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/ 26 November 2005
More than 150 people were left destitute after a fire swept through the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa in the Western Cape on Saturday morning. Cape Town emergency-services spokesperson Johan Minnie said the blaze began in the early hours of Saturday and has since been extinguished.
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/ 26 November 2005
The present South Africa side should still be the one to represent the 1995 World Cup winners in the 2007 renewal, coach Jake White said on Friday. ”This is a squad that takes the sport really seriously, and given the history of the Springboks, the fans expect us to win,” he said.
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/ 26 November 2005
The ceremonial changing of the Bafana Bafana guard was enacted on Friday with canny former Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns coach Ted Dumitru predictably entrenched for the African Nations Cup — and Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala not so predictably clinging to the position of team general manager.
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/ 26 November 2005
Veteran defender Lindsey Carlisle celebrated her 200th Test cap with a neat goal that ultimately proved the difference as the Spar South African women beat Canada 1-0 in the fourth and final Test at the Tshwane University of Technology on Friday night. The result wrapped up a series whitewash for South Africa.
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/ 26 November 2005
The image of soccer genius and legend George Best as a compulsive extrovert and womaniser was refuted by two South Africans who knew the soccer genius and legend better than most. Best died on Friday at the age of 59 of a lung infection to his alcoholic-ravaged body.
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/ 26 November 2005
Ajax Cape Town had to wait until the 89th minute to claim victory in their Castle Premier Soccer League match played at the Athlone Stadium on Friday night. The home team were all over Black Leopards in the second half, but could not get the ball in the net. Finally, one minute from the end, Ajax were awarded a free kick from 30m out.
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/ 26 November 2005
The Eagles ran out 21-run winners of their opening Standard Bank Cup cricket match in Bloemfontein against the Titans in a game affected by rain. In Durban, the Dolphins edged home by 31 runs in a Duckworth-Lewis decision game against the Warriors. Thundershowers forced the match between the Lions and Cobras to be called off.
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/ 26 November 2005
A growing sex-abuse scandal is rocking the world’s largest national congregation of Catholics. This week, a Brazilian priest was given a lengthy jail sentence after a court heard extracts from a diary that read like a paedophile priest’s how-to manual. The signs of abuse will be of particular concern to the church hierarchy.
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/ 26 November 2005
Michael Brown, the bureaucrat who headed the United States’s response to Hurricane Katrina and himself became a symbol of man-made calamity, is going into the disaster-management business. He is setting up as a consultant, marketing his expertise on coping with catastrophe — natural and self-made.
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/ 26 November 2005
Poland’s new right-wing government on Friday risked a damaging confrontation with Russia when it published a Warsaw Pact map showing detailed plans for Soviet nuclear strikes against western Europe. Poland threw open the doors of its military archives to show how most of Europe would have been laid to waste in a nuclear conflagration.