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/ 9 November 2006
The blunders of befuddled referee Charl Theron and a potentially horrific injury to Orlando Pirates goalkeeping prospect Senzo Mayiwa cast a pall of apprehension over the Buccaneers’ 2-1 Premier Soccer League victory over luckless AmaZulu at Ellis Park on Wednesday night.
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/ 9 November 2006
Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll wants his side to use their November programme, including this weekend’s Test against the Springboks, to assert themselves against southern-hemisphere opponents and banish any lingering sense of inferiority they may have heading into next year’s World Cup in France.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Williams Formula One team has hired Japan’s Kazuki Nakajima as a test driver to work alongside race drivers Nico Rosberg and Alex Wurz. Nakajima, who is currently racing in the Formula 3 Euro Series, joins India’s Narain Karthikeyan as a Williams test driver in preparation for the 2007 season that starts in Melbourne in March.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Director General of Correctional Services, Linda Mti, has resigned, a government statement said on Thursday. It said the national commissioner quit at the beginning of the month. Johannesburg police on Tuesday confirmed that Mti had recently been arrested for drunken driving.
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/ 9 November 2006
Democratic Republic of Congo presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba says there have been irregularities in the publication of partial results from the election. Results from districts published by authorities since the October 29 election are different from results ”in our possession”, said a spokesperson for Bemba’s party.
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/ 9 November 2006
A pair of mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field while young men were playing a game in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, as more than 60 people were killed in attacks nationwide. United States forces also said they killed 14 suspected insurgents, detained 48 and rescued a kidnapped Iraqi policeman in a pair of raids outside Baghdad.
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/ 9 November 2006
Convicted fraud convict Schabir Shaik handed himself over at the Durban High Court around 8.30am on Thursday. The Durban businessman, also convicted of corruption, was expected to arrive at Durban Westville Prison later in the morning to start serving a 15-year jail term.
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/ 9 November 2006
A Port Elizabeth school approached the high court to get the Eastern Cape’s education department to decide on the fate of two boys caught with dagga, the school’s principal said on Thursday. On Wednesday the school received the department’s decision, dated November 3, not to expel the boys, its principal said.
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/ 9 November 2006
Johannesburg businessman David Rosen’s fatal fall from the sixth floor of the Michelangelo hotel last year was suicide, Business Day reported on Thursday. It said this conclusion from an inquest into Rosen’s death ended a murder probe into the incident, and lifted a cloud off former Corpcapital director Nic Frangos.
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/ 9 November 2006
Mobile number portability should finally break the stranglehold on the industry by Vodacom and MTN, says Jeffery Hedberg, chief executive of Cell C. "The playing fields have just not been level. Vodacom with its Telkom parent was given a massive head start by being allowed to be first to this market," he said.