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/ 9 February 2004
It’s little wonder that club and country fought so fiercely for the services of Jay-Jay Okocha. The midfielder first reinvigorated Nigeria following a chaotic start at the African Cup of Nations. On Sunday, with the Super Eagles facing elimination against archrival Cameroon, he immediately did something about it — and how.
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/ 9 February 2004
A goal by South Africa’s top goal-scorer, Pietie Coetzee, steered the Spar South African national women’s hockey team to a stunning 1-0 victory over Spain in the final of the four-nation Olympic test tournament in Athens on Sunday. South Africa, ranked lowest of the four participating countries, ended the tournament unbeaten.
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/ 9 February 2004
Hellenic got their new life in Gauteng off to an inauspicious start with a dull 0-0 draw against Jomo Cosmos in a Premier Soccer League match at the Pam Brink Stadium in Springs on Sunday. The new owners of Hellenic were hoping to start their battle to avoid relegation with a win against Jomo Cosmos.
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/ 9 February 2004
Western Province virtually ensured themselves the top spot on the Standard Bank Cup log with a narrow win against Easterns before a crowd of more than 6 000 at Newlands on Sunday. That Easterns came so close was largely due to an explosive innings from Daryll Cullinan.
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/ 9 February 2004
Monsanto, the world’s largest genetically modified seed company, has been awarded patents on the wheat used for making chapatis — the flat-bread staple of northern India. The patents give the United States multinational exclusive ownership over Nap Hal, a strain of wheat whose gene sequence makes it particularly suited to producing crisp breads.
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/ 8 February 2004
Japanese ground troops crossed the Kuwaiti border into Iraq on Sunday, launching the historic first deployment of the Self-Defence Forces to a combat zone since World War II, unit commander Colonel Yasushi Kiyota announced. ”I wished the troops good luck,” Kiyota told reporters before crossing into Iraq.
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/ 8 February 2004
Equity Aviation has given the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union a 5pm Monday deadline to accept its latest wage offer to striking baggage handlers, company spokesperson Herman Fleischman warned on Saturday. Failure to do so will lead to Equity considering to approach its staff directly, he said.
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/ 8 February 2004
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday rejected the call by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi for a firmer grip on the leverage of power in the province. ”The polarisation of KwaZulu-Natal politics into two camps is a distressing and harmful development,” said an ACDP spokesperson.
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/ 8 February 2004
Her moving account of how she raised a captive lioness before returning her to the wild made Joy Adamson a legend way beyond the African bush. But the author of the bestseller Born Free was a tyrannical employer who fired live bullets at her black African staff, according to the man who was convicted of her murder.
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/ 8 February 2004
Across the United States last week thousands of Christian pastors and priests sat down in front of their television sets to watch a special hour-long broadcast on a Christian cable channel. The subject was The Passion, Mel Gibson’s controversial film about the death of Christ.