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/ 6 September 2004
India saw off a Michael Vaughan-inspired recovery to beat England by 23 runs in the third one-day international at Lord’s in London on Sunday. But England still took the three-match series 2-1, a warm-up for the ICC Champions Trophy that starts on Friday, after seven-wicket and 70-run wins at Trent Bridge and The Oval respectively.
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/ 6 September 2004
Former anti-apartheid cleric Dr Beyers Naude was in a critical condition in the frail care unit at a retirement village in Johannesburg on Monday. ”My father is very ill due to his age. We don’t know what to expect,” Naude’s eldest son Johann said on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2004
Former anti-apartheid cleric Dr Beyers Naude was in a critical condition in the frail-care unit of a retirement village in Johannesburg on Monday. ”My father is very ill due to his age. We don’t know what to expect,” said Naude’s eldest son Johann on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2004
Sanzar said on Monday it wants the Super 12 rugby union competition expanded to 14 teams and an extra round of Tri-Nations Tests under a new broadcast deal being negotiated with media giant News Corporation. A Sanzar statement released by the Australian Rugby Union said South Africa and Australia would each have an extra team in an expanded Super 14 competition.
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/ 6 September 2004
Serena Williams left her opponent swinging at shadows, then Andy Roddick finished off his work with a 217kph fastball. Roddick and Williams easily aced their latest tests in the US Open on Sunday, serving notice that they are just warming up. Roddick overpowered Guillermo Canas 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.
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/ 6 September 2004
Italian Valentino Rossi, known as ”Il Dottore”, won the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday, racing the 28 laps of the 4,182km circuit in 46 minutes and 34,911 seconds into his fourth consecutive victory. Japan’s Makoto Tamada, who took the pole position, finished second with 46:40,022.
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/ 6 September 2004
Capetonians Graeme Solomon and Dawid Mocke triumphed over a desperately low river to win the Men’s Health/New Balance Breede River canoe marathon on Sunday. Solomon and Mocke finished the tough river marathon out of sight of runners-up Shaun Rubenstein and Michael Mbanjwa.
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/ 5 September 2004
President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday joined the global community in expressing condemnation of the horrific hostage drama at a school in Beslan, Russia this week. ”It is with great shock and sadness that we have learnt of the loss of lives in the incident in Beslan yesterday (Friday)”, he said in a statement.
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/ 5 September 2004
A total of 5 138 firearms, mostly illegal have been destroyed during an ongoing firearm operation since last year in the Western Cape. Police spokesperson Superintendent Riaan Pool said the ongoing operation started on September 2003 and has seen about 967 people being arrested for possession of illegal firearms.