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/ 12 March 2000

Ganguly century lifts India to win over SA

HIMGANSHU WATTS, Jamshedpur | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN captain Saurav Ganguly hit an aggressive 105 not out to lead India to a six-wicket win in a one-day international against South Africa on Sunday and a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. South Africa, who won the toss and batted, were dismissed for 199 and India reached […]

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/ 12 March 2000

Waratahs thrash Cats

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Saturday 1.00pm. THE New South Wales Waratahs recorded their biggest win in four years on Saturday, thrashing the Cats 51-16 in a one-sided Super 12 clash at the Sydney Football Stadium. The Waratahs ran in six tries, including five in the second half, to register their biggest winning margin since the […]

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/ 11 March 2000

Bungu hungry for victory

ALAN BALDWIN, London | Friday 10.45am. NASEEM Hamed confidently predicted on Thursday that he would silence his critics and beat South Africa’s Vuyani Bungu in style when he defends his WBO featherweight title on Saturday. ”I do believe there’s going to be a stoppage or a knockout but I can’t give you a prediction of […]

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/ 10 March 2000

M&G reporter scoops award

Mail & Guardian journalist Donna Block has won the inaugural Citadel Personal Finance Journalist of the Year award for the print media category. The awards are given in two categories: print and electronic media. The judges decided the quality of entries into the latter category did not justify naming a winner. The overall award was […]

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/ 10 March 2000

The shy and cautious trader

Mark Atkinson SHAREWORLD Nick Leeson may have been a brash, high-risk gambler prepared to bet Barings Bank on a rise in the Japanese stock market but, on the whole, London traders are a shy and conservative breed, according to new research published this week. Based on in-depth interviews with the London staff of four of […]

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/ 10 March 2000

Traders arrested after reporting crime

Connie Selebogo Three Senegalese art traders, who claim they were assaulted at the Cradock street market in Rosebank last month by bogus policemen, are due in court next week – not as witnesses but as suspects. The traders, who are being tried on assault charges lodged by their alleged attackers, say the police initially opposed […]

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/ 10 March 2000

Trapped in trees … with bugs and snakes

Chris McGreal The first sign of life from one of the trees speckled across the vast new lake that is southern Mozambique was an arm thrust from among the leaves. The anonymous limb waved a cooking pot, not with any great vigour, for fear of upsetting the precarious balance of life under the foliage. But […]

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/ 10 March 2000

Triumph of planning and hope

Neil Manthorp Planning was something that South Africa’s cricket teams weren’t able to do in the past because they had no experience of what they were planning for. It was like packing for a weekend trip to the moon – should you take sandwiches? Does it get cold in the evenings? This time, with three […]