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/ 20 December 2004
Lightning claimed the lives of an initiate and a traditional nurse in the Cofimvaba area at the weekend, police said on Sunday. Superintendent Gcinikaya Taleni said initiate Bantom Bonga (19) and traditional nurse Salele Mbali (42) were killed when lightning struck their grass hut at Mthingwevu at about 5pm on Friday.
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/ 20 December 2004
The pressure on the beleaguered United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, intensified on Sunday and threatened to taint his main supporter in Washington, George Bush. David Hackworth, a retired US army colonel turned writer, reported that Rumsfeld had used a mechanical signature writer to sign his name on letters of condolence to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former Drum magazine editor Anthony Sampson has died at his Wiltshire cottage in Britain on Saturday night, his family said on Sunday. A family friend said Sampson, who was born in 1926, died of a heart attack. Sampson wrote Mandela’s authorised biography, Mandela, in 1999, and was a close friend of author Nadine Gordimer.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former South African women’s hockey coach Ros Howell relinquished her post a week ago, but South African hockey officials have still not decided on a permanent replacement. A frantic search in the past few months has yielded little reward with few obvious local candidates, and now the net has been cast overseas.
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/ 20 December 2004
South Africa fought back brilliantly on the third day of the first Castle Lager/MTN Test against England at St George’s Park on Sunday to finish the day with a small lead and nine wickets in hand, with two days left to play. South Africa looked down and out at the end of the second day, with England on 227 for one.
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/ 20 December 2004
Manchester United soccer great Eric Cantona has joined the chorus of opposition to Malcolm Glazer’s intended takeover of the club. With Glazer reportedly putting together a second takeover offer some time this week, the French star told Man United fans on their own television station that Glazer should ”stay in America and buy Coca-Cola”.
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/ 20 December 2004
Argentinian Oscar Fullone is most likely to rejoin South Africa’s most expensively assembled football outfit, Mamelodi Sundowns. This follows speculation current coach Paul Dolezar is on his way out following a series of poor results in the past few days. Most recent was a shock 2-1 defeat by Black Leopards on Saturday.
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/ 20 December 2004
Sol Campbell scored a rare goal from 25 yards on Sunday as Arsenal captured a 1-0 victory at Portsmouth to regain second place in the Premier League and cut Chelsea’s lead to five points. Everton dropped two points on Saturday when they were held 0-0 by struggling Blackburn.
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/ 20 December 2004
Simon Jones, with an impressive spell of four wickets for 18 runs in seven overs and one delivery, put England in command of the first Castle Lager/MTN Test against South Africa at St George’s Park on Monday. The afternoon session turned into a nightmare as Jones cut a swathe through the South African batting order.
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/ 20 December 2004
Bloemfontein Celtic added woes to the troubled Jomo Cosmos when they beat them 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League match at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Phokeng on Sunday. Cosmos are hanging at second from the bottom of the log after they suffered their sixth defeat.