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/ 15 February 2005
After two years in the wilderness after a drugs test that went sour, talented Sharks flyhalf Herkie Kruger is back in the frame and the controlling body has once again got his signature on paper. A delighted Sharks coach Kevin Putt said: ”He is now available to play and this is hugely exciting for us.”
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/ 15 February 2005
France coach Bernard Laporte paid little heed to the 18-17 victory over England on Monday when he recalled three of last year’s Six Nations Grand Slam heroes for the crucial clash with Wales on February 26. He recalled number eight Imanol Harinordoquy, winger Aurelien Rougerie and centre Yannick Jauzion, France’s player of the year.
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/ 15 February 2005
Clay-court kings Juan Carlos Ferrero and Guillermo Coria broadened their tennis horizons with convincing opening-round victories indoors at the €782 250 Rotterdam Cup on Monday. Ferrero and Coria have both abandoned the inviting red-dirt events of South America this month to polish their indoor fitness in Europe.
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/ 15 February 2005
Arsenal celebrated fielding their first-ever all-foreign squad by thrashing relegation-threatened Crystal Palace 5-1 in London on Monday. Thierry Henry scored twice to record a memorable 200th Premiership appearance for the Gunners. Palace’s leading scorer Andy Johnson scored a penalty for the visitors.
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/ 15 February 2005
The Galle Cricket Stadium was one of the most breathtaking Test venues, but the December 26 tsunami has exposed its vulnerability and brought down the curtain on Sri Lanka’s ”lucky” ground. Cricket officials are looking for an alternative venue to the stadium that the national team had considered lucky.
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/ 15 February 2005
As inspectors from the International Olympic Committee arrive in London to examine the city’s bid to host the 2012 Games, those behind the British capital’s attempt to stage the world’s most famous sports festival believe they are starting to close the gap on long-time favourites Paris.
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/ 15 February 2005
Schabir Shaik’s brothers, Mo and Yunus, have asked former journalist Ranjeni Munusamy to sit in on his fraud and corruption trial with the possibility of becoming his media advisor, she told the South African Press Association on Monday. ”I have observer status with the defence team,” she said while leaving the Durban High Court.
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/ 15 February 2005
An unlikely partnership of property owners, Congolese refugees and the pioneer gentrifiers have decided to turn Muizenberg around. They formed a residents’ committee to lobby the council, which launched a vigorous campaign to enforce the by-laws and set up a Muizenberg Improvement District. But while gentrification means upward mobility for some, it moves others to the margins of society.
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/ 15 February 2005
The African National Congress in Tshwane’s rejection of a proposal raised in its ranks to remove the name Pretoria was welcomed by the Democratic Alliance in the city on Tuesday. ”If the move to remove Pretoria had gone ahead it would have had serious, irreversible repercussions to national reconciliation,” said DA regional chairperson Gert Pretorius.
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/ 15 February 2005
Financial services group Investec has raised R1-billion via its public offer of preference shares, increasing the number of new shares issued from five million to 10-million to help meet demand for the shares. Combined with its previous private placement totalling R1,3-billion, the group has raised R2,3-billion via preference share issues.