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/ 25 February 2005
The chief executive and two senior managers of arms procurer Armscor have been suspended, the News24 website reported on Friday. They were told on Thursday to vacate their offices immediately, and were prohibited from speaking to employees or the media about the matter.
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/ 25 February 2005
Hunter S Thompson, at the age of 67, took his life with a gunshot to the head at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado.
Obituary
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/ 25 February 2005
Arsène Wenger has made a reputation for himself as the man who is
always looking the other way when things go wrong. When asked about any indiscretion on the part of his Arsenal players, the elegant Frenchman dances around the issue by saying: ”From where I was I did not see that.”
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/ 25 February 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Cellular is a movie that manages to refresh the clichés for long enough to provide a fun movie-going experience, and to keep the join-the-dots moralising to a minimum, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 25 February 2005
African National Congress stalwart Raymond Mhlaba died satisfied, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said at the struggle veteran’s memorial service in Pretoria on Thursday evening. ”He died satisfied that we are on course and are still committed to meeting the minimum demands of our people as stated in the [Freedom] Charter,” Zuma said.
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/ 25 February 2005
Raymond Mhlaba, who has died aged 85, dedicated his formidable talents to the struggle against apartheid. A member of the Rivonia group with Nelson Mandela, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but emerged to take office in 1994 after South Africa’s first democratic elections.
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/ 25 February 2005
Lower-division teams will have an uphill battle in the Absa Cup this weekend, with only four of the 16 ties pitting non-Premier Soccer League (PSL) sides against each other. But the Davids might surprise as a couple of the PSL Goliaths are playing poorly at the moment. In particular, Santos and Sundowns — both former league champions — look ripe for a fall.
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/ 25 February 2005
As the four South African franchises have one last go at winning the Super 12, the competition that gave southern hemisphere rugby its identity is being somewhat overshadowed by events elsewhere. The lobbying has begun for the right to host the 2011 World Cup and International Rugby Board chairperson Syd Millar is already accusing the Japanese media of misquoting him.
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/ 25 February 2005
The Libyan secret agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was moved on Thursday from his specially constructed ”Gadaffi’s cafe” cell to Greenock prison where he will be free to mix with other inmates. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has been in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow, since 2002, following his conviction in January 2001 of the murder of 270 people.
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/ 25 February 2005
Pope John Paul II on Thursday night underwent successful surgery to his windpipe after being rushed to hospital for the second time in a month with what the Vatican described as ”acute” respiratory difficulties. His spokesperson, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, said the 30-minute tracheotomy ”was performed and completed positively”.