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/ 11 December 2004
Ajax Cape Town had to wait until the 89th minute before they gained a 1-0 win and maximum points in their Premier League game against Golden Arrows at a wind-swept Athlone Stadium on Friday night. Brent Carlse’s 20m drive after finally breaking through gave Arrows goalkeeper Daniel Phiri no chance.
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/ 11 December 2004
The story of Friday’s second round at the Dunhill Championship was more about the losers than the winners. After shooting a five-under-par 67 on Thursday to lie one shot off leader Bruce McDonald of Zimbabwe at the Leopard Creek Golf Course, tournament favourite Ernie Els played a slovenly back nine on Friday to shoot a three-over-par 75.
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/ 10 December 2004
Holiday on ice takes on new meaning when you’re high above the rooftops of Paris doing figure eights inside the Eiffel Tower. During the 115 years of the Eiffel Tower’s existence, it has added refreshment stands, trinket shops and fancy restaurants — but nothing quite matches the skating rink in the sky that opened to the public on Friday.
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/ 10 December 2004
A 10th-century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple’s cat sold for £175 000 (about R1,95-million) at auction on Friday. The stone had been found in a quarry years ago by Johnny Beeston, from Somerset, south-west United Kingdom.
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/ 10 December 2004
The Incrediblesthe new animation from the mighty Pixar stable (Finding Nemo; Toy Story) really is pretty incredible, Peter Bradshaw reviews.
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/ 10 December 2004
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) on Friday agreed to cut production back to target production levels early next year, delegates said, in a bid by the organisation’s 11 member states to stave off further falls in the world price while trying to avoid a new frenzy of buying.
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/ 10 December 2004
A bomb apparently targeting a military truck killed nine people, including a soldier, and injured at least 21 when it ripped through a market in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, officials said. The device, believed to have been attached to a bicycle, exploded near the vehicle in the main Mizaan Chowk commercial district of the city.
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/ 10 December 2004
Resolution of South Africa’s ”national question”, centred on building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, is essential to avoid conflict, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The controversy relating to the operations of the South African National Blood Service has highlighted the racist legacy that continues to blight South Africa.
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/ 10 December 2004
Durban’s oldest township is the venue for its newest festival, writes Grant Clark.
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/ 10 December 2004
<i>The Closest of Strangers</i> takes one on a historic journey of South Africa with women as the key navigators, writes MaQueen Motuba.