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/ 21 September 2005
A group of Somali asylum seekers have arrived in Zimbabwe after a six-month trek over 4 000km from their Horn of African nation, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. said ”at least” 26 Somalis, including two women, had surrendered to police in Harare on Monday after ”trickling into the country” in smaller groups from Mozambique.
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/ 21 September 2005
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
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
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
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
Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday night lost their appeal at a South African Football Association (Safa) hearing against the R145Â 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
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.
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/ 21 September 2005
Less than 24 hours after signing up to a draft agreement to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, the government in Pyongyang threw the negotiating process into disarray yesterday by declaring that it would not abolish its atomic weapons programme until it had been given a light-water reactor.
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/ 21 September 2005
Iran has yet again raised the stakes in its long stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme and the risk of being referred to the United Nations Security Council, but this time the hardline regime does not appear to be bluffing. The Islamic republic’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, vowed on Tuesday to respond to being hauled to New York by resuming uranium enrichment work.
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/ 21 September 2005
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s governor says the poor way in which new farmers are using land is ”criminal”, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. ”It is criminal, the manner in which we are using land,” Gono told a parliamentary committee.