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/ 12 December 2003

SA off to good start at sevens series

The South African sevens team started the Emirates Airline South African sevens tournament in impressive fashion in George at Outeniqua Park on Friday, easily beating Namibia 49-5 in their opening Pool D game. The hosts ran in seven tries on the opening day of the second leg of the International Rugby Board’s Sevens Series

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/ 12 December 2003

No easy glory for Proteas

Herschelle Gibbs is by no means the only player who needs to provide evidence of an unglamorous yet vital work ethic. It has been more than two years since a South African number five or six scored a Test century, the last one going to some bloke by the name of Lance Klusener. It’s time for the Proteas to take off the training wheels.

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/ 12 December 2003

Not enough noise

Lemmer is amused by South African government mouthpieces who regularly lambast Australia and other countries for their ”megaphone diplomacy” towards Mad Bad Bob up north, while touting our own approach. Considering how spectacularly unsuccessful the softly, softly method has been, perhaps we should rename it ”pin-drop diplomacy”.

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/ 12 December 2003

Five plus five agree to battle plan

Even as the Anglophiles battled it out in Abuja, North Africans and their European neighbours across the Mediterranean were having a summit of their own. The practically named Five-plus-Five summit in Tunis brought the presidents of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya together with their counterparts from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Malta.

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/ 12 December 2003

Williams is still focused on Sevens

New South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen has some fractious times ahead, but it will no doubt help his peace of mind to be able to actually watch some rugby when he arrives at Outeniqua Park in George on Friday for the second leg of the IRB International Sevens series.