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/ 21 February 2006
The two expats of the Cheetahs, All Black centre Keith Lowen and Samoan hooker Trevor Leota, look set to play for the Free State Cheetahs in their Vodacom Cup match on Friday in Brakpan against log leaders the Falcons. Lowen and Leota practised with the Cheetahs on Monday afternoon.
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/ 21 February 2006
For a few hours at least, all the news about Austria was good. Skier Benjamin Raich claimed his first Olympic gold medal and Michaela Dorfmeister won her second in a week to rescue the country’s image on Monday amid a doping scandal that keeps escalating around a banned former coach and his desperate bolt from the Winter Games.
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/ 21 February 2006
The threat of more rain-triggered landslides slowed the search on Tuesday for survivors in an Philippine elementary school buried by up to 35m of mud when a mountain collapsed on a village last week. Rescue teams used sensors in an effort to detect sounds and movements similar to those monitored on Monday.
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/ 21 February 2006
Acclaimed South African writer Antjie Krog was embroiled in a plagiarism row on Monday after a leading academic accused her of stealing concepts and translations from other authors. Krog, the author of Country of My Skull, said allegations that she lifted material from a range of writers are an attempt to destroy her.
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/ 21 February 2006
David Irving, the discredited historian and Nazi apologist, was on Monday night starting a three-year prison sentence in Vienna for denying the Holocaust and the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Irving, who appeared in court confidently on Monday morning, immediately vowed to appeal against the sentence.
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/ 21 February 2006
As gays and lesbians become more visible in South African townships, they are increasingly becoming targets of homophobia, according to rights activists. The organisations were reacting to reports at the weekend of the murder of a young lesbian in a township in Cape Town.
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/ 21 February 2006
The Danish cartoons row refuses to go away, reverberating with sound and fury at different levels across the Islamic world. That primarily reflects the deep affront felt by many Muslims. But it is clear that the uproar has deeper causes that Westerners and Muslims ignore at their peril.
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Even if there is a problem at midnight, people should be able to go to their councillors’ houses and wake them up to sort it out, President Thabo Mbeki told supporters at an African National Congress election rally in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Monday.
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/ 21 February 2006
Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela has sacked provincial youth commission chairperson Mlungisi Lumka and youth commissioner Nonkuselo Nkayitshana, her office said on Monday. The working relationship with the commissioners had ”irretrievably broken down” after the publication of articles and advertisements by the commission.
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/ 21 February 2006
Metrorail on Tuesday again appealed to train commuters in Gauteng to use alternative transport as the strike by Transnet employees entered its second day. Spokesperson Brenda Motau said a partial service would again be offered during the morning peak, supplemented by buses where possible.