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/ 16 February 2005
Lions captain Wikus van Heerden became the first Lions player to win the coveted player of the year award for the second consecutive year at the Golden Lions Rugby Union’s annual awards dinner held at Ellis Park Stadium on Tuesday night. The award for most promising player went to Bryan Habana.
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/ 16 February 2005
Belgium’s former world tennis number one Kim Clijsters made a victorious return to the WTA circuit after nearly four months away in Belgium on Tuesday as she downed Croatian Jelena Kostanic 6-2, 6-3 in the 000 tournament. The 21-year-old had been forced to take a rest with a serious wrist injury back in October.
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/ 16 February 2005
Tiger Woods could reclaim the world number one golf ranking from Fiji’s Vijay singh in Los Angeles this week by finishing in the top four at the PGA Nissan Open. Woods spent a record 334 weeks atop the rankings, including 264 in a row, before being dethroned last September by Singh’s victory at Boston.
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/ 16 February 2005
A collection of soccer talent not seen in at least 30 years braved near-freezing temperatures and a polar wind on Tuesday, displaying their skills for an exhibition all-star match in hopes of raising -million for victims of December’s south-east Asian tsunamis. Barcelona’s Ronaldinho led his team of mostly non-European stars to victory.
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/ 16 February 2005
Brian Pottinger, CEO of Johnnic Communications (Africa), takes a strong interest in the video CDs sold on the streets of Lagos. As well he should, being head of the South African media company’s foray into other parts of Africa. "Just two days after the international release of <i>The Passion of the Christ</i>, the street vendors in Lagos were selling pirate copies," says Pottinger.
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/ 16 February 2005
South Korea told United States officials it has no plans to launch ”large-scale” economic cooperation with North Korea before the dispute over the communist state’s nuclear weapons programme is resolved, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 February 2005
Black economic empowerment (BEE) group Izingwe Capital, which has investments in mining beneficiation, financial services and power and engineering will acquire a 25% stake in Peters Papers, the merchant division of listed packaging group Nampak.
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/ 16 February 2005
Benedict Vilakazi has been suspended as Orlando Pirates’ captain after he appeared on a rape charge in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court on Tuesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. The Bafana Bafana player was granted bail of R10 000.
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/ 16 February 2005
A new strain of HIV — resistant to three of the four classes of antiretroviral drugs available — has been identified in New York, say officials.
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/ 16 February 2005
Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o was named African footballer of the year for the second consecutive time on Tuesday. The announcement in Durban came as no surprise after Eto’o told teammates of his impending triumph after a friendly match against Senegal in France last week and several journalists overheard the conversation.