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/ 27 December 2005
Mike Hussey and Glenn McGrath frustrated South Africa in a 107-run rearguard stand on Tuesday before Brett Lee dismissed Graeme Smith to give Australia an edge in the second cricket Test. Hussey punished South Africa for another dropped catch before he was bowled by Makhaya Ntini 11 minutes after lunch.
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/ 27 December 2005
A thousand cars an hour were heading inland through the Mooi River toll plaza on the N2 in KwaZulu-Natal by early Monday afternoon, the province’s road-traffic inspectorate said. Spokesperson Rajen Chinaboo said it appeared poor weather had ”dampened some spirits” and at least some holidaymakers were returning home early.
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/ 27 December 2005
A child died in a fire that destroyed about 60 shacks in an informal settlement off Lansdowne Road in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Monday, city fire-control spokesperson Gregory Carolissen said. A fire in the same area early on Monday morning razed about 200 shacks.
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/ 27 December 2005
"’It would be a good idea,’ Mahatma Gandhi famously remarked when asked what he thought of European civilisation. It is a useful perspective for Europeans, many of whom still tend to think of themselves as God’s gift to the world." Drew Forrest argues that to understand Europe’s unique taste for organised violence, we must delve into pre-history.
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/ 27 December 2005
In reading reports of the trial of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, you are struck by two things. The first, of course, is the anachronistic brutality of the country’s laws. Pamuk, like scores of other writers and journalists, is being prosecuted for ”denigrating Turkishness”, which means that he dared to mention the Armenian genocide in World War I and the killing of the Kurds in the past decade.
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/ 27 December 2005
Emerging from church, the bride blushed, the groom strutted, the confetti fluttered and the mariachis crooned. Up the road, huge cauldrons of chilli were set to bubble and bottles of tequila readied for the imminent onslaught. Another knot had been tied in the old country and it was time to party before the newlyweds headed back to daily life in California.
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/ 26 December 2005
Firefighters were still combating a brush fire at Melkbosstrand on Monday afternoon, Cape Town’s chief fire officer, Piet Smith, said. About 200 shacks were destroyed in a fire in an informal settlement at Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats on Monday morning, disaster-management services spokesperson John Brown said.
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/ 26 December 2005
Cape Town residents were asked on Monday to use water sparingly after the city’s main pipeline burst. The pipe — 1,6m in diameter — feeds water to the city’s reservoirs from the Voëlsvlei dam, said City of Cape Town spokesperson Charles Cooper. More than 30 years old, there are bursts on the pipeline every now and then, he said.
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/ 26 December 2005
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting thrilled a festive, 71 910-strong Boxing Day crowd in Melbourne and cashed in on an early ”life” to become only the third batsman to amass 1 500 runs in a Test calendar year before Australia collapsed against South Africa in the second Test on Monday.
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/ 26 December 2005
A 55-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of a six-year-old boy in Plettenberg Bay has confessed to the crime, police said on Monday. Inspector Elgin Antonie said the man confessed on Christmas Day. He was arrested on Christmas Eve.