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/ 24 September 2004
Top South African side Santos are hoping for their second Confederation Cup Group B victory when they meet Cotonsport in Cameroon on Saturday. Supersport United have pledged to cause an upset by beating Tunisian giants Esperance for their African Champions League match.
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/ 24 September 2004
CEO of the United Cricket Board, Gerald Majola, says the South Africa team will tour India in November, notwithstanding the current uncertainty surrounding the Delhi Police’s reported investigation into alleged match fixing. ”At this stage the tour we proceed as scheduled,” said Majola.
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/ 24 September 2004
If United States President George W Bush were running for re-election on the basis of his stewardship of the US economy alone, he would already be packing his bags. To be blunt, by recent standards, the economy’s performance has been dismal. Some of that grimness has not been Bush’s fault — he took office in the backwash of a calamitous financial bubble. But little that the Bush team has done since has been effective or sensible in policy terms.
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/ 24 September 2004
Silver Stars have warned Ajax Cape Town to brace themselves for yet another embarrassing defeat in less than a week when they meet at Newlands Stadium on Saturday. This comes after Ajax were handed a 6-0 humiliating defeat by Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park Stadium on Wednesday.
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/ 24 September 2004
Experienced opener Justin Langer said on Friday that Australia were highly motivated to win their first Test series in India in more than three decades. Bill Lawry was the last captain to lead Australia to a Test series triumph in India way back in 1969.
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/ 23 September 2004
Meteorologists oft-times speak about the greater cycles of global weather, recurring patterns sometimes aeons apart, sometimes separated by only a few years. Why do lemmings save up the years and then, obeying some mystical signal, rush to throw themselves off the nearest precipice? Which brings me to the subject of this week’s sermon: Wherever you look these days, you will find monsters in charge.
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/ 23 September 2004
Promising transparency is one thing, but the South African government delivering it is quite another. If you want to know what is going on and have the temerity to ask, the chances are that you will simply be ignored. Rather than abide by their constitutional and statutory duty to respond to requests for public information, government agencies prefer to stick their head in the sand and hope the pesky interlocutor will go away.
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/ 23 September 2004
A top official from Sudan’s ruling party said on Thursday the government will not disarm ”Arab tribes” in the troubled Darfur region, saying they are not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia. ”The government and international community are not in agreement over the definition of the Janjaweed,” a National Congress spokesperson said.
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/ 23 September 2004
Free-to-air television station e.tv did not broadcast footage of the beheading of an American hostage in Iraq as reported on Thursday, the station said. The station’s editor-in-chief, Joe Thloloe, said on Thursday reports that stated his station had aired footage of the beheading in the manner that SABC1 did were not entirely correct.