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/ 15 January 2007

Struggling Pirates beaten by Celtic

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

Not so teenie Aussie burqini brings beach shift

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

ANC leaders flock to Yengeni’s release

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

Unliked, unlikeable and unavailable

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

Saddam’s co-defendants hanged in Iraq

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

Balfour reads Yengeni the ‘riot act’

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.