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/ 8 February 2005
German-based defender Bradley Carnell has withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad to play Australia at Durban’s Absa stadium on Wednesday night. Carnell, who plays in the German second division for Karlsruhe, pulled a leg muscle at the weekend. Last week, Dutch-based goalkeeper Hans Vonk was forced to withdraw from the squad.
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/ 8 February 2005
Struggling Manning Rangers are without a head coach following the sudden resignation of Ian Palmer on Monday. The former Orlando Pirates striker joined the KwaZulu-Natal outfit towards the end of last year on a two-year contract. He was offered a contract after two consecutive victories.
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/ 8 February 2005
Bush Bucks chairperson Sturu Pasiya is adamant that the Eastern Cape team will not be relegated at the end of the season despite languishing at the bottom of the log. ”We are definitely going nowhere. Bush Bucks will still be campaigning in the Castle Premiership next season.” said Pasiya from East London on Monday night.
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/ 8 February 2005
British sailor Ellen MacArthur broke a solo round-the-world sailing record on Monday with a time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds, her control team said. She battled stormy seas, gale-force winds, mechanical problems, a broken sail, burns, bruises and extreme exhaustion — even a close encounter with a whale.
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/ 8 February 2005
The desire of the South African government is that world number one diamond miner De Beers move its marketing arm, the Diamond Trading Company, from its base in London to Southern Africa, South African Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
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/ 8 February 2005
South African under-17 national midfielder Michael Nkambule has joined the French first division soccer side Strasbourg. The Daveyton-based Nkambule impressed Strasbourg’s technical staff when he was in France late last year after training with the club for two weeks.
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/ 8 February 2005
The Democratic Alliance is unconcerned about Zimbabwe’s dismissal of the party’s plans to visit the country on a fact finding mission ahead of Zimbabwe’s March 31 general election, DA Africa spokesperson Joe Seremane said on Monday. Seremane said that anyone who knew Mugabe would not be surprised at this reaction.
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/ 8 February 2005
All-rounder Justin Kemp, who scored a whirlwind 57 in South Africa’s 108 run victory over England in the fourth Standard Bank one-day international at Newlands, said on Monday that he should not be described as the ”new Lance Klusener”.
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/ 8 February 2005
The electoral commission sworn in by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe last month to ensure fair elections in March has been established too late to ensure its success, according to a report released on Monday. The report states that ”with the best will in the world the new commission will not be able to improve Zimbabwe’s electoral system”.
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/ 8 February 2005
When race war finally breaks out in South Africa it will be about … wait for it … parking. It is parking that lies at the heart of one of Cape Town’s first equality court cases, in which a coloured family (they describe themselves as "so-called coloureds") are suing their white neighbours for R170 000 in damages.