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/ 28 February 2006
It’s a rumour that has spread through Premier Soccer League soccer circles like wildfire. But the first official indication that top Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Calvin Marlin is heading from Supersport United to compulsive-spending Mamelodi Sundowns next season was provided on Monday by Brazilians coach Neil Tovey.
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/ 28 February 2006
The South African Football Association (Safa) technical committee has been mandated to ”secure” a coach for Bafana Bafana by mid-April. This was revealed on Monday night by Safa CEO Raymond Hack after a protracted meeting of the association’s executive.
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/ 28 February 2006
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has resigned, the Spanish first-division club confirmed on Monday. ”Real Madrid needs change and this is the right moment for me to leave the presidency,” Perez said at a press conference. ”I am convinced this is the boost the club needs.”
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/ 28 February 2006
Fast-bowler Glenn McGrath ruled himself out of Australia’s cricket Test series against South Africa for family reasons on Tuesday, Australian Associated Press reported. McGrath has chosen to remain in Australia to be with his wife, Jane, who is fighting cancer.
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/ 28 February 2006
Ethiopian officials announced on Tuesday that tests are under way at a southern poultry farm after thousands of chickens died of a ”bird-flu-like” disease. The fear is that the disease will turn out to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus that has killed more than 90 people, mostly in Asia, since 2003.
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/ 28 February 2006
Heavy rains in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, have caused several houses and shops in the town to be flooded, resulting in thousands of rands in damages, a municipal spokesperson said on Tuesday. Segale Pilane said a municipal task team was on its way to the affected areas to assess the extent of the damage.
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/ 28 February 2006
Free State rugby boss Harold Verster remains mum on reports that ousted South African Rugby Union president Brian van Rooyen had allegedly tried to bribe him, media reports said on Tuesday. Van Rooyen reportedly offered Verster R3-million and a Test match if his union switched allegiance to Van Rooyen before the presidential election.
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/ 28 February 2006
The European Union announced on Monday that it will pay €138,6-million in emergency aid to the Palestinian Authority, which is on the verge of financial collapse. Brussels insisted that only a small part of the money (€17,4-million) will go directly to the caretaker Palestinian government.
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/ 28 February 2006
China declared its first victory in a centuries-old war against the desert on Monday after a campaign to plant 12-billion trees in five years finally made a small green dent in an ocean of sand dunes and dustbowls. Every March, government leaders join three million people who take up shovels on tree-planting day.
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/ 28 February 2006
The head of the world’s nuclear watchdog declared on Monday night that he cannot give Iran’s nuclear programme a clean bill of health, blaming Tehran for frustrating almost three years of inspections and detective work by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency.