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/ 13 February 2005
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former archbishop Desmond Tutu on Saturday offered to enlist the SA government’s help in Colombia’s peace process by asking Cape Town to invite rebel leaders for talks. The initiative was cautiously welcomed by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who spoke along with Tutu at an event in Cali.
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/ 13 February 2005
The American mafia has been dealt one of the biggest blows in its history with a revelation that a Godfather has turned informant. Joseph ‘Big Joey’ Massino, boss of the Bonanno family, is is the first official boss of a mafia family ever to violate the bloody code of omerta, the vow of silence that has lain behind the success of the brotherhood’s huge criminal empire.
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/ 13 February 2005
South Africa have clinched the Standard Bank one-day series, but they still have a point to prove in the final game at Supersport Park on Sunday. South African skipper Graeme Smith said that winning the series was very satisfying, but it would have been more satisfying to have won the sixth match and proved a point.
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/ 12 February 2005
In Playing at Home, John Aizlewood’s enjoyable if masochistic pilgrimage through an English league season, there’s a line that has always rankled. ”Thus Roy Keane, so thick that even other footballers must notice …” Admittedly the writer was describing one of Keane’s more infamous moments. But still …
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/ 12 February 2005
President Robert Mugabe on Friday sharply criticised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying she was a ”slave” to white masters in Washington who had branded Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny. If Zimbabwe were indeed a tyranny, said Mugabe, ”the first person to lose his head would be Ian Smith”.
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/ 12 February 2005
Mark Thatcher’s luxury nine-bedroomed home in Cape Town’s plush Constantia Valley has been sold for a price which is the highest ever reached in the suburb, says the estate agent who sold it. The previous top price for a property in the upmarket Valley is understood to have been R16-million.
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/ 12 February 2005
The Pretoria High Court dismissed an application on Friday by former African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman for leave to appeal against dozens of fraud convictions. The judge ruled that another court was unlikely to come to a different conclusion.
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/ 12 February 2005
Were the SPCA to cram as many animals into a cage as inmates are packed into a prison cell, it would be prosecuted for animal cruelty, Pretoria High Court judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann said on Friday. Bertelsmann said the crisis in SA’s prisons has ”huge Constitutional implications for the whole criminal justice system”.
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/ 12 February 2005
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith said on Friday that it was ‘very satisfying’ to win the Standard Bank one-day series against England, after the South African team’s dismal performance in 2004, when they won only two out of 15 one-day matches.
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/ 12 February 2005
Arthur Miller, a giant of 20th century theatre still working into the 21st century, has died at his home in Connecticut, aged 89. Tributes poured in from the international theatre community, which had somehow assumed that the creator of an American archetype in Willy Loman, noble tragic hero of Death of a Salesman, would live and write forever.