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/ 16 December 2005
South Africa dismissed Australia for just 258 on Friday to seize the initiative on the opening day of the first Test. Captain Ricky Ponting top-scored with 71 as Makhaya Ntini scythed through the Australian line-up with figures of 5-64, exposing the middle-order vulnerability which South Africa had predicted before the match.
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/ 16 December 2005
Police raided the offices of an independent radio station on Thursday in Harare and arrested three reporters, a senior staff member said. More than a dozen police offices conducted the raid at the central Harare offices of Voice of the People and also seized documents and computers, said managing editor Shorai Kariwa.
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/ 16 December 2005
”I am relieved, so relieved,” said an exhausted looking Trevor Ncube, the owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, after he landed in Johannesburg on Friday morning, exactly a week after his passport was confiscated by Zimbabwean authorities.
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/ 16 December 2005
As the South African president pondered the true extent of racial harmony on Friday, a group of rightwingers spurned Reconciliation Day celebrations and assembled separately to lament their perceived loss of power. President Thabo Mbeki said black and white South Africans may be marching in different directions, turning a blind eye to one another.
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/ 16 December 2005
Ertugrul Kurkcu has been hauled before the judges for saying the wrong thing so many times that he has almost lost count. ”Six or seven trials, always acquitted, but I did get a 10-month jail sentence from a military court for translating a Human Rights Watch report,” says the veteran left-wing Turkish dissident.
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/ 16 December 2005
Authorities in Burundi paraded about 200 alleged criminals, most of them suspected members of the country’s last active rebel group, before the public in the capital on Thursday. In an event criticised by human rights groups, the detainees were put on display at Bujumbura’s Prince Louis Rwagasore stadium as part of a campaign to end the insurgency of the National Liberation Forces.
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/ 16 December 2005
Fifa chief Sepp Blatter on Friday said clubs tolerating discrimination should be expelled from competitions or relegated from their leagues and players like Paulo Di Canio should be thrown out of the game. Blatter, in Japan for the World Club Championships, said there was no place in football for discrimination or extremism of any kind.
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/ 16 December 2005
The All Blacks will play Ireland twice at home and a compete in a single Test in Argentina as well as defending their Tri-Nations title in an expanded competition in 2006. New Zealand will play Ireland on June 10 at Hamilton and in a second Test at Auckland the following week, according to a schedule released by the New Zealand Rugby Union on Friday.
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/ 16 December 2005
Real Madrid have their first match back in their Santiago Bernabeu stadium since Juan Ramon Lopez Caro took over as the Spanish giants’ latest coach two weeks ago when Osasuna visit on Sunday. Real are third with 28 points from 15 games but lie six points behind the leading pair.
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/ 16 December 2005
Zimbabwe’s high court on Thursday declared ”unlawful” the seizure of a leading newspaper publisher’s passport under new measures to punish government critics. ”We went to the high court today [Thursday] and Justice Chinembiri Bhunu declared that the conduct was unlawful,” lawyer Sternford Moyo said, referring to the seizure of Mail & Guardian publisher Trevor Ncube’s travel document by immigration officials on Thursday last week.