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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.
United States President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have met in Iraq for a secret summit before that country goes to the polls for its first democratic elections.
In a world-beating move by the Department of Education, fraud and corruption study is to be added to secondary school curricula. It is an attempt to further prepare learners for a sucessful life in the New South Africa.
The Department of Health has announced what it describes as thrilling new research undertaken by the original inventors of the controversial anti-Aids drug, Virodene.
Four institutions only will make up South Africa’s higher education system within a year. There will be one vast mega-university, plus the Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science (WSU), the University of the Western Cape and Mangosuthu Technikon (MT).
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.