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/ 27 February 2004
The South African Rugby Players Association has reacted to the publicising of players salaries that was made available to the media by the president of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu), Brian van Rooyen. It has called the act ”a breach of contract by Sarfu and SA Rugby”.
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/ 27 February 2004
Former Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba will make his debut as new coach of Black Leopards against his former club Orlando Pirates in the Absa Cup at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday. Mashaba, a former Pirates captain, was appointed coach of Leopards two weeks ago.
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/ 27 February 2004
Skipper Stirling Mortlock scored two tries and created another Friday as the ACT Brumbies thrashed the Cats 68-28 and moved atop the standings in the Super 12 rugby union competition. Mark Gerrard and rookie lock Mark Chisholm scored two tries apiece and Joe Roff landed nine conversions for an 18-point haul.
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/ 27 February 2004
An indefinite ban has been placed on race meetings at the Cape following the discovery of another case of horse sickness near Stellenbosch. The new case follows the outbreak at Elsenburg Agricultural College near Stellenbosch, where five horses died at the weekend.
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/ 27 February 2004
Flying Fiji winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca scored a hat-trick as reigning Super 12 champions the Auckland Blues defeated last year’s finalists the Canterbury Crusaders 38-29 on Friday. Caucaunibuca, the star of last year’s World Cup, was in scintillating form.
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/ 27 February 2004
Gus Theron was on Thursday withdrawn from the Stormers squad for Saturday’s Super 12 match against the Highlanders at Newlands. Theron trained on Wednesday afternoon without a problem, but reported that his knee was injured on Thursday morning.
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/ 27 February 2004
George Foreman built a lucrative second career making fun of his waistline and love of hamburgers. He insists he’s not joking about his latest comeback attempt at the age of 55. ”I need an adventure in my life,” Foreman said. ”At 55, it’s time to do it.”
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/ 27 February 2004
Even before the Phakisa racetrack in Welkom was built, the government was officially warned that it could incur massive losses to the taxpayer, it emerged on Friday. The Free State government has spent R424-million on Phakisa in five years. During this time the racetrack earned an operational income of a mere R7,7-million.
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/ 27 February 2004
With a lack of fuss and fanfare evident in his neat, tidy and unhurriedly sublime skills, on Saturday Dennis Bergkamp overtook Peter Schmeichel’s record for a foreign player of 252 Premiership games for one club. Surprisingly, Southampton’s Claus Lundekvam, on 245, will probably overhaul him.
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/ 27 February 2004
As if Arsenal did not have enough to enjoy from their perch at the top of the Premiership, they were given three further reasons to celebrate this week. No sooner had the club confirmed that the funding is in place to enable their new stadium to be built than Arsène Wenger announced he will extend his contract.