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/ 30 January 2004
Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday that Australian cricket authorities should be the ones to decide whether Australia tours Zimbabwe in May and June. ”I respect in the end it is a matter for them,” Howard told a Melbourne radio station.
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/ 30 January 2004
Thirty-six hours can be a lifetime in politics. On Tuesday morning there were journalists all over London fine-tuning obituaries of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. By mid-afternoon on Wednesday the prime minister was being cheered so riotously that the Speaker had to threaten to suspend the British Parliament.
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/ 30 January 2004
A year after the fighting stopped in Côte d’Ivoire the West African country that was seen as a regional model appears to have descended into endemic violence and disorder. Kofi Annan has called for 6 000 peacekeepers to be sent there. However, the US, which pays more than 25% of the world organisation’s peacekeeping bill, looks unlikely to approve this.
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/ 30 January 2004
John Magnier is County Tipperary’s horse-racing patriarch. He has earned the respect he commands. Sir Alex Ferguson is similarly esteemed for his success and ruthlessness in his field, disposing of such Manchester United icons as Paul McGrath and Paul Ince.
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/ 30 January 2004
They ought to shift the tactics board from Carrington to the Old Trafford boardroom. The chairperson of Manchester United, Sir Roy Gardner, and the chief executive, David Gill, have to come up with a defensive formation and gauge their scope for counter-attacks.
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/ 30 January 2004
Manchester United’s chief executive David Gill and finance director Nick Humby held a crisis meeting in London this week to draw up responses to the 63 questions submitted by John Magnier and JP McManus, the club’s largest shareholders — United’s latest attempt to end the feud between the Irish pair and Sir Alex Ferguson.
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/ 30 January 2004
They are a club that have built their success on a twin policy of winning on the field while conquering the corporate world. But this week Manchester United, the world’s most financially successful club, could be plunged into one of the biggest crises in their history.
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/ 30 January 2004
South Africa’s men’s hockey team failed to turn heaps of possession into goals on their way to a 0-0 draw against the lower-ranked Canadians in Potchefstroom on Friday morning. After enduring a scrappy opening half South Africa upped the tempo, especially in the final quarter.
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/ 29 January 2004
More than 200 schools in Limpopo saw their dismal 17% pass rate in the preliminary matric examination last year surge to 73% in the final exam. This increase remains unexplained, and adds to existing controversy around the 2003 matric results.