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/ 7 February 2000

US BEAT ZIM TO REACH QUARTERS

THE US, led by new captain John McEnroe, fought back from 2-1 down to beat Zimbabwe 3-2 on Sunday and reach the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup. Cup debutant Chris Woodruff applied the killer touch after world number one Andre Agassi had beaten Byron Black in straight sets, knocking off Wayne Black 6-3 6-7 6-2 […]

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/ 7 February 2000

‘WE CAN’T LOSE’ — NIGERIAN SKIPPER

TITLE favourites Nigeria meet surprise packets Senegal on Monday in what appears the most one-sided quarter-final of the African Nations Cup. While the Super Eagles line-up could be mistaken for the African All Stars, the Lions do not possess one footballer who would be immediately recognisable outside the West African country. “We are the best […]

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/ 7 February 2000

KIPKETER BREAKS 1000M INDOOR RECORD

WILSON Kipketer broke the men’s 1000m indoor world record when he clocked two minutes 15.25 seconds at an international athletics meeting on Sunday. Kenyan-born Kipketer, who is now a Danish citizen, bettered by one hundredth of a second the previous best mark of 2:15.26 set by Algerian Noureddine Morceli in February 1992 in Birmingham.

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/ 7 February 2000

HYUNDAI KOREA ULIKELY TO HOUNOUR WARRANTIES

HYUNDAI Korea is unlikely to honour warranties and service plans for many of the 80000 Hyundai vehicles, even though a consortium of banks and creditors is due to sign a deal with the Korean company on Monday. Business Day reports that Super Group, a key contender, pulled out of bidding citing sensitive conditions put on […]

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/ 7 February 2000

ADDO GETS ITS FENCE CUT

THE Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape is to be expanded on Monday at a fence-cutting ceremony attended by the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa. The idea of expanding the park into a huge super-reserve stretching to the coastline has generally been welcomed in the Eastern Cape – although some […]

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/ 7 February 2000

AMAGLUG-GLUG WHIPPED BY ANGOLA

SOUTH Africa’s under-23 soccer team were beaten 2-1 by Angola in their pre-Olympic qualifying friendly at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Saturday. The South Africans looked firmly in control and seemed to be heading for an easy victory, but the tide turned sharply. The visitors, who have been in South Africa for four weeks […]

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/ 7 February 2000

BLUE TRAINS UP FOR GRABS

THE luxury Blue Trains are to be sold as they need international expertise and a high level of marketing required to keep them running. Spoornet CE Zandile Jakavula said that the two trains have been identified by Spoornet as assets that need international management to maintain their high profile. The 18-wagon Blue Trains travel between […]

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/ 7 February 2000

Brothels get the heat

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. THE Assets Forfeiture Unit threatened over the weekend to clamp down on “gentlemen’s clubs” across the country, if they don’t clean up their act. The warning follows a raid on a high-class Gauteng brothel, The Ranch, which has been provisionally attached. It is now being managed by a curator, […]

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/ 7 February 2000

Cameroon beat Algerian to reach semis

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Sunday 6.30pm. FORMER champions Cameroon survived a nervous finish to defeat Algeria 2-1 in Accra on Sunday in the first quarter-final of the African Nations Cup. Early goals from Samuel Eto’o and Marc-Vivien Foe put the 1984 and 1988 winners in command only to relinquish the initiative in the second half […]

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/ 7 February 2000

Court rules against Stanbic

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm STANDARD Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) on Monday lost its high court bid to have its proposed acquisition by smaller rival Nedcor adjudicated by the Competition Commission. Pretoria High Court Acting Judge Nico Coetzee ruled that the minister of finance has the final say about the proposed the hostile […]