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/ 13 January 2004
Corne Krige, Springbok World Cup captain and current Stormers captain, announced on Tuesday that he will be retiring from international rugby. ”I have given this a lot of thought and have discussed things through with my wife and family and believe this is the right decision for me,” said Krige.
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/ 13 January 2004
His suspension by the South African Football Association (Safa) was unlawful in terms of his service agreement, national soccer coach Shakes Mashaba contended in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. ”The agreement does not provide for or permit my suspension by Safa,” he said.
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/ 13 January 2004
With the African Nations Cup about to claim some of the continent’s brightest talent for the next month, the shockwaves are already being felt as the club-versus-country debate gets another familiar airing. However, this time round it’s more intense thanks to a new Fifa ruling.
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/ 13 January 2004
A six-member team from Fifa ended an inspection tour on Monday to evaluate Libya’s bid to host the 2010 World Cup. Libya has allocated -billion for the construction of eight new stadiums in six towns, and for other infrastructure works of renovation.
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/ 13 January 2004
Andre Agassi says tennis is a front-runner in the fight against drugs in sport and that he’d been tested 13 times in the past 12 months. The season-opening Australian Open in Melbourne has been overshadowed by a doping scandal involving Canadian-born Briton Greg Rusedski.
McEnroe gets tough on drugs
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/ 12 January 2004
Iden Wetherell, editor of the privately owned Zimbabwe Independent, and two of the newspapers’ reporters were released on bail on Monday after being held for a weekend in police cells. They were arrested after printing a report that President Robert Mugabe had ”commandeered” an Air Zimbabwe plane to go on holiday.
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/ 12 January 2004
Côte d’Ivoire’s former rebel leader Guillaume Soro was on Monday to hold talks in the main city Abidjan with President Laurent Gbagbo, sources said. Soro was absent from last week’s first extraordinary session of the full council of ministers since the former rebels launched a boycott of government meetings in September.
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/ 12 January 2004
Former Parmalat chairperson Calisto Tanzi, being investigated for alleged fraud at the food giant, has implicated the head of a leading Italian bank in several acquisitions, a newspaper alleged on Monday. Tanzi had alleged that he paid too much for a company under pressure from Capitalia because he owed the bank money, the report said.
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/ 12 January 2004
A decision by the guardians of 72 HIV-positive children to sue Kenya’s government for alleged discrimination in public schools appears to have struck a nerve in the East African country. Aids organisations say this trend may be widespread, and they are calling on the government to take action in the matter.
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/ 12 January 2004
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress cannot claim to have a well-managed economy in place although economic fundamentals on a macro-level have improved, says opposition Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille, reacting in a statement to the weekend ruling party’s election campaign launch.