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/ 29 December 2003
On the back of fine centuries from Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten, and aided by staggeringly sloppy fielding, South Africa shut the West Indies completely out of the second cricket Test at Kingsmead on Sunday. At stumps on day three, the Windies had moved to 18 without loss, barely denting the huge deficit of 394.
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/ 29 December 2003
South African boxing has emerged from 2003 drenched in the candy-coated rhetoric of behind-the-scenes controversies and soaked in the heady aroma of bittersweet victories. Add to that the plethora of outstanding successes and one can surmise that boxing in this country is alive and well.
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/ 29 December 2003
The 46-member South African rescue team arrived in Iran on Sunday to join a massive international rescue effort and lend assistance to Iran following a devastating earthquake in the country’s historic fort city of Bam on Friday.
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/ 29 December 2003
Wayne Rooney grabbed the headlines again on Sunday when he came off the bench to score the only goal of the game to give Everton a 1-0 win over Birmingham at Goodison Park. It was the teenage striker’s third goal in four matches and took his tally for the season to four and his short Everton career haul to 10.
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/ 29 December 2003
Rangers kept their fading hopes of retaining the Scottish Premier League title alive with a clinical 2-0 win at Dundee on Sunday. Goals from Portuguese midfielder Nuno Capucho and left-back Michael Ball ensured a comfortable outing for Alex McLeish’s side.
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/ 29 December 2003
Australian supermaxi Skandia sailed to a pre-dawn victory in the Sydney-Hobart yacht classic in Hobart on Monday, finishing just 14 minutes ahead of its New Zealand rival, Zana, after a neck-and-neck duel that began on Boxing Day. The pair were virtually abreast in the final stages.
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/ 28 December 2003
"The brief is tough, tougher than I expected. To write about the next generation — the youth of today, the people of tomorrow — is to write about a world of different, very different, worlds. I start on the lush lawns of Innesfree Park in Sandton on a Sunday afternoon." Nawaal Deane investigates the state of the youth today and tomorrow.
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/ 28 December 2003
A suspected case of deadly ebola fever has been reported in Zimbabwe’s prime resort of Victoria Falls, state media said on Sunday. Specimen samples have been taken and sent to a laboratory in South Africa for tests after a trader from Angola died at the town’s main hospital on Christmas Day.
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/ 28 December 2003
In the biggest rebel attack since the December 13 capture of Saddam Hussein, suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted coalition military bases and the governor’s office in the southern city of Karbala in Iraq. Six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian died.
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/ 28 December 2003
Investigators tentatively traced the first United States cow with mad cow disease to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the American beef industry. Some calves in a quarantined herd of 400 that included a male offspring of the sick cow likely will be killed.