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/ 2 May 2000

BARLOW TO BE FLOWN TO SINGAPORE

BANGLADESH cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage at the weekend, will be flown to Singapore for an examination, his wife said on Tuesday. A doctor at the Combined Military Hospital where Barlow is being treated said the South African’s condition was stable. “The Bangladesh Cricket Board is sending my husband to Singapore […]

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/ 2 May 2000

LOMU LOSES APPEAL

JONAH Lomu failed on Tuesday to have a two-match ban for a dangerous tackle overturned. All Black winger Lomu, cited after a Super 12 match between the Wellington Hurricanes and New South Wales Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday, said he was disappointed with the verdict. Lomu went to the Australian Rugby Union’s headquarters hopeful of […]

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/ 2 May 2000

ALGERIAN CLUB BANNED

ALGERIAN club USMA have been disqualified from the African Cup Winners’ Cup for fielding an ineligible player during the first round. African Football Confederation spokesman Dr Viken Djizmedjian said Monday that USMA used Issaka Coulibaly against JS Tenere of Niger without an international transfer certificate from Burkina Faso. Tenere, who lost the tie 2-1 on […]

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/ 2 May 2000

LIBERIA TO FIND OUT WHO IS IN ARMY

RESTRUCTURING of the Liberia’s national army began this week with a process of “redocumentation”. Chairman of the 28 member Restructuring Commission Blamo Nelson said the exercise will determine the present strength of the army and “who is in the army.” “All persons mobilized into the army in the wake of the December 24, 1989 incursion […]

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/ 2 May 2000

KIWI SQUAD FOR AMAGLUG CLASH

THE New Zealand soccer team to play Bafana Bafana in a two-leg Olympic qualifier was announced on Tuesday. Overseas-based New Zealand players players who missed the 4-0 defeat to Japan in March return for the matches at North Harbour Stadium on May 19 and South Africa on May 27. Defender John Foundoulakis, midfielder Raffaele De […]

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/ 2 May 2000

Hundreds back Zim’s war veterans leader in fraud trial

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 8.00pm. MILITANT self-styled war veterans waited in their hundreds outside the High Court in Harare the entire day on Tuesday, while their leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, stood trial for alleged fraud. The veterans, joined by youths dressed in T-shirts of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, cheered […]

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/ 2 May 2000

FIVE MORE UN SOLDIERS ADBUCTED IN SIERRA LEONE

FIVE Kenyan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone were abducted on Tuesday from the eastern town of Magburaka by former rebels, UN officials in Freetown said, after announcing an unspecified number of UN soldiers had been kidnapped in two other attacks. Force commander Vijay Jetley said in a statement on the other […]

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/ 2 May 2000

ZIM TRADE SHOW MUTED

ZIMBABWE’S premier trade show opened on Monday in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, with almost half of its usual foreign exhibitors absent this year. The number of foreign countries whose firms are represented has dropped from 28 last year to 17 this year, Graham Rowe, the general manager of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair […]

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/ 2 May 2000

FINEGAN OUT FOR SIX MONTHS

THE ACT Brumbies were stripped further of their forward strength with news on Tuesday that back-row enforcer Owen Finegan is out of rugby for six months. Finegan will undergo surgery next week on his left knee after a scan revealed the 26-Test veteran and World Cup winner tore his medial and cruciate ligaments against the […]

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/ 2 May 2000

UFOs ARE ROCKET DEBRIS — NASA

TWO white-hot hunks of metal which crashed to earth in South Africa last week are debris from a US rocket launched four years ago. The first, weighing around 30 kilograms, landed on a farm near Cape Town on Thursday; the other, estimated to weigh about 100 kilograms on a nearby farm the following day. Nasa […]