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/ 21 October 2006
Arguably the best and worst goals of the soccer season will not go into the record books after the Premier Soccer League game at Bidvest Stadium on Friday night was called off after 57 minutes with Wits University leading Bloemfontein Celtic 2-1.
A fierce electric storm was ultimately responsible for the premature ending of the match.
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/ 21 October 2006
South Africa may withdraw from the Super 14 rugby competition after 2010, leaving room for a Japanese team, while Argentina could join an expanded Tri-Nations, reports said on Saturday. Support is flagging for the Super 14 provincial series in South Africa, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said.
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/ 21 October 2006
Sri Lankan navy boats destroyed seven Tamil Tiger vessels in a sea battle, killing at least 35 rebels, a naval spokesperson said on Saturday, as President Mahinda Rajapakse appealed for peace. Sri Lanka has seen a surge in violence in the past few months, raising doubts about the success of peace talks.
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/ 21 October 2006
The evangelical Christian right in the United States notched up a victory on Friday when the NBC television network decided to cut a crucifixion scene from footage of a Madonna concert to be broadcast next month. The five-minute scene was filmed during the singer’s recent Confessions world tour.
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/ 21 October 2006
On February 19 1945 Thomas McPhatter found himself on a landing craft heading toward the beach on Iwo Jima. Sadly, African-American Sergeant McPhatter’s experience is not mirrored in Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood’s big-budget, Oscar-tipped film of the battle for the Japanese island that opened on Friday in the US.
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/ 21 October 2006
About 160km from its source on the northern slopes of Mount Kenya, the great River Ngiro was just ankle deep on Friday as nomadic farmers walked through waters that have become the focus of conflict. Kenya’s second-largest river sustains big business for flower farms supplying United Kingdom supermarkets.
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/ 21 October 2006
Kim Jong-Il has apologised to China and reassured his powerful neighbour that he has no plans to conduct further nuclear tests, according to reports on Friday that suggest the North Korean leader is backing down in the face of unprecedented pressure from a historic ally.
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/ 21 October 2006
A bid to put medical scheme Pro Sano under curatorship was put on hold on Friday as legal teams sought to reach an out-of-court settlement. ”Pro Sano is pleased to announce that the matter with the registrar of medical schemes will be resolved in terms of a court order,” said Pro Sano chairperson Brian Jacobs.
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/ 21 October 2006
Criticism of the South African National Editors’ Forum by home affairs portfolio committee chairperson Patrick Chauke earlier this week was ”uninformed”, the Media Institute of Southern Africa and the Freedom of Expression Institute said on Friday in a joint statement.
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/ 21 October 2006
Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, wanted in the United States after being indicted this week for dodging millions of dollars in taxes, is filming a new movie in Namibia, an official said on Friday. A newspaper report claimed the movie’s producers were trying to delay his extradition until shooting had been completed.