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/ 16 January 2006
South African gold-mining group Gold Fields and Toronto-listed Bolivar Gold on Monday announced that Scion Capital has delivered a notice of dissent in respect of its approximately 19% common share interest in Bolivar and that Gold Fields intends to waive the condition in section 7.2(e) of its arrangement agreement with Bolivar.
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/ 16 January 2006
Mark Boucher and Justin Kemp combined for an unbeaten 69-run partnership on Sunday to give South Africa a thrilling five-wicket win over Australia in a tri-series limited-overs cricket match. South Africa, with its first win on its Australian tour, scored 231-5, chasing Australia’s 228 with seven balls to spare.
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/ 16 January 2006
Former England manager Terry Venables is among 50 applicants to coach 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa, reports in Johannesburg said. Lotthar Matthaus and former Republic of Ireland boss Brian Kerr are other ex-national team managers from Europe seeking to succeed Englishman Stuart Baxter, who quit two months ago after a nine-match winless run.
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/ 16 January 2006
Cameroon football legend Roger Milla claimed that African football would be a lot healthier if there was more transparency over the finances and if administrators were held to account if money was missing. The 53-year-old said it was criminal that the players suffered while the men in suits got richer.
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/ 16 January 2006
France’s Luc Alphand, driving a Mitsubishi, improved on his runners-up spot last year to win the Dakar Rally following the 15th and final stage in Dakar on Sunday ahead of South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers and Nani Roma of Spain. Alphand, the 1997 overall World Cup skiing champion, said afterwards: ”This was definitely the most exciting Dakar Rally that I have been involved in.”
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/ 16 January 2006
Was it God’s will or human error that killed 439 in two separate incidents during this year’s annual pilgrimage to Mecca? That’s the question which many pilgrims were pondering as they bid the holy city farewell. The hajj began on January 8, three days after the collapse of an aging hostel in the heart of Mecca killed 76 people, and ended on Thursday with 363 pilgrims dead in a stampede.
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/ 16 January 2006
Zimbabwe will ban leaded petrol from March in line with a regional agreement to phase out the fuel this year, a spokesperson for the energy ministry said on Monday. "We have set the end of March as the deadline for using unleaded fuel as this is in line with other countries in the region," said Justin Mupamhanga, secretary in the energy ministry.
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/ 16 January 2006
Opposition parties spent Sunday launching their local government election manifestos as the African National Congress looked inwards. The Democratic Alliance launched its local government election campaign in Durban on Sunday with promises that it would enhance service delivery and bring an end to corruption.
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/ 16 January 2006
The state believes about R34-million was involved in Jacob Zuma’s ”generally corrupt relationship” with Schabir Shaik and it wants every cent back, media reports said on Monday. The National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit will file an application to this effect in the Durban High Court on Wednesday.
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/ 16 January 2006
More than 40 African non-governmental organisations have launched a bid to prevent Sudan from becoming the next chair of the African Union, claiming the move would jeopardise peacekeeping operations in the country’s troubled Darfur region.