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/ 26 February 2006
They huffed and they puffed and found themselves with a host of scoring opportunities, but ultimately Kaizer Chiefs were entangled in Jomo Cosmos’ disciplined, defensive web during a goalless Premier Soccer League draw at the FNB Stadium on Saturday night.
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/ 26 February 2006
It certainly will not be a candidate for fight of the year. Isaac Hlatshwayo managed to retain his IBO lightweight title in a dull bout at Brakpan’s Carnival City on Saturday night. The South African defeated Argentina’s Aldo Rios on points over 12 rounds.
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/ 26 February 2006
The last thing I want to do is end up in the South African literary privy currently occupied by Darryl Bristow-Bovey, Pamela Jooste and St Antjie of the TRC, let alone have South Africa’s pre-eminent apologist for plagiarism, Stephen Johnson, CEO of Random Ethics House, furiously squeaking about my inalienable rights to literary burglary.
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/ 26 February 2006
Darren McGavin, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in the TV series Mike Hammer, played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic A Christmas Story and had other strong roles in such films as The Man with the Golden Arm and The Natural, has died. He was 83.
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/ 26 February 2006
Nicholas Sarkozy, France’s outspoken Interior Minister, has a new target: hooligan skiers. After swearing to clean out the nastiest housing estates with a sandblaster if necessary and cutting highway deaths by cracking down on speeding drivers, he is turning his attention to another problem zone: the ski slopes.
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/ 26 February 2006
The first loyalist march in Dublin since Partition had to be rerouted after thousands of republican protesters rioted in the centre of the Irish capital on Saturday, with several Irish police among 40 people injured. The main thoroughfare, O’Connell Street, became a battle zone as up to 2 000 rioters hurled missiles at Irish police.
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/ 26 February 2006
President Robert Mugabe used his official 82nd birthday celebrations on Saturday to launch a new tirade against the West, boosted by a split in the opposition party. In an apparent play on the name of United States President George Bush, Mugabe warned Zimbabwe’s youth to beware ”the monster of imperialism … lurking in the bush”.
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/ 26 February 2006
President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday won re-election in Uganda’s first multiparty polls since 1980, but his main rival rejected the results as opposition supporters clashed with police. Museveni was declared the overwhelming victor in Thursday’s landmark polls with nearly 60% of the vote.
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/ 26 February 2006
It takes a while to identify anything Indian inside the Metropolitan Mall in the rich Delhi suburb of Gurgaon. Harrison Ford peers from the cinema posters; Tommy Hilfiger lines up alongside Reebok and Benetton on the shop floor. A sign at the escalator (”Be careful of your sari while riding the stairs”) hints this is not a shopping centre in Alabama.
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/ 26 February 2006
Tens of thousands of Brazilians crammed the streets of Rio on Saturday, dancing to powerful samba rhythms in their world-famous street party that this year provided the perfect getaway for thieves who snatched art treasures worth millions and used the cover of carnival crowds to make their escape.