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/ 23 October 2005
National coach Jake White named a predictable 28-man Springbok squad at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday for the tour of Argentina, Wales and France next month. White stuck mostly to his tried and tested charges for what will undoubtedly be a gruelling three-Test tour, but handed comeback places to Lions fullback Conrad Jantjes and Western Province scrumhalf Bolla Conradie.
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/ 23 October 2005
The international community failed to grasp the scale of the South Asian earthquake and more than two weeks after the disaster, the response is still not enough, a United Nations relief official said on Sunday. Rashid Khalikov, the UN humanitarian aid area coordinator in this quake-hit capital of Pakistani Kashmir, said international relief agencies were ”still coming to grips” with the disaster.
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/ 23 October 2005
Ricky Ponting has defiantly told would-be suitors to his Australian Test cricket captaincy that he’s staying put and not going anywhere. Ponting, who along with team coach John Buchanan received most of the fall-out from Australia’s relinquishing of the Ashes to England last month, says he is running the show and intends to remain captain.
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/ 23 October 2005
Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe said on Saturday that racism in the judiciary was peddled by those resisting transformation, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. ”These problems experienced are designed to ensure that those who do not want change, hang on to what they have,” the SABC quoted Hlope as saying.
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/ 23 October 2005
A meeting called on Saturday by Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to discuss a split threatening to destroy his party ended with a resolution to boycott next month’s senate elections. However, key members of the national executive of the Movement for Democratic Change known to be in favour of participating in the November 26 poll, were absent.
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/ 23 October 2005
Fallout from the scandal of how a secret CIA operative’s name came to be leaked to the United States media, which is threatening to engulf the White House in crisis this week, has also reached the newsroom of the venerable New York Times. In an extraordinary memo to the paper’s staff, executive editor Bill Keller has launched a thinly veiled attack on its controversial reporter Judith Miller.
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/ 23 October 2005
In the film, there are demonstrations on a bridge in Paris. Last week there were protests on the Pont St Michel over the Seine. In the film, there are angry accusations of racism and counter-accusations of betrayal and treason. This weekend the harsh words, insults and racial slurs were as virulent as ever.
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/ 23 October 2005
A Nigerian airliner on a scheduled flight is missing and presumed crashed, officials said on Sunday, adding that helicopters have been scrambled to find any survivors. Once the plane had been missing for more than eight hours, officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (Faan) confirmed that it may have plunged into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff.
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/ 23 October 2005
The Thabo Mbeki-Jacob Zuma ”fight” was affecting government’s performance at every level, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Saturday. ”And the DA, as the official opposition leader, cannot remain neutral and detached. But which side, if any, should we support in the ANC’s internal battle?”
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/ 23 October 2005
Six people were listed as killed and two as missing early on Sunday after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico’s famous Yucatan resorts. More than 71 000 people, many of them foreign tourists, remained in emergency refuge centers for a second night as slow-moving, powerful Wilma continued to pummel the region with high winds and rains.