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/ 4 February 2005
The lack of quality South African strikers, especially in the Premier Soccer League, is giving national coach Stuart Baxter and his selection panel endless headaches. So when a gem like Dynamos striker Sandile Ndlovu comes along and scores 11 goals in the league — three short of last season’s top goalscorer — someone is bound to notice.
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/ 28 January 2005
With prospects of retaining the Premier Soccer League title receding fast, Kaizer Chiefs need to salvage something from what remains of the season. Though participating in two finals and winning one of them might be a great achievement for many clubs, for Chiefs and their fanatical supporters this is not enough.
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/ 21 January 2005
There was no shortage of action, entertainment or drama in the first half of the Castle Premiership season. These entertainers — or footballers, as some would like to call them — have stood the test of time after 15 league games and two cup competitions. The winners of the past five months of the season were Supersport United and Kaizer Chiefs.
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/ 21 January 2005
When Sepp Blatter, the president of world football’s governing body, left South Africa last week he said he hoped that South African youth teams would participate in Fifa youth tournaments. That is exactly what the South African under-17 team hope to set up this weekend. They are just one match away from the African youth championships.
The world looks beautiful from the summit of the Premier Soccer League table for Orlando Pirates as they survey all around them at this stage of the season. For Pirates, their 13-game unbeaten run in the Premier Soccer League has raised hopes of wrestling the championship title from arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs.
Capetonians expressed dismay and disappointment this week after a man they watched fall from a 14-floor window struck the pavement — and died. Alfred Swan had been trying to water the flower boxes outside his office, when he slipped and fell.
A covert Russian space probe, The Semteski III, has captured an extraordinary battle between two Earth robotic vehicles on the surface of Mars. The robotic explorers were photographed attacking each other, trying to snatch samples from each other’s baskets.
An imaginative solution has been found to the problem of parliamentary travel. This follows on the “Travelgate” scandal, which last year became a threat to the dignity of the politicians elected to serve in this forum of democratic endeavour.
The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, this week revealed his plans for “an innovative new initiative” to attract the growing numbers of “theme tourists” to South Africa.
A group of elderly women has been arrested in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. They were allegedly equipped with binoculars and “tubular objects that pose a danger to national security”.