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/ 8 December 2005
Bush Bucks suffered yet another Premier Soccer League defeat when they lost 2-1 to a 10-man Thembisa Classic in a closely contested match at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday night. The home team came back strongly in the second stanza and went ahead in the 47th minute when Collen Zimba finished neatly for a deserved lead.
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/ 8 December 2005
Santos registered their 12th draw of the season when they held SuperSport United to a 2-2 result after leading 1-0 at the interval in a Premier Soccer League match played at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night. In the 2nd minute Mngomezulu Sipho’s hard drive was brilliantly saved by Santos goalkeeper Brenden Wardle.
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/ 8 December 2005
South Africa’s director-general of Foreign Affairs has convened a meeting with Equatorial Guinea ambassador Juan Ncuchuma to try to secure the return of two nationals being held in that country. Aircraft crew members Sechan Pillay and Ruwayda Kalbine have been held in Equatorial Guinea for five weeks due to problems between two companies involved in a string of aviation sub-contracts.
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/ 8 December 2005
There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture which now is blazing its way across the world’s media. It was Beckettian in that Pinter sat in a wheelchair, with a rug over his knees and framed by an image of his younger self, delivering his sombre message: memories of Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame came to mind.
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/ 8 December 2005
They are the addicts who slake their craving in public, snatch a fix in boring business meetings, on the subway, or even risk a hit during rows with their spouses. But Americans hooked on the BlackBerry hand-held computer, dubbed by wags as the ”CrackBerry” for the hold it has on users, may soon be tasting cold turkey, if a patent dispute forces its maker to turn off the service.
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/ 8 December 2005
The JSE was in the red just before noon on Thursday, dragged down by profit-taking and weaker world markets. While off their highs, gold stocks remained strong on the back of the bullion price which reached a 24-and-a-half year high of $519,01/oz in Asian trade.
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/ 8 December 2005
Nominal house price growth declined further to 14,7% year-on-year in November 2005, according to the latest Absa House Price Index. This was the lowest year-on-year growth since mid-2002 and brought the average house price in the middle segment of the market to about R727 700 in November this year.
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/ 8 December 2005
The Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, has finally acknowledged the governor of Florida, Jeb Bush — one of his most vociferous critics — as a political heavyweight. But his comments were a well-aimed dig at Bush’s expanding waistline rather than any softening of relations between Havana and Washington.
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/ 8 December 2005
Six motor manufacturers and importers are to pay over R31-million in administrative penalties for anti-competitive practices, the Competition Commission said on Wednesday. The six companies are General Motors, Nissan, Volkswagen and its Gauteng dealers, Subaru dealers, Citroeuml;n and DaimlerChrysler.
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/ 8 December 2005
Dozens of women are rotting away, imprisoned in a former royal palace without trial or sentence, penned up in cramped cells over charges of murder, kidnap and the new Iraq nasty: terrorism. The Queen Alia palace in Baghdad, once home to the mother of King Faisal and formerly replete with gold panelling, was rebranded into a women’s prison after the fall of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958.