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/ 28 January 2005

Chiefs should focus on Africa

With prospects of retaining the Premier Soccer League title receding fast, Kaizer Chiefs need to salvage something from what remains of the season. Though participating in two finals and winning one of them might be a great achievement for many clubs, for Chiefs and their fanatical supporters this is not enough.

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/ 28 January 2005

SA cricket pins hopes on De Villiers

So seamlessly has De Villiers adjusted to international cricket that it’s easy to forget he’s just 20 years old. By comparison, Jacques Kallis was also 20 when he first played Test cricket. After five matches, he averaged eight with the bat and questions about his ability to survive at the highest level were widespread.

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/ 28 January 2005

Harry’s pain at leaving Pompey

Ahead of Saturday’s highly charged FA Cup clash with the club he left two months ago, Southampton manager Harry Redknapp tells Donald McRae about the pain of his new job. Despite Southampton’s welcome 2-0 defeat of a woeful Liverpool last Saturday, the struggle has merely intensified.

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/ 28 January 2005

More than black vs white

”Blacks don’t have an identity in South African rugby because of the complexities of what constitutes black. Black is not coloured and coloured is not black. While this debate continues, the white conservatives sit back and play the role of puppeteer.” Former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane writes for the Mail & Guardian.

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/ 28 January 2005

Come hail, come snow …

Postal workers in the south-eastern French city of Saint Etienne refused to do their rounds on Thursday after they were denied extra pay to cope with the biting winter cold, employees and management said. About 70 of the workers did not deliver mail to homes and businesses.

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/ 28 January 2005

Hearings could implicate 70 more MPs

As criminal proceedings hang over 40 MPs linked to Travelgate, Parliament’s multimillion-rand travel voucher scam, liquidation hearings that could implicate a further 70 parliamentarians are stuck in the Cape High Court. The 40 MPs currently involved in plea bargaining negotiations with the Scorpions were clients of two travel agencies that have been liquidated.