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/ 21 October 2005
Saturday provides Kaizer Chiefs fans with what has become a rare opportunity: knowing their team will not play to a draw. It is Coca-Cola Cup weekend and the rules of the competition insist on a result from all matches. If the teams are tied at the end of normal time, then it will be settled on penalties.
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/ 21 October 2005
Top seed Lindsay Davenport had to save two match points against enterprising Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova before advancing to the quarterfinals of the Zurich Open on Thursday. France’s second seed Amelie Mauresmo meanwhile was bundled out by qualifier Katarina Srebotnik.
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/ 21 October 2005
On the night Jonathan Woodgate finally came good for Real Madrid with the equaliser in their 4-1 win over Rosenborg, my mind remained filled with the image of Thierry Henry on Tuesday night. The elegant French substitute was called into action after 16 minutes at Sparta Prague when Jose Reyes limped off.
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/ 21 October 2005
Enforced absence from the game is torture to any footballer. For Fabien Barthez, the past few months have been, in his own words, ”useless”. Strange months they have been, too. The French goalkeeper has been serving a six-month suspension for spitting at a Moroccan referee, Abdellah El-Achiri.
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/ 21 October 2005
It is the first time in Steve Basson’s career that he has shot 79 to lead a tournament. And after surviving the brutal conditions in the second round of the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour Championship at the Links at Fancourt on Thursday, the slightly built golfer declared, ”I don’t weigh enough to play in wind like this”.
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/ 21 October 2005
In one of his occasional but welcome visits to South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki emitted another beatitude: this one was about the reactionary psycho-pathology prevalent among those white people still insisting on languishing in his republic.
Mbeki was quite clear.
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/ 21 October 2005
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has cautioned that the long period of lower interest rates (monetary policy accommodation) may be coming to an end, despite the current level of inflation being within the target range. He was addressing Parliament’s portfolio committee on finance on Friday.
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/ 21 October 2005
The Amazonian rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates, according to research published today in the journal Science. The destruction is leaving the forest more prone to fires and allowing more carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere, according to scientists.
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/ 21 October 2005
Zimbabwe has discarded its 21-month-old controlled foreign currency auction system in favour of free market trading, its central bank governor announced on Thursday. The central bank in January 2004 introduced the auction system, in which it determined the rate in a bid to narrow extreme differences between the official and parallel rates with the United States dollar and other international currencies.
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/ 21 October 2005
A recent novel, written by an Arab woman under the pseudonym Nedjma and first published in France, has become a bestseller, writes Thobile Disemelo.