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/ 13 November 2006
The real champion? Not yet. But close. Wladimir Klitschko’s seventh-round knockout of Calvin Brock on Saturday made for an impressive first defence of the IBF title he took from Chris Byrd in April. Now Klitschko has his sights on the other three heavyweight champions: Shannon Briggs, Nicolay Valuev and Oleg Maskaev.
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/ 13 November 2006
Five years ago today the Taliban vanished from Kabul and a liberated city exploded with joy. As the turbaned Islamists scurried, whooping residents rushed on to the streets. Men queued to have their beards shaved, some women removed their burkas and Radio Kabul played music for the first time in years.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Zimbabwe government has directed the country’s largest journalism training school to accept only students who have completed a controversial national youth-service training programme — blamed by critics for brainwashing youths into zealots of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.
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/ 13 November 2006
If Orlando Pirates claim their 2-1 defeat to Benoni Premier United at a rain-swept Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon came from a succession of freakish elements, there is no doubt it was inspired by what can already be called the PSL goal of the season.
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/ 13 November 2006
Carlo Scott scored a brace to place Bloemfontein Celtic in fourth place in the Castle Premiership log table when they beat Amazulu 3-1 at the Princess Magogo Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The first goal was scored by Amazulu in the second minute by Benedict Chenene.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for the resignation of the five Supreme Court of Appeal judges who turned down Schabir Shaik’s appeal. Cosatu said the five misrepresented the findings of the trial judge and damaged African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 13 November 2006
Robbers posing as security guards attacked Coin Security staff and took R50-million, the Sowetan newspaper reported on Monday. The gangsters ambushed a cash-in-transit van on its way back to the Coin Security depot with money on Saturday, disarmed the two guards and took their uniforms.
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/ 13 November 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Sunday called for African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma to be reinstated as the country’s
deputy president. This followed a media report in which Judge Hilary Squires denied he found a ”generally corrupt relationship” between Zuma and businessman Schabir Shaik.
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/ 13 November 2006
Arsenal jumped to third in the English Premier League and extended Liverpool’s poor away form with a 3-0 win on Sunday. Mathieu Flamini, Kolo Toure and William Gallas scored to help Arsenal rise three places. Liverpool’s title hopes faded further with the defeat. This was its fifth league loss — and all have been away from its Anfield home.
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/ 13 November 2006
France were branded ”impotent” after crashing to the second heaviest defeat in their history against New Zealand, and coach Bernard Laporte admitted it was back to the drawing board in a bid to salvage some face in the rematch in Paris on Saturday.