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/ 22 September 2005

New Chiefs ploy could backfire

Kaizer Chiefs, not content with concessions made in an appeal to the South African Football Association against the penalties imposed on the club by the Premier Soccer League for the violence and vandalism of their supporters, have informed South African soccer’s controlling body they are taking the controversial issue to arbitration.

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/ 22 September 2005

World running out of hurricane names

Hurricane Alpha? Tropical Storm Epsilon? Before this year’s frantic Atlantic hurricane season is out, television forecasters and coastal residents may have to break out their Greek dictionaries. There are only four names left for tropical storms and hurricanes this year: Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma.

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/ 22 September 2005

Satisfied Museveni bemoans African trade

Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for almost 20 years, the past nine as an elected president, says he has accomplished much of what he set out to do but still can’t shake his country’s lack of an industrial sector. He was addressing the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent foreign-policy think tank in Washington, DC.

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/ 22 September 2005

Zim authorities deny threats to seize maize

Zimbabwe authorities on Wednesday denied earlier press reports that Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono had issued a threat to seize maize from individuals. The reports had said Gono had suggested the launch of ”Operation Bring Back Maize” to force people to hand over their maize stocks to the state-controlled Grain Marketing Board.

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/ 22 September 2005

Sundowns claim top spot in league

Mamelodi Sundowns surged to the top of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) with an inspiring 1-0 victory over Bloemfontein Celtic at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Wednesday night. In other matches, Santos and Dynamos played to a draw, as did Leopards and Swallows, and Bush Bucks beat Ajax Cape Town.

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/ 22 September 2005

Woods leads the charge in Virginia

World number one Tiger Woods and handpicked partner Fred Couples face South African Retief Goosen and Australian Adam Scott in a crucial opening showdown on Thursday in Gainesville, Virginia, at the Presidents Cup. The sixth edition of the clash between 12-man International and United States squads begins with six foursomes matches.

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/ 22 September 2005

ANC MPs’ houses looted

Just hours after Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula told the nation that burglaries at commercial and residential properties were down, his own party’s caucus was bemoaning the fact that there had been ”a spate of burglaries at parliamentary residential villages” in Cape Town.

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/ 22 September 2005

Writers sue Google for copyright infringement

A group representing more than 8 000 United States writers is suing Google, alleging that the company’s attempt to digitise the book collections of several major libraries represents massive copyright infringement. The Google Print Library programme is aimed at creating a searchable library of all the world’s printed books.