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/ 10 October 2006
Australia’s injury plagued former world number one Lleyton Hewitt said on Tuesday he was not contemplating retirement and believed he could again reach the top ranking on the men’s tennis tour. ”I was number one or two only a year-and-a-half ago, so I feel like I can still get back up there,” Hewitt said at a press conference to launch January’s Sydney International.
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/ 10 October 2006
All tickets for the final of the Currie Cup championship between the Cheetah’s and the Blue Bulls have been sold on the first day, the Free State Rugby Union said on Monday. Spokesperson Liza-Anne Mould said they tried as far as possible to help all supporters with tickets on Monday.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Monday it supported statements made by South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Blade Nzimande after President Thabo Mbeki accused him of ”extraordinary arrogance”.
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/ 10 October 2006
The slogan for the PSL’s new Telkom Knockout competition promises ”it’s a whole new ball game” — and when it comes to cold cash it was patently clear the sponsors were not kidding when the tournament was launched in Johannesburg on Monday night.
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/ 10 October 2006
The state’s Marine Living Resources Fund is R45-million in debt from having R53-million in its coffers by the end of March 2005, media reports said on Tuesday. The fund’s travel and entertainment costs went up from just over R2-million in 2004/05 to R23-million in 2005/06.
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/ 10 October 2006
An attempted hostage-taking by a South African police officer backfired on Monday when he shot himself in the leg inside his boss’s office at a station near Cape Town. The incident happened when the 24-year-old constable held up his station commander and two other senior officers while he was on duty, police spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana said.
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/ 10 October 2006
An Australian scholar in his 90s successfully capped off his law degree this week, winning a race against time he feared he might not live to finish. Having compressed the demanding course of legal study from six years into just four-and-a-half due to his advanced years, Allan Stewart graduated to a standing ovation on Saturday.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Congress of South African trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Reserve Bank have agreed that a new industrial strategy to combat cheap Chinese imports was needed. Governor Tito Mboweni and Cosatu general Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi met on Monday night following remarks by the governor that the proposed Chinese import quotas made "no economic sense".
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/ 10 October 2006
The $20-billion initial public offer (IPO) of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the mainland’s largest lender, drew intense interest on the its opening day, reports said on Tuesday. The IPO — expected to be the largest to date — attracted a wave of international orders of up to $56-billion, according to reports in Hong Kong’s English-language press.
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/ 10 October 2006
A Pretoria man who dragged his dog behind his luxury car with a nylon rope earlier this year is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday. Oupa Jan Seemo (32) of Faerie Glen was convicted of cruelty to animals by the Pretoria Magistrate’s court on Monday. After its ordeal, the dog did not have a single pad left under its paws.