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/ 18 January 2004
Belgium turned the tables 2-1 on South Africa in the second men’s hockey Test at Hartleyvale on Sunday. Both teams played with urgency in a match fraught with controversy. The wind continued to blow, and both sides used the overhead ball liberally.
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/ 17 January 2004
The World Health Organisation confirmed on Saturday that a fourth person has died from bird flu in Vietnam and warned that a growing number of people are falling sick with respiratory illnesses. The outbreak has sparked an Asia-wide health scare and Vietnam has ordered the slaughter of more chickens.
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/ 17 January 2004
President Thabo Mbeki has declared parts of six drought-stricken provinces in the country disaster areas, the Department of Provincial and Local Government said on Friday. The disaster areas are in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, the North West, the Free State and the Northern Cape.
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/ 17 January 2004
Democratic Alliance leaders expressed regret on Friday at communications authorities for granting the SABC more time to respond to complaints of the live coverage of an African National Congress rally last weekend — citing the fact that the Inkatha Freedom Party’s election campaign launch and rally takes place this Sunday.
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/ 17 January 2004
There is a strong suspicion that a decomposed body police found on the Tradouw Pass, near Barrydale in the Western Cape, is that of missing Dutch exchange student Marleen Konings, police said on Friday. A 46-year-old man has been taken into custody, but not formally charged with Konings’ murder.
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/ 17 January 2004
It was recently ranked one of the top places to see before you die, but Cape Town now risks acquiring a new label as the capital of rip-off. Restaurants were accused on Friday of inflating prices by more than 1Â 000% in a frenzy of greed damaging South Africa’s tourism industry.
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/ 17 January 2004
The United States signalled on Friday night that it was ready to revise its plans for gradually handing self-rule back to Iraqis, following strong criticism of the process by the country’s most influential Shia cleric. US President George Bush summoned his top official in Iraq, Paul Bremer, for urgent talks on salvaging the US plans.
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/ 17 January 2004
Colonel Moammar Gadaffi of Libya has been buying complete sets of uranium enrichment centrifuges on the international black market as the central element in his secret nuclear bomb programme, according to stunned United Nations nuclear inspectors.
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/ 17 January 2004
Eighty thousand people from 130 countries at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, want to prove that they are not just noisy anarchists but can offer alternatives to create a fairer planet. Everybody is sure of what they are against. but nobody can say what precisely they are all for.
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/ 17 January 2004
In a barely audible voice, Michael Jackson on Friday pleaded not guilty to seven charges of lewd behaviour with a minor and two charges of supplying a minor with an intoxicating agent, in a densely packed courtroom in Santa Maria. Jackson was bailed until a hearing next month, but not before he had irritated the judge with his tardiness.