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/ 15 September 2005
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) and its publishing partner Highbury Safika Media on Wednesday dismissed media reports of a breakdown in their relationship and of pending legal action over the trade name of SA Rugby magazine. ”We have made no threats,” said Saru CEO Johan Prinsloo.
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/ 15 September 2005
LJ van Zyl, South Africa’s brilliant 20-year-old 400m hurdler, has escalated from sixth to joint third place in the latest International Association of Athletics Federations world rankings released by the world body in Monaco on Wednesday. The highest-ranked South African athlete is Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (second in the 800m).
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/ 15 September 2005
United States Open champion Michael Campbell said on Wednesday he found it strange that so many top players had turned down the chance to win the largest first prize in golf at this week’s World Match Play Championship. The 42nd annual edition of the autumn classic, offering a first prize of £1-million, begins on Thursday.
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/ 15 September 2005
Black Leopards made a mockery of the obscure ”two team” policy of Mamelodi Sundowns coach Angel Cappa at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Wednesday night and gained a well-deserved 1-0 victory over a mauled Brazilians combination. Ajax Cape Town, playing with 10 men for 51 minutes, deservedly beat Moroka Swallows 2-1.
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/ 15 September 2005
Barcelona got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start on Wednesday with a comfortable 2-0 defeat of Werder Bremen in group C. Wednesday’s other winners included Udinese, Arsenal, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Benfica, and Manchester United drew 0-0 with Villarreal.
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/ 15 September 2005
Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and a 3,3m storm surge. ”If you have not heeded the warning before, let me be clear right now: Ophelia is a dangerous storm,” Governor Mike Easley said.
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/ 15 September 2005
”United States President George Bush and other world leaders have been speaking today, on the first day of the United Nations World Summit, about what the summit has achieved .. The presidents and prime ministers were ushered with police escorts while helicopters flew overhead,” writes Grace Mukagabiro.
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/ 15 September 2005
At least 20 people were killed in a new suicide car bombing in Baghdad on Thursday, one day after up to 150 people died in a series of car bombings, local police said. The dead included at least 15 police officers and five civilians, while another 21 people were injured, the BBC reported.
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/ 15 September 2005
The South African government will not interfere in Transnet’s bid to find a broad-based empowerment partner to buy the parastatal’s 5% stake in the MTN Group, it emerged on Wednesday — a day after Transnet announced it had ended months of talks with Umthunzi Telecoms Consortium.
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/ 15 September 2005
As many as 18 000 people dead. More than -billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That’s not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina’s toll on the Gulf Coast. That’s a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.