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/ 19 September 2005
"It was clever of our head instructor Mark Allison to start the 4-Rings Driving Academy’s High Performance Driving Course with a little lecture about driver etiquette considering some of the participants looked like Fernando Alonso wannabes whose only interest was putting those pedals to the metal," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 19 September 2005
South Africa’s home-grown fuel giant Sasol published its annual results recently against the background of continuing high fuel prices and intensifying debate over how well the current regulatory regime serves the country. Pump prices internationally are in the spotlight.
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/ 19 September 2005
"Politics and money are, for better or worse, inseparable. It is a reality of modern politics that parties require significant funds to operate in any meaningful way. The Constitution provides specifically for a ‘multiparty democracy’. It seeks to ensure that the widest plurality of political views are given expression," writes leader of the United Democratic Movement Bantu Holomisa.
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/ 19 September 2005
”Never again. They say ‘never say never’, but starting a political party is no joke. It takes years off your life and demands so much of yourself. I was with the Pan Africanist Congress for most of my political career, and attempted to do my part for all in South Africa,” writes Patricia de Lille, leader of the Independent Democrats.
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/ 19 September 2005
Germany was plunged into uncertainty on Sunday night when the leaders of the two main parties claimed they could become chancellor after neither won a majority in the general election. The result was a blow to the conservative challenger, Angela Merkel, whose party started the campaign with a 21-point lead.
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/ 19 September 2005
Thousands of Neapolitans crowded the Italian city’s cathedral on Monday to see what they believe to be the dried blood of their patron saint liquefy in a glass vial. The alleged ”miracle”, which has been taking place almost without fail for centuries, is seen as a sign that San Gennaro still loves them.
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/ 18 September 2005
World number five Retief Goosen looked anything but his ranking as he crashed out seven and six against Michael Campbell in the semifinal of the World Match Play Championship in Wentworth on Saturday. It set the New Zealander up for a final showdown with Ireland’s Paul McGinley.
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/ 18 September 2005
A car bomb killed at least 30 and wounded 38 on Saturday on the outskirts of Baghdad in what appeared to be the latest attack on Iraq’s majority Shi’ite population, a security official said. More than 200 Iraqi Shi’ites have been killed this week in attacks by Sunni extremists linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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/ 18 September 2005
Hernan Crespo and Arjen Robben scored in five second-half minutes on Saturday to give Chelsea a 2-0 win over second-place Charlton and open up a six-point lead in the Premier League. Tottenham had a chance to go third but were held to a 1-1 draw by Aston Villa and had to hit back from going a goal down after four minutes.
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/ 18 September 2005
Tembisa Classic collected maximum points when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-0 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday night. In a poor display of soccer played at Cape Town’s Athlone Stadium, both Santos and Black Leopards failed to score.