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/ 24 February 2006

Hoskins named as new SA Rugby president

Sharks president Oregan Hoskins has been elected president of the South African Rugby Union, defeating incumbent Brian van Rooyen at the annual general meeting held on Friday. Former vice-president Mike Stofile was elected deputy president and Western Province’s Koos Basson has been appointed as vice-president.

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/ 24 February 2006

Redemption on the road to Jabavu?

Would the masterful and mellifluous, near-genius skills of world number one Roger Federer have surfaced in all their glory had his parents decided to remain in South Africa instead of returning to Switzerland soon after their marriage in the late 1970s?

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/ 24 February 2006

Chelsea: When the biters are bit

Chelsea, who know something about persuading referees to send off opponents,
see the tables turned. Losing with grace is not nice. Particularly when the object of so much of the post-match abuse on Wednesday night at Stamford Bridge was Messi, who will not be 19 until June. The boy’s magic.

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/ 24 February 2006

Academies left in the lurch by sinking funds

With weekday coaching sessions for boys aged eight to 16, matches against other clubs at the weekends and plenty going on in the school holidays, Leeds Road playing fields Huddersfield Town is a brisk, professional place — and, like all of the Football League’s academies and centres of excellence, currently a worried one, too.

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/ 24 February 2006

DRDGold looks to diversify into Africa

Gold miner DRDGold is looking to diversify into the rest of Africa and is examining the potential of two gold-mining properties in two different African countries, DRDGold strategic development officer Ilja Graulich said on Thursday. DRDGold started the process of diversifying into Africa in November last year, he said.

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/ 24 February 2006

ACDP makes 11th-hour election bid

If the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) loses its eleventh hour bid to contest the city of Cape Town in next Wednesday’s election it will take out interdicts to prevent all other parties from contesting it too, the party’s lawyer told the Constitutional Court on Thursday.

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/ 24 February 2006

At least 51 dead in Bangladesh factory fire

At least 51 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a fire swept through a textile factory in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong, officials said on Friday. Up to 500 people were believed to be working in the factory when the fire broke out on Thursday, and several platoons of army troops took over the rescue operation after the firefighters struggled to contain the blaze.

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/ 24 February 2006

Enron CEO ‘didn’t want to be corrected’

A former Enron vice-president of investor relations testified that in the months before the company failed in late 2001, she witnessed behavior by top company executives that concerned her but did not think crimes were being committed. ”I observed events that I thought were wrong, so I did make a conclusion. I didn’t make a conclusion that it was legal or illegal,” Paula Rieker said under cross-examination.