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/ 19 October 2005
Bush Bucks’ new coach, Clive Barker, was a happy man as he guided his new charges to a well-deserved 1-0 victory over hosts Silver Stars in their Premier Soccer League match played at the Nkowa Stadium in Tzaneen on Wednesday. The first half was riddled with mistakes as both teams tried to no avail to impose their superiority.
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/ 19 October 2005
Washington’s power-broking elite is shaken and stirred, and revolt is brewing over the Dom Perignon and canapés at the latest threat to the United States capital’s everyday life. What can have so vexed the cocktail party set? A new al-Qaeda terror threat? Quagmire in Iraq?
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/ 19 October 2005
Mining house Thistle is to dismiss about 1 400 workers at its President Steyn gold mine in the Free State, the company announced on Wednesday. The announcement follows an agreement with the National Union of Mineworkers and Solidarity.
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/ 19 October 2005
The sex-crimes trial of advocates Dirk Prinsloo and Cezanne Visser will be closed to the public for some weeks, it appeared on Wednesday. Pretoria High Court Judge Essop Patel ordered last week that the evidence of one of the alleged victims — a woman who had worked for Prinsloo and Visser — be heard in camera.
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/ 19 October 2005
Blue Bulls captain Anton Leonard will be fit to lead his team for the last time when they face off against the Free State Cheetahs in the Currie Cup final on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld. Leonard injured his shoulder as he scored a try in last week’s bruising semifinal against the Lions.
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/ 19 October 2005
A Zimbabwean archbishop said on Wednesday he fears 200 000 of his countrymen could die by early next year because of food shortages he blames on his government, and called for President Robert Mugabe’s ouster. Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube said: ”The amount of suffering is beyond imagination.”
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/ 19 October 2005
The Kebble family on Wednesday announced that the Brett Kebble Art Awards, which were planned for February next year, will not go ahead. "The late Brett Kebble created South Africa’s biggest, boldest and most inclusive art awards," said producer of the awards David Barritt.
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/ 19 October 2005
Northern Ireland unionists who fear change will learn, like white South Africans did, that they stand to gain rather than lose, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Mbeki was speaking to reporters after meeting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Pretoria. Adams said people in his country want what South Africans have.
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/ 19 October 2005
A ceasefire was declared in the Hlophe race war on Wednesday when Chief Justice Pius Langa said that none of the protagonists wants any further action to be taken. Langa made the announcement in a statement issued at the end of a three-day meeting of the Judicial Service Commission in Cape Town.
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/ 19 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma, which swelled into an ”extremely dangerous” category-five storm on Wednesday, threatening Mexico and the Caribbean, is the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.