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/ 15 January 2007
Bloemfontein Celtic came from behind to beat struggling Pirates 3-1 in a Premier Soccer League (PSL) match played in front of a capacity crowd at Vodacom Park Stadium in Bloemfontein on Sunday. In other matches, Kaizer Chiefs beat Benoni Premier United 2-0 and Moroka Swallows beat PSL log leaders Silver Stars 1-0.
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/ 15 January 2007
Jomo Cosmos ran a plodding Wits University ragged during a 4-0 Premier Soccer League (PSL) drubbing at a steamy, sun-scorched Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday afternoon. There was no respite for Wits against speedy, lithe foes who tore their defence to shreds.
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/ 15 January 2007
Argentina’s Ariel Canete closed with three birdies in the final four holes at the East Course of the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club on Sunday to become the inaugural winner of the Jo’burg Open and the first Argentinian to win in South Africa. He closed with a round of 67 over the East Course for a total of 19-under-par 266.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers maintained his stranglehold on the Dakar Rally on Sunday when he took victory in the eighth stage. Race leader De Villiers, driving a Volkswagen, finished ahead of French Mitsubishi pair Stephane Peterhansel and Luc Alphand on the stage from Atar to Tichit.
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/ 15 January 2007
In a lycra revolution, a cover-all swimming costume is bringing Muslim women on to Australian beaches as lifeguards, unzipping racial tensions which divided parts of Sydney little over a year ago. The two-piece ”burqini” is proving key to reshaping surf lifesaving down under — once a bastion of white Australian culture and still a heartland of the country’s sun-bronzed, heroic self-myth.
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/ 15 January 2007
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni was released from the Malmesbury prison on Monday morning. Yengeni was set free having served just more than four months of his original four-year sentence. Earlier, a group of senior Western Cape ANC leaders arrived at the Malmesbury prison to welcome him back into society.
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/ 15 January 2007
A 15-year-old boy wearing blood-spattered clothing, has been arrested in connection with the murder of 78-year-old Mpumalanga farmer Sarel Breedt, News24 reported on Monday. The blood was thought to be that of Breedt, who was tied to a chair at his Honingsdraai farm and shot in the head on Thursday afternoon.
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/ 15 January 2007
If Ronald "Ron the Con" Suresh Roberts had any spine in him, he’d have been present in court when Judge Leslie Weinkove threw as much of the book at him as he could during the Roberts defamation case against the <i>Sunday Times</i>. Instead, according to his lawyers, he was unavailable, maybe even out of the country.
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/ 15 January 2007
Two of Saddam Hussein’s aides were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said, admitting that the head of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al- Tikriti was also ripped from his body during the execution. But spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh told a news conference that there was ”no violation of procedure”.
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/ 15 January 2007
Fraud convict Tony Yengeni received two high-profile visitors at the Malmesbury Prison on Sunday –- African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma and Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour. While Zuma’s visit was a social one, Balfour’s was official, the department said in a statement.