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/ 27 February 2004
Manchester United must hope Old Trafford is still capable of afflicting Porto with stagefright. Sir Alex Ferguson’s team did not suffer irreparable damage on Wednesday but, after another flawed performance and the 11th red card of Roy Keane’s career, they will need an exhilarating display to reclaim the European Cup.
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/ 26 February 2004
The treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe ended on Thursday but judgement was not expected for months. The year-long trial wound up with both the defence and state counsel wrapping up their arguments.
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/ 26 February 2004
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Thursday declined to be drawn on whether Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi would play a role in the post-April-election national Cabinet. Buthelezi has recently hinted that his term of office as minister may be coming to an end.
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/ 26 February 2004
British intelligence agents spied on United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraq war, a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Cabinet said on Thursday. Blair refused to say whether the allegation was true, but said the former minister had been ”deeply irresponsible”.
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/ 26 February 2004
The South African government would like to see Zimbabwe enjoy the same press freedom that existed in this country, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. He was addressing the Cape Town Press Club. ”We believe in press freedom,” Zuma said in a reply to a questioner.
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/ 26 February 2004
Homeless Talk, most often seen on the dashboards of the well-heeled from Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, is now going online. News provider I-Net Bridge said this week that it will be bringing the popular community newspaper to its subscribers at a cost of R500 a month.
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/ 26 February 2004
Tropical Cyclone Ivy cut a swathe through the centre of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, tearing down homes, ripping out trees and cutting communications with winds of up to 190kph. Two Taiwanese fishing boats in the harbor of the capital, Port Vila, were driven ashore by pounding seas.
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/ 26 February 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Companies should be involved in the funding of political parties in order to contribute toward a vibrant multiparty political system, Andre Fourie, CEO of the National Business Initiative, told the Johannesburg Press Club on Thursday. Fourie said, however, that there should be fair disclosure of donations.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
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/ 26 February 2004
Gay marriage, likely to become a hot issue in this year’s United States presidential election, stirs little emotion in Europe although few countries have accepted it. Even The Netherlands, the first state to legalise homosexual civil marriage on April 1 2001, still restricts the ability of gays to adopt children.