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/ 22 February 2005
Zimbabwean rebel cricketer Andy Blignaut has rejoined his country’s cricket squad and signed a contract, following his axing last year over a row about racial bias in selection, Zimbabwe Cricket said on Monday. Blignaut is one of 15 mainly senior players who were sacked after they demanded the reinstatement of former captain Heath Streak.
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/ 22 February 2005
Australia’s Adam Scott rolled home a three-footer on the first play-off hole to defeat Chad Campbell Monday at the PGA Tour’s rain-shortened Los Angeles event. Because inclement weather forced organisers to shorten the event to 36 holes, it won’t count as an official victory, although Scott did earn the full first prize of 000.
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/ 22 February 2005
Australian opener Matthew Hayden returned to his majestic best with a superb century as the world champions trounced New Zealand by 106 runs in the second one-day international on Tuesday. After being sent in to bat on a placid Jade Stadium pitch, Hayden lashed 114 off 124 balls, including 12 fours and two sixes.
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/ 22 February 2005
For years, it has been as much a feature for many fans of attending a match at Lord’s Cricket Ground as the Pavilion, the slope on the pitch and the Father Time weather vane. But this season, spectators wanting to reflect after a day’s international play in the Lord’s Tavern pub will, for the most part, have to drink somewhere else.
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/ 22 February 2005
Airlines spend as much as ,6-billion (â,¬1,2-billion) a year on mishandled baggage, a company that provides computer-tracking technology to the industry said on Tuesday. The main factors causing a bag to fail to arrive with its owner at the intended destination are growing passenger numbers and tighter security.
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/ 22 February 2005
With her predilection for lumberjack shirts and love of golf, the revelation that Marge Simpson’s sister Patty is a lesbian didn’t come as much of a shock to United States fans of the series. But not for the first time the show provoked fevered debate as it took a satirical look at the issue of gay marriage, lampooning middle America’s stereotypical view of lesbians along the way.
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/ 22 February 2005
Food and furniture retailer Shoprite has reported a 55,4% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months ended December 2004, to 60,6 cents from 39 cents a year earlier. The group said it envisages declaring an interim dividend of 22 cents per share, representing a 33,3% increase on the 16,5 cents declared at the interim stage in 2004.
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/ 22 February 2005
The recovery programme implemented by South African banking group Nedcor in 2004 is delivering tangible benefits as is evidenced by the vastly improved results for the past financial year, which saw headline earnings grow from R55-million to R1,45-billion. CEO Tom Boardman says the group has delivered on its commitment made to shareholders.
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/ 22 February 2005
More than 50 000 Khulisa investors are set to receive an estimated R98-million in loyalty bonuses for holding on to their shares in Telkom since its listing two years ago. The government will make good on its offer to investors that, for every five shares they bought during Telkom’s initial public offering, it will grant one free share as a loyalty bonus.
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/ 22 February 2005
It is the morning after Hunter S Thompson’s suicide, and I am reading loaded magazine’s recent interview with Iggy Pop. It begins: ”Iggy Pop! Shit man. I’m alone in a hotel room thinking I’ve overdosed on coke. Sweating. Thinking what the hell am I going to ask Iggy tomorrow afternoon. Two Valium and 14 hours later I am sitting in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont …”