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/ 6 February 2005
Black Leopards’ losing ways continued after they were beaten 1-0 by Orlando Pirates in a Premier Soccer League match played at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday. There was no score at half-time. Pirates could have taken the lead in the 26th minute after Tyren Arendse failed to convert a clear-cut chance.
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/ 6 February 2005
Manning Rangers’ woes continued when they were beaten 2-0 by 10-man Ajax Cape Town in a Castle Premiership encounter played at Chatsworth Stadium on Saturday night. The first goal of this dull match was netted by Thembinkosi Fanteni in the 19th minute, thanks to an excellent cross ball from Kanku Mulekelayi.
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/ 6 February 2005
Mamelodi Sundowns beat Bloemfontein Celtic 3-1 in an entertaining Castle Premier League clash played at Loftus on Saturday night. Sundowns created the first clear-cut attack of the game in the opening minutes when Siaka Tiene had his shot parried to safety by suspect Celtic goalkeeper Simon Gopane.
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/ 6 February 2005
German Michael Stich regained his winning touch with a 6-4 7-6 (4) win over Australian Pat Cash in Saturday’s opening singles rubber at the Grand Champions 2005 tournament at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Stich went down to Croatia’s Goran Ivanisevic in his opening gambit on Friday night.
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/ 6 February 2005
Defending Six Nations champion France needed a late try to beat underdog Scotland 16-9, while a long-range penalty three minutes from the end gave Wales an 11-9 victory over England on Saturday. Winger Shane Williams scored the only try as Wales, which had not beaten England in Cardiff for 12 years, took control.
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/ 6 February 2005
Masters champion Phil Mickelson made the most of young rival Kevin Na’s lapses on Saturday, capping his third round with two birdies to take a four-shot lead in the Phoenix Open. Na posted back-to-back bogeys late in the round to leave the door open for Mickelson, who followed up a sparkling second-round 60 with a 66.
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/ 6 February 2005
A University of Cape Town (UCT) associate professor died on Saturday after he was attacked and severely injured by a student, the university said. Brian Hahn (58) died at Cape Town’s Vincent Pallotti hospital shortly after 1pm, the university’s vice-chancellor, Njabulo Ndebele, said in a statement.
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/ 6 February 2005
Tourists and citizens on the Cook Islands in the South Pacific headed for emergency centres and high ground on Sunday as Cyclone Meena bore down on them packing winds gusting to 255kph, officials said. An alert from the Fiji weather centre warned of waves up to 11m high striking areas round the main islands.
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/ 6 February 2005
The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations salvaged a weekend meeting in London, threatened by a United States-European disagreement on helping out poor countries. For the first time, a G7 finance meeting has expressed a readiness to provide multilateral debt cancellation of up to 100% for some of the world’s most impoverished nations.
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/ 6 February 2005
The recent seizure of a huge collection of stolen West African art is a bright spot in the sad story of antiquities protection on the world’s poorest continent, which has robbed Africans of chapters of their history. French customs agents searching for drugs intercepted a shipment from the desert state of Niger bound for Belgium in early January.