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/ 15 October 2006
Springbok coach Jake White named four new call-ups to his 28 men squad while giving a few senior players resting time ahead tour to the United Kingdom at the end of the year. Free State Cheetahs fullback Bevan Fortuin, Blue Bulls flanker Hilton Lobberts, Lions centre Jaco Pretorius and Sharks flyhalf Francois Steyn are the four new members in White’s squad.
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/ 15 October 2006
Zimbabwe, shunned by the West, is trawling ever wider for business partners, but analysts say new deals are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits for the country. The Zimbabwe Central Bank summoned reporters to a press conference last week to attend the signing of a series of memorandums of understanding with Russian conglomerate Rusaviatrade said to be worth -million.
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/ 15 October 2006
Former president PW Botha was discharged from the George medi-clinic on Saturday, after going in for a ”routine check-up”, the hospital said. ”The family has asked not to reveal the nature of the tests but all results were good,” said hospital manager George Schutte.
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/ 15 October 2006
Indian police have made little headway in a probe into a 2000 cricket match-fixing scam due a problem in translating taped conversations in Afrikaans, a report said on Sunday. In 2000, police in New Delhi had filed a case against Proteas cricketers, including then captain Hansie Cronje, and middlemen for allegedly accepting money to influence the outcome of matches.
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/ 15 October 2006
A fundraising dinner in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, has raised more than R500 000 for African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. Among those attending were the provincial leadership of the ANC, provincial ministers, mayors and business people.
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/ 15 October 2006
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and weapons sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test in a resolution that Pyongyang immediately rejected. The US-drafted resolution said the reclusive communist state’s action was a ”clear threat to international peace and security”.
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/ 15 October 2006
A whopping 81% of computer software now in use in Africa has been pirated, costing governments and the high-tech industry billions of dollars in revenue and choking growth, experts warn. As the continent looks to information technology to help jumpstart development and reduce poverty, Africa must enhance and enforce intellectual property laws if it is to truly benefit from new innovations, they say.
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/ 15 October 2006
Just after midnight, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Johannesburg High Court Judge Zukiswa Tshiqi dismissed with costs the SABC’s application to have the Mail & Guardian Online remove a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster. ”I don’t believe that it is okay to suppress information or to hide information written in the report,” she told the court.
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/ 15 October 2006
In contrast to the United States government’s criminalisation of online gambling, the South African government is legalising the industry in an attempt to regulate and control it. Online gambling — said to be worth millions — is currently illegal in South Africa, but the Department of Trade and Industry has given a draft amendment Bill (which will allow for the licensing of online casinos in South Africa) to the Cabinet for approval.
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/ 14 October 2006
The Currie Cup was shared for the fourth time in its history when the Cheetahs and the Blue Bulls played to a 28-28 draw at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein on Saturday evening. Both sides earned the boasting rights for one more season after playing 100 minutes of rugby when they deadlocked at 25-25 after 80 minutes.