sunday morning, the city’s emergency services said. Two people were killed instantly and two were seriously injured after a wall collapsed at the site on Sunday morning.
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/ 18 January 2004
It could be the moment one of Hollywood’s last great taboos is broken: a sex scene between two hot young male actors. Finally, it seems, gay relationships are about to go mainstream at the movies. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are lined up to play star-crossed cowboy lovers in director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.
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/ 18 January 2004
Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by security agencies. In a terrorist manual published on the internet, Osama bin Laden says: ”After Iraq and Afghanistan will come the crusader invasion of Saudi Arabia. All fighters all over the world must be ready.”