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/ 26 February 2004
They say the wheels of Parliament turn slowly. Obviously no one told anyone in the hallowed halls of the resignation of Andrew Feinstein, the African National Congress MP who resigned as co-chairperson of Scopa as political pressure came to bear in the arms deal scandal way back in 2001. He is still listed as the member for the Sea Point constituency office.
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/ 26 February 2004
”When I recently read law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as a ”mature student”, I was struck by the widespread deference to authority, the all-pervasive atmosphere of rote learning, and the almost exclusive assessment by examination.” Rob Turrell comments.
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/ 26 February 2004
It is enough to make Lenin turn in his mausoleum, where he lies only metres away across Red Square. A Moscow businessman has bought a large stake in GUM, the legendary Soviet-era retail store in Red Square opposite the Kremlin, and plans to turn the symbol of Communist Party privileges into a supermarket.
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/ 26 February 2004
They slice through traffic on their motorbikes, racing each other at breakneck speed with one hand holding a cellphone. They listen to heavy metal, read Günter Grass and admire Tom Cruise. They don’t go to the mosque the way their parents did and they have given up on politics. A third of Iran’s 65-million people are aged between 15 and 30,
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/ 26 February 2004
A 10-man Wits University team held on for dear life to salvage a 1-1 draw in their Castle Premiership clash against Premier Soccer League champions Orlando Pirates at the Oppenheimer stadium on Wednesday night. Wits led 1-0 at half-time.
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/ 26 February 2004
Wednesday’s confirmation of an outbreak of African horse sickness in the Western Cape could deal yet another blow to racing and its allied industries, a specialist said on Wednesday. ”The ramifications of African horse sickness could be more serious than the equine flu was,” said Diana Husselmann, from the Thoroughbred in South Africa magazine.
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/ 26 February 2004
Former heavyweight champion George Foreman insists he has no agreement with anyone to make a comeback. Promoter Don King has said that Foreman agreed to a tentative -million deal, but the boxer told Houston television station KRIV on Wednesday night that there’s no verbal agreement.
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/ 26 February 2004
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith arrived in Auckland on Thursday in a defiant mood, promising a sudden change of fortune in the one-day series for the tourists. Trailing 1-3 in the six-match series, Smith’s side need to win Saturday’s one-dayer to avoid becoming the first South African team to lose a series against New Zealand.
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/ 26 February 2004
Manchester United slumped to a 2-1 loss at Portuguese champion FC Porto on Wednesday in the Champions League first-leg knockout stage, while Deportivo, Lyon and Chelsea all notched wins. Benni McCarthy netted goals in each half for the Uefa Cup champion after United’s Quinton Fortune opened the scoring.
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/ 26 February 2004
The first match of the lucrative Absa Cup soccer competition proved to be a rerun of last year as Ajax Cape Town ran out easy 3-0 winners over Dynamos at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday evening. In fact it was only the excellent play of Aime Kitenge in the Dynamos’ goals that kept the score down.