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/ 4 February 2005
Further allegations of police incompetence arose in the Pretoria High Court sex-crimes trial of advocates Dirk Prinsloo and Cezanne Visser on Friday. Prinsloo’s advocate, Piet Coetzee, questioned senior superintendent Rudi van Olst about several aspects of the search and seizure at the couple’s Raslouw, Pretoria, home and their arrest in 2002.
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/ 4 February 2005
Still feeling too sick to go on with his trial, lion murder accused Richard ”Doctor” Mathebula (41) on Friday asked the Phalaborwa Circuit Court for time to recover from the chest pains that have plagued him this week. ”This morning, I tried to consult with my client. He was not in a position to give me proper instructions,” said Mathebula’s counsel, Mathews Kekana.
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/ 4 February 2005
Goran Ivanisevic, the handsome Croatian who has been turning heads since he arrived in the Mother City on Monday, has a chance to record a career ”first” when he plays German Michael Stich in the opening match of the Cape Town Grand Champions 2005 tournament at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday.
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/ 4 February 2005
Veteran Springbok Sevens player Fabien Juries, who missed the first two tournaments of the current IRB Sevens Series because of an ankle injury, scored his 100th try against Scotland in South Africa’s 31-7 victory in the opener at the Wellington tournament on Friday.
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/ 4 February 2005
Arsenal defender Sol Campbell has the imposing aura of a great fighter who no one really knows. Yet in person, alone with him in a bare white-walled room, he soon emerges as the opposite of impassive or mysterious. Campbell tells Donald McRae about the depth of bitter feeling between the Gunners and their northern rivals.
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/ 4 February 2005
It wasn’t the quest for second place that made Manchester United giddy with ambition at Highbury on Tuesday. We already knew how they looked when all they have to scrap over is the runners-up position in the Premiership. In May of last year, they could not stir themselves to stop Chelsea from taking that berth and drew 1-1 with them at Old Trafford.
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/ 4 February 2005
While Dimension Data (Didata) billed 2004 as the year to stabilise and invest in growth, the dual- listed group’s CEO Brett Dawson told the investment community in London that 2005 is the year for profitable growth. He was speaking at Didata’s Investor Day seminar, attended by institutional investors and analysts on Thursday evening.
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/ 4 February 2005
”We don’t carry wimps in our team” — the words of Sir Alex Ferguson after the latest explosive meeting between Arsenal and Manchester United at Highbury. But for all the niggling, the diving, the needless nastiness, wasn’t it the most compelling 90 minutes of football you could wish to see?
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/ 4 February 2005
The Gauteng government has asked police to investigate the awarding of an information technology (IT) contract to Capstone 518 for the province’s ”Gauteng Shared Services Centre (GSSC)”, finance MEC Paul Mashatile said on Friday. The company Capstone 518 was contracted as sole provider of IT software services to the GSSC.
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/ 4 February 2005
World number six gold-miner Harmony Gold on Friday said it intends to serve its unions and staff associations with notices of compulsory restructuring over the next two weeks. Harmony said it will be issuing Section 189 notifications, which will result in the start of the legally required 60-day review period.