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India captain Rahul Dravid is resigning from the post to concentrate on his batting, cricket board president Sharad Pawar said on Friday. ”In the last few days he has told me that captaincy was affecting his game,” Pawar told reporters. ”He said he can’t handle both the responsibilities, which were leading to small deficiencies.
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A lack of sponsorship and an insufficient number of clubs from coastal areas have set the football National First Division about four years back. Club officials this week reluctantly accepted a proposal by the Premier Soccer League to divide it into two different leagues, known as the Coastal and Inland Streams, thereby robbing it of its national identity.
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With just about 1 000 days to go to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, South African media fears about the commercialisation of the tournament and how it could hamper effective coverage of the event seem well-founded. Fifa marketing executive Sandile Ndzekeli refused to grant the Mail & Guardian the right to publish the images of three 2010 World Cup posters.
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A week into the Rugby World Cup and, if you believe the headlines in New Zealand and South Africa, the Webb Ellis Trophy is already heading back to the southern hemisphere. After defeat for France in Paris on the opening day and less than impressive wins against the minnows for England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, the northern hemisphere is merely making up the numbers.
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Across South Africa there is a feeling of dissent growing. As men gather around the television, grumbling wives are eyeing uncut grass with concern. They know there are still weeks to go before their men even think of looking at a lawnmower, let alone use one.
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It was 2003 and I was working for the Rugby World Cup’s internal news-wire service. Based in Perth, Australia, covering the Springboks’ pool, the Georgian national team were one of the teams with whom I spent a bit of time. What I found was a bunch of athletes whose dreams of representing their country in water polo, wrestling and weightĂ‚Âlifting were crushed by the civil war.
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Jocelyn Creed started playing rugby in 2002 with Villagers Rugby Club. She played Western Province rugby for three seasons. Then she was appointed to manage Villagers ladies’ team and the Western Province ladies’ team during their season. Creed and her friends noticed the lack of attention paid to women’s rugby and opened Ntombi Rugby Academy in May last year.
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The future of cricket flaunts a six-pack, camo pants, a bandanna and a bra-top, and she would surely be arrested if she swung her hips like that on a Sunday afternoon in Senekal. If she did so in the International Cricket Council boardroom there would be pink gin splutters all over the plush carpeting.
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What a difference four years make. On Friday South Africa take on England at the Stade de France, confident that they have the beating of the old enemy. Four years ago the England team had an aura of invincibility about it, but today it looks like one of those household implements reassembled in haste, with two or three parts left over that don’t seem to have a genuine function.
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South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said on Friday that it was concerned that the proposed Employee Share Ownership Scheme (ESOP) proposed under Sasol’s R17,9-billion black economic empowerment (BEE) deal "falls short of the level of empowerment envisioned in the Codes [of Good Practice]".