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/ 30 November 2005
Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, who has been in power since 1967, was re-elected for seven more years after winning 79,2% of the votes cast in Sunday’s election, the country’s interior minister said late on Tuesday. Voter turnout was at 63,3% of the 570 000 Gabonese who were eligible to vote in the presidential contest.
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/ 30 November 2005
<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> She’s dropped the political posturing that grabbed headlines when she did <i>American Life</i>; <i>Confessions on a Dance Floor</i> is Madonna for the party people, writes Riaan Wolmarans. We also review Franz Ferdinand’s new release.
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/ 30 November 2005
South African athletes won four gold medals on the second day of the 2005 Pacific School Games in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Jan (JP) Hoffman, world youth shot-put champion and one of the top athletes at the meeting, won the discus for boys in the 17-to-19 category with a good distance of 48,43m.
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/ 30 November 2005
South Africa captain John Smit received a six-week ban in France on Tuesday for striking French counterpart Jerome Thion and fracturing his larynx in the 26-20 defeat last Saturday. Smit’s suspension — which he will not appeal against — will start on January 14 next year, the opening day of the new season in South Africa.
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/ 30 November 2005
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee have ruled he is no angel and fined Mamelodi Sundowns’ Argentinian coach, Angel Cappa, a whopping R50 000 for his role in a fracas with Supersport United coach Pitso Mosimane during the red-hot recent Pretoria PSL derby at Loftus Versfeld.
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/ 30 November 2005
Portugal’s football clubs have produced top players such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo, but they are facing their biggest financial crisis in years, which has left some teams struggling to stay afloat. The majority of the nation’s 18 premier league teams currently owe their players back wages of between one and five months.
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/ 30 November 2005
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has clarified events surrounding the runway closure at Cape Town International airport at the weekend that left passengers stranded, saying the closure of the runway was a precautionary measure to prevent any potential safety risks to flight safety.
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/ 30 November 2005
It is an odd place. The inhabitants include Plato, Moses, Abraham and lots of babies. Now, after more than 700 years of shadowy existence, limbo faces closure. Leading Roman Catholic theologians were meeting in the Vatican on Tuesday to discuss a document that would sweep the concept out of the church’s teaching.
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/ 30 November 2005
A convicted killer due to become the 1 000th prisoner to be executed in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 was reprieved on Tuesday night when the governor of Virginia commuted his sentence to life in prison. Robin Lovitt had been due to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2005
The Vatican on Tuesday tried a damage-limitation exercise in the wake of sexual scandals in the priesthood by insisting that homosexuals may not be considered for training or ordination unless their orientation is transitory and they have been celibate for at least three years.