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/ 14 October 2006
The Currie Cup was shared for the fourth time in its history when the Cheetahs and the Blue Bulls played to a 28-28 draw at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein on Saturday evening. Both sides earned the boasting rights for one more season after playing 100 minutes of rugby when they deadlocked at 25-25 after 80 minutes.
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/ 14 October 2006
The Mail & Guardian Online was on Saturday morning interdicted from publishing the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s report into whether there was a policy blacklisting some commentators because of their political views. On Saturday night, M&G lawyers were fighting the interdict in the Johannesburg High Court. It is probably the first time that a major South African online news publisher has been interdicted.
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/ 14 October 2006
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira, the former world number six and who holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournaments played, admitted Saturday that retirement has been hard. The 35-year-old, an Australian Open semifinalist in 1992 and 2003, called it a day on the ATP Tour at the 2004 US Open.
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/ 14 October 2006
Australia’s cricketers are using the latest fitness techniques to get an edge over England in next month’s Ashes series, reports said on Saturday. The Aussies are looking more muscular and fitter with the help of sports science, including GPS satellite tracking systems and accelerometers to measure players’ physical activity.
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/ 14 October 2006
Six elderly people were killed in a fire at an old age home in Krugersdorp, the Mogale City municipality said on Saturday. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Moria Old Age Home on Friday night. Its cause was not yet known. ”One person was taken to hospital in a serious condition,” said public safety director Jorrie Jordaan.
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/ 14 October 2006
As the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians prepared to set out on patrol through central Basra on Friday all the talk was of their boss’s suggestion that they were making the situation worse. General Sir Richard Dannatt’s comments that the British military presence in southern Iraq ”exacerbates the security problems” and that they should get out ”sometime soon” was met with a mix of frustration and quiet agreement
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/ 14 October 2006
Belgium, Italy and South Africa will on Monday be selected as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for the 2007/08 period, a spokesperson said on Friday. The three countries will be elected by secret ballot by the 192-member General Assembly to succeed Denmark and Greece and Tanzania respectively.
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/ 14 October 2006
A Texas police officer whose web page on MySpace.com included images of dismembered women has been suspended, the city attorney’s office in Wichita Falls said. Jeremiah Love’s page on the social networking site contained images and statements that could undermine public confidence in the police department and hurt his testimony in criminal cases.
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/ 14 October 2006
Angry they have been charged with a rape they say they did not commit, three members of Duke University’s lacrosse team say in an upcoming television interview that the accusations have hurt their lives and those of their families for good — even if they end up being cleared.
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/ 13 October 2006
More South Africans than ever before have electricity, water and sanitation — but local government is failing to run these services properly, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on Friday. ”Local government has proved to be a most unreliable custodian of existing infrastructure,” said the IJR’s 2006 transformation audit, Money and Morality, released in Johannesburg.