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/ 27 January 2006
After months of speculation about whether it would happen, the A1 grand prix circus has rolled into South Africa for the first street-race in the fledgling series. Sceptics doubted that the streets of Durban could be safely converted into an international-level race track in a mere two months.
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/ 27 January 2006
The Bafana Bafana players currently doing duty in the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Egypt suffered the shock defeat of their careers, and it was not only on the field of play. The players expected a groundswell of support for their demands for more pay, probably banking on the entrenched contempt for the South African Football Association.
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/ 27 January 2006
Most Dusi veterans have portaged Burma Road at least once and most swear they will never, ever do it again. But the top contenders know that if they run the whole thing — it takes about 30 minutes — they can save a minute on a fast crew paddling around and shooting the biggest rapids of the three-day event.
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/ 27 January 2006
Two German nationals living in South Africa, but with overseas bank accounts, have been targeted by banking scamsters using personal identity and banking details, which were apparently leaked by a government department.
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/ 27 January 2006
Rhodes University has offered Dr Ashwin Desai — controversially barred from seeking employment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal — both a short-term lecturing post in sociology and a venue for his research project on transformation in South African sport.
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/ 27 January 2006
The ANC has pledged to weed out candidates with
skeletons in their closets, but a few have slipped the net.
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/ 27 January 2006
Sri Lanka’s key foreign backers welcomed on Friday an agreement by the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to resume peace talks and urged them to work to halt violence. Japan praised Norway for breaking on Wednesday a three-year deadlock in the peace process by clinching a deal for the warring parties to meet face-to-face in Geneva by mid-February.
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/ 27 January 2006
International media rights groups condemned China on Friday over the jailing of journalist Li Changqing for three years on charges of providing ”alarmist information” to an overseas website. Li was sentenced on Tuesday by a court in Fuzhou in the southeastern province of Fujian for publishing an article about a local dengue fever outbreak.
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/ 27 January 2006
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander has some advice for today’s players as they struggle to keep up with Roger Federer — get into his head and under his skin. Wilander said it was sad to see so many players almost expecting to lose to the world number one and they needed to adopt more ruthless tactics.
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/ 27 January 2006
Four-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin-Hardenne believes her big-match experience could be a crucial factor in Saturday’s Australian Open final against French third seed Amelie Mauresmo. The Belgian is a veteran of five Grand Slam finals, while Mauresmo has contested only one, when she received a straight sets drubbing in the 1999 decider at Melbourne Park.