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/ 23 November 2006
Moroka Swallows, the last of Soweto’s ”Big Three”, crashed out of the Telkom Knockout at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night and continued a miserable sequence of results that has left the Dube club shorn of self-belief and in crisis. The Birds went down 2-1 to a youthful and willing but distinctly vulnerable Ajax Cape Town.
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/ 23 November 2006
Tiger Woods fired a six-under-par 66 in Hawaii on Wednesday to surge past Jim Furyk and defend his title in the -million Grand Slam of Golf. Woods, the world’s number-one player, captured his seventh title in eight appearances in this unofficial post-season event.
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/ 23 November 2006
English Premiership champions Chelsea qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League on Wednesday despite losing 1-0 to Werder Bremen. Barcelona beat Levski Sofia 2-0 but the reigning champions must beat Werder in the final group-A match if they are not to suffer a humiliating exit.
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/ 23 November 2006
Women’s magazine Femina has been sold to Media24, Associated Magazines said in a statement on Wednesday. Jane Raphaely, chairperson of Associated Magazines, said the sale will enable the company to diversify in areas outside the women’s magazine sector.
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/ 23 November 2006
The noose on companies violating employment-equity laws is to be tightened, the Labour Department said on Thursday. It quoted Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana as saying earlier this week: ”The issue of employment-equity violation is going to be my project next year.”
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/ 23 November 2006
A Mpumalanga man thought to be the Mozambican national who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison has turned out to be someone else, police said on Thursday. ”It is not the Annanias Mathe we are searching for,” national police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said.
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/ 23 November 2006
Driver’s and learner’s licence applications will go national from January next year, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has divulged in response to a parliamentary question. Answering the Democratic Alliance’s Manie van Dyk, the minister noted that his department does not currently administer the booking process.
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/ 23 November 2006
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday blamed both local and international media for portraying Nigeria and the rest of Africa in a bad light. ”The world is being fed with images of Nigeria and indeed Africa as a bedrock of war, famine, disease, corruption, illiteracy and underdevelopment,” he said at the launch of the country’s national television station.
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/ 23 November 2006
Identity is still an important debate in South Africa, said political analyst Frederik van Zyl Slabbert on Wednesday. ”There is no legal definition of a black [person], there is no legal definition of an African,” said Van Zyl Slabbert. He said he was an African ”because my president told me I’m an African”.
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/ 23 November 2006
Donor nations and organisations pledged around -million to an international effort to help former combatants in war-ravaged Central Africa back to civilian life, officials said on Wednesday after an aid meeting in Paris. The figure represents roughly half of the estimated funding still required for a programme totalling about -million, officials said.