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/ 30 January 2004
For a meeting in which adversaries agreed on nothing more than to meet again, the talks between Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and the last rebel group under arms has been getting rave reviews. The warring Burundian forces have agreed to set aside differences and work at building trust.
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/ 30 January 2004
After fighting the longest civil war in Africa, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) is now fuming over the delay in negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.
Talks in the Kenyan town of Nairasha have been postponed until February 17 to allow Muslim negotiators such as Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha to attend the hajj.
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/ 30 January 2004
This is the seventh straight year that I have been in South Africa at matric time –either while students are frantically preparing for it as if their lives depended on the results, or while the results are being publicised, scrutinised and criticised in the press and other public forums with great drama. Both have become institutionalised cultural rituals that South Africa would best abandon.
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/ 30 January 2004
The manner in which this newspaper wrote the news before it happened last week (“The day rape was raped”, or, as it turned out, “The day after rape might have been seduced”) had nothing on the frenzy of pre-emptive journalism in the press box at Newlands on Sunday night.
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/ 30 January 2004
When the Gunners’ vice-chairperson, David Dein, popped over to spend £16,4-million on Jose Antonio Reyes in Spain on Wednesday, the moths in his wallet made a desperate bid for freedom. The once-bulging Arsenal piggy bank hasn’t been touched since Jens Lehmann arrived for £1,5-million in the summer.
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/ 30 January 2004
When the Football Association urged clubs to field their strongest teams in the FA Cup this week, there was one tie the governing body would not have been worrying about. Arsenal and Chelsea have been drawn to meet at Highbury for a quarterfinal place and it can be taken as read that neither will be putting out a reserve side.
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/ 30 January 2004
With his graceful stroke-play, Roger Federer is already a trendsetter for tennis’s new, anti-baseline-bashing generation. Of the four men’s semifinalists at this year’s Australian Open only Federer has never been the world number one — if he beats Juan Carlos Ferrero, he will become the 23rd man to reach this pinnacle since 1973.
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/ 30 January 2004
Cricket sage Hylton Ackerman has the knack of hitting more nails on the head than most, but there was an air of naïve redundancy in his on-air praise of Jacques Kallis this week. In almost subversive tones, as if postulating a notion that was revolutionary and risky,
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/ 30 January 2004
As José Antonio Reyes left Sevilla’s Sanchez Pizjuan stadium bound for London on Tuesday, hundreds of fans gathered to chant his name and jeer José Maria del Nido, the president who sold him. Even the huge transfer fee, which could rise as high as £20-million, was no consolation.
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/ 30 January 2004
Well, there’s a thing. Us fancy football fundamentalists all cram up on the African Nations Cup and proclaim Nigeria, Senegal and Cameroon as the clear favourites. Geniuses aren’t we? Thing is, for these three great African footballing powers, it very nearly is all over in Tunisia.