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/ 23 February 2005
The Sharks will have a completely new-look loose-forward trio for their opening 2005 Vodacom Super 12 rugby fixture against the Stormers at Newlands on Friday night. Jacques Botes, Braam Immelman and Jaco Gouws, who will wear the skipper’s tag, got the nod from coach Kevin Putt in the starting line-up.
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/ 23 February 2005
Once a year, amateur clubs from all over the country dream of glory — a chance to take on the big boys, to face a professional side, to match skills with the best South Africa has to offer. There is one competition in the country that can turn such dreams into reality. That competition is the Absa Cup.
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/ 23 February 2005
A 1-0 home leg win over Juventus leaves record European champions Real Madrid well placed to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In other action, a brace from Claudio Pizarro helped Bayern Munich down Arsenal 3-1, PSV Eindhoven beat AS Monaco 1-0 and Liverpool continued to save their best perform for Europe, beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 at Anfield.
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/ 23 February 2005
Brazilian Alex scored early on to earn dominating PSV Eindhoven a 1-0 Champions League home victory at the Philips Stadium over hapless Monaco, who did well to keep down the winning scoreline on Tuesday. PSV, inspired by midfielder Mark van Bommel, had countless chances in the first half but only managed Alex’s eighth-minute goal.
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/ 23 February 2005
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has acknowledged his team need to defend much better if they are to have any chance of overcoming Bayern Munich to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Arsenal fell to a 3-1 defeat in the last 16 encounter in Munich on Tuesday as their brittle defence was torn apart by Bayern.
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/ 23 February 2005
As the formula-one season is about to start, Michael Schumacher is once again the overwhelming favourite and few would bet against him adding yet another title to his already impressive array of trophies. He is confident that he can add another. ”I am feeling even stronger now than I did at the beginning of my career,” he says.
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/ 23 February 2005
South African teams have yet to break the Australasian lock on the Super 12, and 2005 offers a final chance before the southern hemisphere’s premier provincial rugby championship expands. A year before a fifth African franchise and a fourth from Australia join the competition, South Africa’s outlook on this Super 12 campaign is tinged with optimism.
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/ 23 February 2005
South Africa’s CPIX inflation (headline inflation excluding mortgage costs) was up 3,6% year-on-year (y/y) for metro and other areas in January compared with 4,3% y/y in December, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. Nico Kelder, economist at Efficient Group, said: "It is a good number — in line with what we expected."
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/ 23 February 2005
The trade union Solidarity on Wednesday said it is to ask mining group Kumba Resources to impose a two-year moratorium on retrenchments. The trade union claimed that Kumba is persisting with the retrenchment of 400 workers in spite of a very profitable financial year. The request will form part of Solidarity’s Save the Workers campaign.
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/ 23 February 2005
The United States State Department on Tuesday accused Zimbabwe of a ”pattern of intimidation” of journalists amid reports some foreign newsmen had fled the country after being questioned by the authorities. Spokesperson Richard Boucher also said the the forthcoming parliamentary elections needed to be ”free and fair”.