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/ 8 February 2004
Vuyani ”Beast” Bungu narrowly out-pointed Takalani ”Panther” Ndlovu over 12 energy-sapping rounds to win the vacant IBO featherweight title at Carnival City in Brakpan on Saturday night. Bungu’s deserved win enabled him to scribble his name in the history books by becoming a two-times world champion.
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/ 8 February 2004
Ernie Els saw an eight-stroke lead disappear in nine holes on Sunday but the Big Easy recovered for a closing two-over 74 to beat Australian Adam Scott by one shot and win his third straight Heineken Classic. Els finished with a 20-under-par total of 268 while Scott’s closing 67 left him at 19-under 269.
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/ 8 February 2004
Roger Lemerre finally got revenge for the most embarrassing day of his career on Saturday when he guided his Tunisia team to a bad-tempered 1-0 win over Senegal and into the semifinals of the African Nations Cup. In Wednesday’s semifinal, they will take on either defending champions Cameroon or Nigeria.
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/ 8 February 2004
Benedict Vilikazi scored three goals in five minutes to spur Orlando Pirates to a commanding 5-0 win over Dynamos in a fast-paced Premier Soccer League match at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday night. Bucs striker Bheka Phakathi scored a brace and midfielder Vilikazi scored a hat-trick between the 83rd and 88th minutes.
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/ 8 February 2004
Manchester United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy popped up to seal a dramatic 4-3 victory for his side at Everton on Saturday, after the champions had squandered a commanding 3-0 advantage from the first half. The Dutchman’s strike was his second of the game after he had hit his 100th goal for the Old Trafford Club.
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/ 7 February 2004
The Mail & Guardian Online on Saturday confirmed that former Sunday Times editor Mathatha Tsedu has accepted the editorship of the weekly City Press newspaper. Tsedu was dismissed from the Sunday Times after being accused of underperformance.
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/ 7 February 2004
The big worry in the bird-flu scare is that the virus, at present a low-scale killer, could mutate into a pathogen that could claim millions of lives. A mutated bird-flu virus erupted among humans in 1918, killing as many as 40-million people, and lesser pandemics occurred in 1957 and 1968.
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/ 7 February 2004
Doctors protesting in Cape Town on Friday against what they called the declining state of public health care were angered when they were prevented from marching to Parliament, as originally planned. The march was held to protest against, among other things, draft legislation that will prevent them from dispensing medication.
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/ 7 February 2004
A major aftershock rattled the northwestern Papua town of Nabire on Saturday, one day after a powerful quake killed 24 people in the same town. The National Earthquake Centre at the meteorology and geophysics bureau said the aftershock measured 6,2 on the Richter scale.
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/ 7 February 2004
Hail a taxi in New York City, and the odds are that your driver will be a wise-cracking male cabbie who’s unafraid to share his philosophy about life with you. But, do the same in Kampala, and you may just get a sharp female graduate who’s turned to taxi driving as a way of getting ahead in Uganda’s uncertain job market.