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/ 2 September 2003
Doped up on the tranquiliser Azaparone 11 glassy-eyed ”baby” elephants stood as still as a life-size frieze on a Lost City hotel wall inside their individual metal shipping crates. An operation that Swazi conservationists said saved the lives of these elephants was carried out in secret last week.
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/ 2 September 2003
Whether because major nobodies have won the last two major championships, or because a few high-profile Americans have been administered a miracle cure for xenophobia, the announcement of the teams for the Presidents Cup was hardly the acrimonious affair anticipated 12 months ago.
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/ 2 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s upper and middle classes need to realise that cheque books and credit cards alone will not buy them their freedom, says Thandi Chiweshe, a gender activist based in Harare. We can get manicured and pedicured all we want, but as long as the rest of this country is not at peace, our nail varnish will never dry.
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/ 2 September 2003
Johannesburg Water (JW) has made significant strides towards improving service delivery throughout the city. However, your correspondent, Ebrahim Harvey, (”Opaque transparency in water privatisation”, August 8) continues to resurrect issues that have been settled a long time ago.
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/ 2 September 2003
In a rain-interrupted match that ended more than six hours after it began, sixth-seeded Jennifer Capriati reached the US Open quarterfinals for the third straight year Monday by beating number 11 Elena Dementieva 6-2, 7-5. All four scheduled men’s fourth-round matches were postponed because of downpours.
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/ 2 September 2003
Real Madrid’s world champion striker Ronaldo’s dream is to match Brazilian legend Pele’s goals scored for the national side — but, he says, he does not want to be ”greater than the myth”.
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/ 2 September 2003
Defending champions Australia suffered a massive blow on Tuesday when influential No 8 Toutai Kefu confirmed he will miss this year’s Rugby World Cup due to a cracked shoulder blade.
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/ 2 September 2003
Mark Keohane, the Springbok rugby media liaison, quit on Tuesday, saying he could not be part of a squad that tolerated prejudice. Keohane’s resignation comes just days after the World Cup squad was threatened by a race scandal.
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/ 2 September 2003
Announcing his retirement from tennis to the massed ranks of the media was clearly a tougher prospect for Pete Sampras than many of his opponents had been.
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