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/ 20 January 2004
Formula one team bosses are considering boycotting Grand Prix races in Europe over new European Union rules relating to deaths on the track. Team chiefs fear the warrants could be used against them if a driver is killed. Eight EU member states, including Britain, Belgium and Spain, have already implemented the warrants.
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/ 20 January 2004
South Africa won the fourth cricket Test against the West Indies at Centurion on Tuesday by 10 wickets to clinch the four-match series 3-0. Requiring 46 for victory after bowling the Windies out for 348 on a rain-ravaged final day, Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs stormed to victory in just 3,4 overs.
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/ 19 January 2004
The Foundation for Human Rights said on Monday it will take steps to ensure that Judge Siraj Desai and his alleged rape victim will receive the appropriate support. The foundation partly funded a South African delegation to the World Social Forum in India, where it is alleged Desai raped a North West woman, also a delegation member.
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/ 19 January 2004
Political minnow the Moderate Independent Party kicked off its 2004 election campaign on Monday, aiming to capture five to 10 seats in the Western Cape provincial parliament. Party leader Malcolm Taylor said the decision on whether to contest the elections nationally will be decided within the next two weeks.
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/ 19 January 2004
An African National Congress statement on Monday addressed the party’s relationship of cooperation between itself and the New National Party. In the wake of media reports that the ANC has "turned" on its coalition partner in the Western Cape provincial government, the ANC said it is "committed to working with the NNP".
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/ 19 January 2004
Alleged nuclear weapons dealer Asher Karni was fired from a South African company last year after it emerged that he had been secretly trading under his own name, said National chairperson of the Jewish Board of Deputies and labour lawyer Michael Bagraim. Bagraim told the Mail & Guardian Online on Monday that he had dismissed Karni at a disciplinary hearing last year.
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/ 19 January 2004
Comedian Marc Lottering admitted at the scene of a car crash in Sea Point, Cape Town, that he had had ”too much to drink”, a Cape Town magistrate heard on Monday. Lottering was arrested then for alleged drunken driving and reckless or negligent driving.
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/ 19 January 2004
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder began an African tour on Monday with a pledge of more aid for Ethiopia and an announcement of funds for the African Union (AU) to set up an African peacekeeping training centre in Ghana. Schroeder’s trip is also scheduled to take in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana.
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/ 19 January 2004
They say only two things are sure in life, death and taxes, but rarely do they come together as in the case of the Finnish taxman who last week died at his desk and went unnoticed for two days. The 60-year-old auditor died last Tuesday, but it took his colleagues until Thursday to notice his demise.