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/ 15 October 2004
South Africa’s world number two Ernie Els said on Friday he will be defending his Heineken Classic golf title in Australia next February despite his conflict with the United States PGA Tour. ”You cannot believe the tone of the latest letter they sent me,” Els said. ”The US Tour needs to understand the golfing world has changed through the years.”
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/ 15 October 2004
Hundreds of families evicted last month from a farm outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, have been granted a reprieve. High court Judge Rita Makarau ruled in favour of Percy Masendu and 429 other settlers who had filed an urgent court application to have their eviction nullified. The settlers occupied the land under the reform programme in 2000.
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/ 15 October 2004
It will be at least three months before it is safe for Somalia’s new President, Abdullahi Yusuf, who was sworn in on Thursday, to go home. Even then he might opt to run his new government from somewhere apart from the country’s capital, Mogadishu. Exhausted negotiators are hailing his election last weekend as a breakthrough for a country that has been tearing itself apart for the past 13 years.
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/ 15 October 2004
”It is no secret that our ability to manage leadership succession in the movement and state structures is under a serious test.” This is an extract from an African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng document, which calls for the presidential succession debate to start. It has stirred a hornet’s nest. It also reveals the factionalism, careerism and other threats facing the party.
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/ 15 October 2004
Tiger Woods and his new bride were briefly held aboard their private yacht on Thursday by United States Coast Guard officers and then turned away from San Juan’s port because they had failed to notify authorities of their arrival ahead of time, an official said.
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/ 15 October 2004
Padmanabhan Krishna Murthy had only just arrived in London, but on Tuesday afternoon he had one matter on his mind: how to find Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery. Its inscription — ”Workers of all lands unite” — seemed an apt summary of the reason for his latest trip. But he corrected that suggestion: ”It’s not only workers. It’s people of the world,” he said.
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/ 15 October 2004
South African Retief Goosen rewrote the record books of the World Match Play Championship when he overran American Jeff Maggert 12 and 11 in their rain-hit first-round showdown at Wentworth on Thursday. While Goosen was wreaking havoc, fellow countryman Ernie Els was looking too strong for Scotland’s Scott Drummond.
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/ 15 October 2004
This was World Cup week, when club football takes a break and international football takes over. But scattered around Europe, while their compatriots are fretting over the latest bout of qualifying matches for Germany 2006, a worryingly large number of elite footballers will spend the time with their feet up and their minds at rest.
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/ 15 October 2004
“Memories!” Claudio Ranieri exclaims on his first day back in the city where he was loved so intensely and betrayed so pitilessly. “This is my first lunch in London since I leave Chelsea,” he laughs, “and they send us to a place called Memories! They start playing this sad but beautiful music when I walk through the door. What are they telling me?”
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