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/ 21 September 2005

Hurricane Rita grows stronger

Storm-weary residents prepared to flee devastated New Orleans on Wednesday as powerful Hurricane Rita threatened the United States Gulf Coast three weeks after Katrina’s deadly passage. US meteorologists upgraded Rita early on Wednesday to a powerful category-three category on the five-level hurricane-intensity scale.

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/ 21 September 2005

Bush Bucks coach quits

Bush Bucks coach Professor Ngubane dropped a bombshell on Wednesday when he announced his resignation following a string of poor results. The announcement came ahead of Bucks’ crucial Premier Soccer League game against Ajax Cape Town at Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.

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/ 21 September 2005

Okay, George, have you got a girlfriend?

Being friends with George makes certain demands upon one’s patience. Most of the time, in one-to-one conversation, he’s chatty enough, and sometimes even witty. He’s prone to sudden outbursts of hostility, and to interrupting serious conversations about politics or morality to yell incomprehensibly about Joan Crawford or The Da Vinci Code.

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/ 21 September 2005

Rossi: ‘I will be riding to win’

World champion Valentino Rossi says he is confident of capturing his seventh MotoGP world title in Malaysia this weekend, after crashing out of the Japanese Grand Prix last week. ”I am not feeling any more pressure than before and I will be riding to win at every round,” the 26-year-old Yamaha rider said in an e-mail.

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/ 21 September 2005

JSE down on rand, gold, resources

The JSE declined on Wednesday due to the stronger rand as well as the decline in gold and resources stocks, brokers said. By 11.40am, the all share index was down 0,23%, industrials lost 0,07%, financials added 0,03%, resources fell 0,56%, the gold mining index declined 0,12%, the platinum mining index climbed 0,4% and the banks index fell 0,17%.

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/ 21 September 2005

Still no luck for Kaizer Chiefs

Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday night lost their appeal at a South African Football Association (Safa) hearing against the R145 000 fine and effective two-game ban on spectators attending two of their home games. Media reports on Wednesday said Chiefs are now considering an arbitration route.

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/ 21 September 2005

Fewer fans buying English soccer tickets

Soaring ticket prices, saturation television coverage and stifling tactics are all being blamed for a sharp drop in attendances at English Premiership matches over the first month of the season. Nine of the 17 teams that were in the top flight last season have seen spectator numbers drop in the opening weeks of the current campaign.