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/ 28 September 2005
The teenager accusing Orlando Pirates midfielder Benedict Vilakazi of rape did not worship the soccer player, her aunt told the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Defence lawyer Ike Motloung informed the court his client will testify the girl had been a nuisance and ”was after him”.
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/ 28 September 2005
Typhoon Damrey’s destructive rampage through Vietnam left 33 people dead as heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides in its wake, officials said on Wednesday. The storm, the worst to hit Vietnam in a decade, weakened as it pushed further into Laos on Wednesday.
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/ 28 September 2005
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/ 28 September 2005
Western Province have made four changes — three enforced through injury — to their starting line-up for Saturday’s Currie Cup match against the Sharks in Durban. Egon Seconds and Gus Theron will be on the wings as Zhahier Ryland and Tonderai Chavhanga have been forced on to the sidelines with injuries.
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/ 28 September 2005
Under-fire England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson has insisted he still has the support of the players despite the suggestion of rifts within the England squad. Eriksson changed his formation for the embarrassing 1-0 defeat to Northern Ireland earlier this month, with captain David Beckham accommodated in a deep central role.
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/ 28 September 2005
South Africa must handle its self-assessment in terms of the African Peer Review Mechanism in a way that will benefit the rest of the continent, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. ”It is natural that the rest of the continent will watch this process very carefully,” Mbeki said in Midrand.
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/ 28 September 2005
More haste … and snail-mail speed. That’s the story of the government’s attempt to rush a law for the fast-happening integration of online media, broadcasting and telephony. Twenty-six months of public representations and parliamentary deliberations have finally concluded a Convergence Bill that is now almost ready for adoption in the House of Assembly.
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/ 28 September 2005
South Africa slipped one position to 42nd in the <i>Global Competitiveness Report</i> released on Wednesday by the World Economic Forum, but this was only because two new countries, Qatar (19) and Kuwait (33), came in above it. In an unchanged universe, South Africa would have moved up one position to 40th.
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/ 28 September 2005
A government commission is looking into the alleged defection of eight soccer players from a squad that went to play a friendly exhibition match in Britain, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Officials confirmed on Monday the eight had failed to show up at London’s Heathrow airport last week for the return flight.
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/ 28 September 2005
Armed with an automatic rifle, the Egyptian guard, Ahmed, took shelter from the scorching sun in the ruins of an old border crossing. Nearby, a Palestinian teenager from the Gaza side of this poor border town emerged from a bushy trail that stretches across the buffer of clumsy barbed wire fences and guard posts. Then the 14-year-old, Salama, sneaked across the porous frontier, hauling a plastic bag.