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/ 10 February 2007
The Stormers slumped to a humiliating 22-3 defeat to the Western Force in their Super 14 match at Newlands on Saturday night. Kobus van der Merwe and his side had spoken all week about improving on last week’s crushing loss to the Cheetahs, but this was an even worse setback on their home field.
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/ 10 February 2007
A goal in each half gave Santos three valuble points when they beat Benoni United in a match played at the Athlone Stadium, Cape Town, on Friday. Rain throughout the match resulted in both sides slipping and sliding on the field. Santos were by far the leaders and easily stayed in the visitors’ half.
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/ 10 February 2007
The Sharks register a second successive home victory in the Super 14 rugby championship at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Friday night as they beat the Waratahs 22-9. They landed four penalty goals and a drop goal to three penalty goals before scoring a try three minutes from the end.
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/ 10 February 2007
Rain was the winner in the third MTN one-day international between South Africa and Pakistan at St George’s Park on Friday, when no play was possible in South Africa’s innings. Pakistan made 245 for eight in their rain-interrupted innings, but the sell-out crowd did not get to see whether South Africa would be able to chase down the runs.
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/ 10 February 2007
Close family and friends of late African National Congress stalwart Adelaide Tambo started gathering at her home in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, on Saturday for a private valedictory service, media reports said. A procession was to leave her home later for Wattville Stadium on the East Rand, where thousands were expected to attend her funeral.
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/ 10 February 2007
This Valentine’s Day, one publisher wants you to be the one doing the romancing. Canada-based Book by You says it sells thousands of personalised romance novels each year with titles such as <i>ER Fever</i> and <i>Pirates of Desire</i>, where the reader is the star.
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/ 10 February 2007
A miner found a 143-carat diamond in a river in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and sold it for ,4-million, an industry official said on Friday. Amos Maseko discovered the stone in a river near Banalia, 129km north of Kisangani, where usually only diamonds of between one and three carats are to be found.
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/ 10 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki failed to announce a development strategy to address the economy’s inherited structural deficiencies in his State of the Nation address on Friday, said the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). This affects the country’s ability to address unemployment, poverty, inequalities and the social ills related to these.
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/ 10 February 2007
The National Youth Commission (NYC) has welcomed the acceleration of the skills-development process announced by President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation address on Friday. Particularly welcome was the expansion of the National Youth Service, it said in a statement.
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/ 10 February 2007
One person died and two were missing after a helicopter crash outside Durban on Friday night, KwaZulu-Natal police said. ”I saw it circle and then go down into the trees … There was a loud bang,” said witness Erinn Demsey. She had run out to her veranda when she heard the loud hum of the helicopter’s propellers.