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/ 17 February 2006
If the organisers of the Super 14 wanted a dramatic start to the new competition, then week one certainly provided it. There were five away wins and the only teams to break the sequence came, respectively, top and bottom of the log in the 2005 Super 12. Not many expected the much-maligned Sharks to beat the Chiefs in Durban.
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/ 17 February 2006
Benni McCarthy would have been excluded from the African Nations Cup Bafana Bafana squad had coach Ted Dumitru known the star striker had not signed a remuneration agreement. The Mail & Guardian has obtained a copy of Dumitru’s technical report on the disastrous campaign in Egypt, in which the coach presents a litany of accusations and excuses for his side’s performance.
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/ 17 February 2006
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has urged a new British envoy to help build bridges between their respective countries, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Friday. ”We want you here to help construct formidable bridges. We need a bridge with the British,” officials quoted Mugabe as saying at a credentials ceremony.
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/ 17 February 2006
Haitians and their neighbours welcomed Thursday’s election of René Préval as president, amid signs aid was in the pipeline to help restore stability in the hemisphere’s poorest country. Haitians had celebrated in the streets after Préval was declared the winner of the February 7 presidential election early on Thursday following a reshuffling of blank ballots.
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/ 17 February 2006
A global bird flu pandemic could kill as many as 142-million people and wipe about ,4-trillion from economic output, according to a worst-case scenario published by Australian academics. The study, released on Thursday by independent policy body the Lowy Institute, found that even a mild outbreak would have a sustained impact on the world economy.
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/ 17 February 2006
Miles Davis wouldn’t have wanted his out-takes made public. So, asks John Walters, why all the box sets?
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The young man at the centre of the drama surrounding the Jacob Zuma trial once faced a similar charge to the one now levelled at his father, media reports said on Friday. Five years ago, Mziwoxolo Edward Zuma, now 29, was arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old woman, a fellow student at the University of Zululand.
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/ 17 February 2006
There’s a lizard on the loose in peaceful Cambridgeshire, a 1,2m black and white Argentinian tegu lizard that goes by the name of Gonzo. "I suspect anyone coming across him will be terrified," said Gonzo’s owner James Burfield (22) who suspects the reptile escaped last Saturday after the family dog pushed open the door of its tank when no one was looking.
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/ 17 February 2006
Rival Somali sub-clans battled over pasture and wells just inside Ethiopia leaving at least 12 dead and more than two dozen wounded in a second day of fighting on Thursday as competition for water and pasture heats up in the drought-stricken region, officials said.
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/ 17 February 2006
Anthony Wakaba Mutheki is rapidly ascending the art ladder, writes Alex Sudheim.