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/ 16 February 2006
The South African women’s hockey team booked their place in Saturday’s final of the four-nation Spar Cup after beating Scotland 2-1 in Durban on Wednesday night. The home side didn’t have an easy time of it, though, and had to come back from a 1-0 deficit.
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/ 16 February 2006
Passing the 50 mark in cricket is seen as a noteworthy landmark. Reaching the 50 mark in the Fifa world rankings for Bafana Bafana on Wednesday was nothing short of entering an abyss — with South Africa’s national soccer team plummeting to their lowest ranking in 11 years.
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/ 16 February 2006
Two of the three medallists from the Salt Lake City Games struggled on the opening day of the Olympic ice-hockey tournament, while Canada shrugged off the Wayne Gretzky storm to cruise past hosts Italy. Latvia drew with 2002 silver medallists United States 3-3, while Slovakia stunned 2002 bronze-medal winners Russia 5-3.
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/ 16 February 2006
The giants of the internet were hauled before the United States Congress on Wednesday, accused of colluding with China’s secret police and censors to wield a ”cyber sledgehammer of repression”. Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Google were repeatedly accused of collusion with an oppressive regime.
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/ 16 February 2006
What were described as ”feverish” discussions were under way in Haiti on Wednesday to find a peaceful solution to the presidential election deadlock. René Préval, the former president and leading candidate by a wide margin, declared that he should be acknowledged as the rightful winner without recourse to a run-off election.
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/ 16 February 2006
Australian public broadcaster SBS on Thursday defended its decision to show previously unseen pictures of the abuse of prisoners in Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison by United States troops. Washington has complained that the broadcast could further inflame anti-US sentiment and endanger troops in Iraq.
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/ 16 February 2006
South African retail group Woolworths on Thursday reported a 19,6% increase in headline earnings per share to 53,1 cents for the 26 weeks ended December 2005 from 44,4 cents a year ago. An interim dividend of 24 cents per share was declared. The group reported a 16,7% rise in revenue to R7,415-billion.
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/ 16 February 2006
Calling it ”the worst day of my life”, United States Vice-President Dick Cheney made his first public comments on Wednesday on the weekend hunting accident in which he shot a 78-year-old Texan lawyer. ”Ultimately I’m the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry [Whittington],” Cheney said.
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/ 16 February 2006
World number-two platinum miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Thursday reported headline earnings per share of R28,06 for the half-year to December 2005, up 78% from R15,81 in the half-year to December 2004 due to stronger dollar metal prices. The increase in the group’s headline earnings was better than it had previously advised.
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/ 16 February 2006
Holy terror, Batman! Gotham’s under attack, and the caped crusader is the only one who can kick al-Qaeda’s butt. That, in essence, is the plot of the latest Batman comic book by leading graphic novelist Frank Miller, who was speaking at a comic-book convention in San Francisco at the weekend.