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In the Western Cape, traditionally a province where the opposition has been predominant, the ruling African National Congress is likely to see a more rosy result than in Cape Town in next Wednesday’s municipal election. In Cape Town, the official opposition Democratic Alliance is likely to make gains.
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The African Christian Democratic Party should be allowed to contest the local government elections in the Cape Town unicity, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. ”The court … declares that the applicant is entitled to contest the elections in the Cape metropolitan area on March 1,” Justice Kate O’Regan said on Friday.
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/ 24 February 2006
Police have denied news reports that Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was prevented from leaving a Khutsong stadium on Friday. ”There was no such thing whatsoever,” said police spokesperson Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht of reports that Lekota had been unable to leave the stadium for about 20 minutes.
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/ 24 February 2006
Three people have been arrested in connection with one of Britain’s biggest robberies, police said on Friday, after they recovered three of the getaway vehicles. A group of thieves made off with up to £50-million from a cash depot in the small market town of Tonbridge, south-east of London.
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/ 24 February 2006
The Waikato Chiefs laid down the law to break through for their first win of the season over Super 14 newcomers Western Force at Perth’s Subiaco Oval on Friday. The Chiefs, fresh from two defeats in South Africa, turned an unproductive glut of first-half possesion into points during the second half to emerge 26-9 victors.
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Interested parties welcomed the election of Oregan Hoskins as the new president of the South African Rugby Union. Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile congratulated Hoskins on his victory and said he hopes the problems within Saru will now be sorted out.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni holds a solid lead over opposition challenger Kizza Besigye in the country’s landmark elections, the first official results showed on Friday. Meanwhile, deadly raids by Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have forced scores of villagers in southern Sudan to flee their homes.
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SA Rugby turned a R12,8-million loss incurred by the end of 2004 into a R6,4-million net profit in the past financial year. The figures were contained in the company’s audited annual financial statements, adopted at Friday’s annual general council meeting at the Newlands rugby stadium.
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Four people died in the powerful earthquake on Thursday that forced thousands of panicked residents from their homes, Mozambique’s government and state radio reported on Friday. The United States Geological Survey said the quake struck on Thursday at 12.19am local time with a magnitude of 7,5.
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The petrol price is to decrease by 11 cents per litre next Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The new retail price of petrol of R5,52 per litre inland means the retail petrol price will have declined by 8,5% since it peaked at a record R6,03 cents per litre in October 2005.