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/ 18 February 2004
The New Zealand cricket team has turned to modern technology to get their message across against the touring South Africans and the hi-tech wizardry appears to be paying dividends. Coach John Bracewell is using a walkie-talkie to pass on to boundary fielders information taken from video analysis of opposition batsmen.
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/ 18 February 2004
George Foreman has reached a -million deal to return to boxing for a fight celebrating the 30th anniversary of his epic bout with Muhammad Ali, promoter Don King said on Tuesday. Foreman said last week that he is interested in fighting again to show young people that there’s no reason to fear getting older.
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/ 18 February 2004
About 500 demonstrators from anarchist groups marched through central Athens late on Tuesday to protest massive security measures planned for the August 13 to 29 Olympics. Chanting ”Olympics for cash not ideals,” the black-clad youths held up traffic for about an hour.
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/ 18 February 2004
Up to 60 people were killed when runaway rail wagons loaded with sulphur, petrol and fertiliser derailed and exploded in northeast Iran, a top provincial official told state radio, contradicting an earlier toll of 200 people killed.
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/ 18 February 2004
Shakes Mashaba has a new coaching job as head of the Limpopo PSL outfit, Black Leopards, according to a report by the SABC on Wednesday. Mashaba was fired as the coach of Bafana Bafana a week before the African Nations Cup after taking his employers to court.
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/ 17 February 2004
A new variant of the Bagle internet worm, dubbed Bagle.B, was on Tuesday spreading quickly by e-mail throughout the world, internet security experts said. ”It was initially spread through spamming, which gave it a good start,” said Mikael Albrecht, with the Finnish Security firm F-Secure.
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/ 17 February 2004
An earthquake that struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed five people, damaged 60 homes and prompted many panicked residents to spend the night outdoors, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Papua province with an estimated magnitude of 6,8 killed three dozen people.
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/ 17 February 2004
The managing director of PSC Guaranteed Growths Limited Funds, Jack Milne, was sentenced to an effective five years’ imprisonment by the Johannesburg Regional Court on Tuesday in a fraud case involving R160-million. Three years of his eight-year sentence were suspended in terms of a plea-bargain agreement.
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/ 17 February 2004
Increased levels of awareness about Aids and the human immunodeficiency virus have resulted in a stabilisation in the HIV rate nationally, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. He said a recent antenatal survey showed a drop in the infection rate among South African youth under the age of 20, from 22% to 15%.