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/ 6 September 2004
Italian Valentino Rossi, known as ”Il Dottore”, won the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday, racing the 28 laps of the 4,182km circuit in 46 minutes and 34,911 seconds into his fourth consecutive victory. Japan’s Makoto Tamada, who took the pole position, finished second with 46:40,022.
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/ 6 September 2004
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter will be calling up Manchester United star Quinton Fortune and Danish-based winger Sibusiso Zuma for next month’s vital group two World Cup qualifier against Uganda in Kampala. Bafana were beaten 1-0 by the Democratic Republic of Congo in Sunday’s World Cup qualifier.
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/ 6 September 2004
My gut instinct tells me that I should not really be bothered to respond to Ronald Suresh Roberts’s garbled response to my comments on his low-intensity war with Nadine Gordimer, who recently withdrew her “authorisation” for his long-awaited biography of herself. But since he now appears to have further set himself up as the sole authorised spokesperson of the so-called “African diaspora” (whatever that is) as well, I suppose I should make the effort.
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/ 6 September 2004
Former anti-apartheid cleric Dr Beyers Naude was in a critical condition in the frail care unit at a retirement village in Johannesburg on Monday. ”My father is very ill due to his age. We don’t know what to expect,” Naude’s eldest son Johann said on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2004
The possibility of a public sector strike loomed on Monday as both the government and trade unions refused to move on pay negotiations. With weeks to go before the matric exams, teachers and other public sector employees including police and nurses, threatened to go on strike if their salary demands were not met by Thursday.
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/ 6 September 2004
Capetonians Graeme Solomon and Dawid Mocke triumphed over a desperately low river to win the Men’s Health/New Balance Breede River canoe marathon on Sunday. Solomon and Mocke finished the tough river marathon out of sight of runners-up Shaun Rubenstein and Michael Mbanjwa.
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/ 5 September 2004
President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday joined the global community in expressing condemnation of the horrific hostage drama at a school in Beslan, Russia this week. ”It is with great shock and sadness that we have learnt of the loss of lives in the incident in Beslan yesterday (Friday)”, he said in a statement.
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/ 5 September 2004
A total of 5 138 firearms, mostly illegal have been destroyed during an ongoing firearm operation since last year in the Western Cape. Police spokesperson Superintendent Riaan Pool said the ongoing operation started on September 2003 and has seen about 967 people being arrested for possession of illegal firearms.
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/ 5 September 2004
State prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea have requested permission to question Mark Thatcher over his alleged involvement in a coup attempt on President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The prosecutors would only gain access to Thatcher once his legal team had examined the list of questions they want to ask him.