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/ 28 September 2005
The obvious question after Enyinna Nkem-Abonta denounced the Democratic Alliance as racist after crossing to the African National Congress was: What’s new?Nigerian-born Nkem-Abonta and three other black DA MPs who defected recently justified their move by branding the DA anti-black.
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/ 28 September 2005
The JSE was firmer in noon trade on Wednesday, having touched a record high in early trade when the rand was weaker. Due to anticipation ahead of consumer inflation data — which was released at 11.30am — and lack of news to drive the market, it was a quiet morning’s trade, dealers said.
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/ 28 September 2005
German champions Bayern Munich put themselves in a commanding position to qualify from Champions League Group A with a 1-0 home win over FC Bruges on Tuesday. It was the first European match at Bayern’s new Allianz Arena and the German champions rewarded a 66 000 capacity crowd with a narrow victory.
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/ 28 September 2005
Public hospitals in Zimbabwe are finding it difficult to conduct HIV/Aids tests because of a lack of essential laboratory chemicals, the state-run Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. Zimbabwe has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. An estimated one in four Zimbabweans is HIV-positive.
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/ 28 September 2005
Jack Nicklaus looked as though he wanted a club in his hand, not a radio. But he was Captain Jack at the Presidents Cup, and he stood beside the eighth green to watch his American team play the short par four during the first set of fourball matches. Tiger Woods had left himself a difficult shot from about 50 yards, over a bunker with only 20 feet of green to the hole, a steep ridge behind it.
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/ 28 September 2005
Glamour girl Maria Sharapova’s meteoric rise to world number one is inspiring a new generation of Russian teenage girls to head for the courts hoping to emulate her sporting and financial success.
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/ 28 September 2005
Alex Ferguson refused to be drawn into a debate about Manchester United’s tactics following their important 2-1 victory over Benfica in the Champions League group game at Old Trafford last night. The long-serving United manager saw his team go top of Group D with goals from Ryan Giggs and, five minutes from time, a scrambled winner from Ruud van Nistelrooy.
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/ 28 September 2005
Ronaldinho scored a hat-trick to confirm Barcelona as one of the favourites to win this year’s Champions League, beating Italy’s Udinese 4-1 on Tuesday. Other former European champions Juventus, Bayern Munich and Manchester United also won in the second round of Europe’s top club competition.
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/ 28 September 2005
Unisa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) has been named one of South Africa’s top three leading business-school brands in the Markinor/<i>Sunday Times</i> Top Brands survey for 2005, released this week. It achieved third place in the survey.
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/ 28 September 2005
Listed diversified black economic empowerment (BEE) company Mvelaphanda Group (Mvela) will acquire a further effective 2,47% stake in banking group Absa, the company said on Wednesday. This follows an agreement with Mvelaphanda Holdings and BEE group Batho Bonke.