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/ 22 February 2005

Mandela wanted to help with Zuma’s debt

Former president Nelson Mandela offered to help to ”extinguish” the debt of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Testifying at his fraud and corruption trial on Tuesday, Schabir Shaik said Mandela felt Zuma’s financial problems were ”distracting him from his duties at the African National Congress”.

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/ 22 February 2005

Mbeki’s challenge to African intellectuals

African intellectuals who had sat on the sidelines while the New Partnership for Africa’s Development was prepared, and complained about not being consulted, should now stand up and be counted. This was the challenge of President Thabo Mbeki, who addressed the 11th General Conference of the Association of African Universities in Cape Town on Tuesday.

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/ 22 February 2005

Police block protesting Jo’burg students

Student leaders at the University of Johannesburg’s Bunting Road campus were regrouping on Tuesday morning after being banned from marching to the nearby former Rand Afrikaans University campus. Earlier, a large police contingent blocked the route the students were expecting to take in three waiting buses.

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/ 22 February 2005

New York puts best foot forward for IOC

New York officials on Monday began their pitch to host the 2012 summer Olympic Games in a series of meetings with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his deputy, Daniel Doctoroff, led a team of experts in the field of sports to meet with the IOC’s 13-member evaluation commission.

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/ 22 February 2005

Freitag flying high

World high-jump champion Jacques Freitag was back on the winning trail on Sunday when he defeated a strong international field at the 2005 Tallinn Indoor Jumping Gala with a height of 2,28m. His win came after a lacklustre performance at the Stockholm meeting last Tuesday when he could not manage a height better than 2,21m.

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/ 22 February 2005

Zim cricket rebel back in the squad

Zimbabwean rebel cricketer Andy Blignaut has rejoined his country’s cricket squad and signed a contract, following his axing last year over a row about racial bias in selection, Zimbabwe Cricket said on Monday. Blignaut is one of 15 mainly senior players who were sacked after they demanded the reinstatement of former captain Heath Streak.

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/ 22 February 2005

Scott victorious at shortened PGA event

Australia’s Adam Scott rolled home a three-footer on the first play-off hole to defeat Chad Campbell Monday at the PGA Tour’s rain-shortened Los Angeles event. Because inclement weather forced organisers to shorten the event to 36 holes, it won’t count as an official victory, although Scott did earn the full first prize of  000.

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/ 22 February 2005

Last rounds for Lord’s Tavern

For years, it has been as much a feature for many fans of attending a match at Lord’s Cricket Ground as the Pavilion, the slope on the pitch and the Father Time weather vane. But this season, spectators wanting to reflect after a day’s international play in the Lord’s Tavern pub will, for the most part, have to drink somewhere else.

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/ 22 February 2005

Hayden helps Australia thrash New Zealand

Australian opener Matthew Hayden returned to his majestic best with a superb century as the world champions trounced New Zealand by 106 runs in the second one-day international on Tuesday. After being sent in to bat on a placid Jade Stadium pitch, Hayden lashed 114 off 124 balls, including 12 fours and two sixes.