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/ 20 December 2006
The wrath of the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee has come down heavily on Supersport United’s Pitso Mosimane and Andre Arendse — with the coach and goalkeeper being suspended and handed heavy fines. The protracted case related to the Premier League game in which Sundowns were beaten 1-0 by Black Leopards at Thohoyandou last week.
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/ 20 December 2006
Former international opening batsman and member of the Transvaal ”Mean Machine”, Jimmy Cook, has no doubt that South Africa will bounce back from their humiliating defeat by India and win the Castle Lager Test series. ”Every team has a blow-out from time to time,” he said.
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/ 20 December 2006
Benni McCarthy has praised Uefa for dishing out a five-match ban to Wisla Krakow’s Nikola Mijailovic, the Serbian defender who was found guilty of racially abusing him during a Uefa Cup match in October. ”I was pleased with the way the situation was handled,” Blackburn’s South African forward said.
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/ 20 December 2006
The European Union recently gave the go-ahead for paid-for content in its movies. Already, however, James Bond had switched his martini for Heineken. And far from being subtle about this, the new beverage has been boasting about its (paid-for) part in Casino Royale with an extra advert in cinemas.
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/ 20 December 2006
The Botswana pilot who was killed when his light aircraft crashed into a block of flats in Yeoville was training to be a commercial pilot, said a flight instructor on Tuesday. Anastasios Vouros, who runs a flight school at the Rand Airport and owned the wrecked Piper Cherokee 140, said the pilot was qualified to fly the plane.
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/ 20 December 2006
The Bush administration is weighing options for a naval build-up in the Gulf as a show of force and a warning to Iran on its nuclear programme and its support for Shia militias in Iraq, it emerged on Tuesday. Under the proposed build-up, first reported by CBS television, the Pentagon would send an aircraft carrier to join one already in the region.
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/ 20 December 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik underwent explorative surgery in a Durban hospital on Monday. Shaik’s brother Mo Shaik said Schabir had undergone an angiogram at St Augustine’s hospital. Mo Shaik said the procedure was performed after his brother’s physicians had become concerned at ”swelling in the heart”.
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/ 20 December 2006
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, on Tuesday night accused the United States of trying to bring down the elected Hamas government and called for calm after at least four people were killed in a day of heavy fighting between rival factions in Gaza.
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/ 20 December 2006
Human rights groups have praised Pakistan for overhauling its Islamic sex laws, but for women like Quratulain Sattar, it is still an uphill battle against trumped-up charges under the harsh legislation. The 25-year-old medical trainee’s father lodged adultery charges against Quratulain and her husband, Faraz Shah, after failing to force her to marry the man of his choice.
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/ 20 December 2006
There are two ways of writing the story of Elizabeth Bolden. The first is to say that she had a very long life. She died in December, aged 116, passing on the mantle of the world’s oldest person to a man from Puerto Rico. Seen this way, you marvel at the endurance of a woman who was born in the year that Wyoming became the 44th state of the union.