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/ 9 December 2005
New Zealand remains angry with Australia over its decision to back Japan for the 2011 Rugby World Cup despite the resignation of Australian chairman Dilip Kumar over the dispute. But in a terse statement Friday NZRU chairman Jock Hobbs said the resignation had changed nothing.
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/ 9 December 2005
It was once called Boxing Day. Now Bafana Bafana coach Ted Dumitru’s plan to start preparations for the African Nations Cup on the day after Christmas has received a shuddering, if not decisive knock-out blow from Fifa.
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/ 9 December 2005
Amakhosi have upset The Buccaneers’ applecart once this season and proved to themselves they have the ability to do it again. The form team, however, remains Pirates. A victory for Pirates will place them firmly in front on the title trail and all but eliminate defending champions Chiefs’ hopes.
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/ 9 December 2005
High-risk offenders in prisons will have their privileges curbed over the festive season to prevent possible escape attempts, says Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour. Many offenders did all in their power to escape from incarceration, apparently in pursuit of further criminal activities over this time.
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/ 9 December 2005
Visitors to the Abu Aishe family in the heart of the biblical and bitterly-disputed city of Hebron either require an army escort to the front of the steel mesh cage protecting the three-storey home or risk assault by a barrage of stones, rotting food and shouts of ”Death to Arabs” from the neighbours.
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/ 9 December 2005
The wife of a passenger shot dead after apparently claiming he was carrying a bomb on a plane desperately tried to tell air marshals her husband was mentally ill and had not taken his medication before they opened fire, killing him. ”She was chasing after him,” Alan Tirpak, another passenger on board, told CNN.
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/ 9 December 2005
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has called on his country’s citizens to ”celebrate” the return of their land at a ruling party conference. Addressing members of his ruling party’s central committee in the small southern Zimbabwe town of Esigodini, Mugabe said the country needed to boost harvests.
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/ 9 December 2005
South Africa’s tour woes worsened on Friday when spinner Nicky Boje injured his hand during the one-day festival match against a Western Australian Chairman’s XI. Boje was fielding during the limited-overs game at Perth’s Lilac Hill ground when he split the webbing on his right hand.
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/ 9 December 2005
South Africa’s foreign affairs department is ”quite optimistic” of a breakthrough in negotiations with Equatorial Guinea for the release of two South African crewmen being held there against their will. ”Our director-general has emphasised the need to bring them back home as soon as possible,” said a foreign affairs spokesperson.
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/ 9 December 2005
South Africa is hoping that rich countries will move away from vague commitments to "precise figures" and deadlines for opening up markets to poorer nations, said its lead negotiator at next week’s WTO talks. Speaking ahead of the key World Trade Organisation meeting opening in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Xavier Carim also singled out the European Union for criticism, saying its stance on agriculture was holding back progress on a new trade deal.