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/ 5 January 2001

Thobela gets cold shoulder in Canada

Deon Potgieter boxing Dingaan Thobela has appealed to the World Boxing Council (WBC) to declare his super-middleweight world title fight against Dave Hilton in Canada last month a no contest. Thobela is not contesting the ludicrous split points decision which robbed him of his title, but rather the gross neglect of world boxing regulations. Dave […]

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/ 5 January 2001

The flat-track trap

South African groundsmen are preparing pitches to last the full five days but the lack of variety might kill off interest in Test cricket Peter Robinson When a batsman who has just scored 180 in a Test match wonders publicly whether the type of pitch he’s just scored his runs on really suits his side, […]

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/ 5 January 2001

‘Bitches’ attack sexy adverts

Jon Henley in Paris As controversy rages in Britain and South Africa over the Steven Maisels’s sexy Sophie Dahl advertisement for Opium perfume, French feminists are turning up the heat in their war on a national ad industry that has long considered bare breasts an appropriate way to advertise anything from lawnmowers to low-fat margarine. […]