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/ 30 October 2003
England were fined £10 000 pounds and a member of their coaching staff given a two-match touchline ban at a hearing in Sydney on Thursday over the World Cup favourites’ fielding of a 16th player against Samoa. Tournament officials announced the punishment after a near-four-hour disciplinary hearing.
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/ 30 October 2003
Romania ended a disappointing World Cup campaign on a winning note by beating Namibia 37-7 in Launceston on Thursday in the Pool A wooden-spoon game. It was a rare taste of success for their French coach Bernard Charreyre, who learned in midweek that his contract would not be renewed.
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/ 30 October 2003
A Kaizer Chiefs striker has been arrested on charges of tampering with telephone lines at his home in the south of Johannesburg, police said on Thursday. A police spokesperson said Kabamba Musasa was arrested with Bubu Shiboko Emmanuel at their Camptonville townhouse on Wednesday.
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/ 29 October 2003
Polio vaccines recently administered in a nationwide campaign in Nigeria will undergo laboratory testing to calm fears the United States is using the immunisation campaign to sow Aids and sterility among Muslims. Ninety-nine percent of all new polio cases in the world are in Nigeria, Pakistan and India.
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/ 29 October 2003
A Zimbabwean magistrate’s court on Wednesday placed four directors of the independent newspaper The Daily News on remand, quashing a defence bid to have the charges against them dropped. The four are facing charges of contempt of court and publishing the newspaper without a licence.
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/ 29 October 2003
Several officials employed by the Eastern Cape provincial administration were arrested at their offices on Wednesday in connection with fraud and corruption charges. Numerous documents were also taken as evidence in fraud and corruption investigations involving R4,4-million.
R1-million govt fraud bust in KZN
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/ 29 October 2003
African countries must integrate if they are to overcome poverty, facilitate development and access international markets, Eastern African leaders said at a regional summit in Nairobi on Wednesday. The leaders were taking part in a one-day meeting about the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
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/ 29 October 2003
In a candid account in his new book <i>Nothing But the Truth</i>, a leading member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, Professor Ben Turok, has provided a new account of the battle within the party to accept the current economic policy, called Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear).
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/ 29 October 2003
The employee benefits industry in South Africa has, for the first time, a unified voice to represent its interests to other role players, following a merger of its two main representative organisations. The merger comes at a time of unprecedented
legislative and regulatory activity in the employee benefits industry.
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/ 29 October 2003
The Afrikaner-based Freedom Front Plus (FF+), which has three members of the South African National Assembly, has handed a memorandum to the office of President Thabo Mbeki protesting at plans to provide continue racial quotas for state learnership programmes that fall under the Department of Labour.