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/ 11 December 2006
Cinderella club Silver Stars, who have reached next weekend’s Telkom Knockout final against Ajax Cape Town, vaulted back to the top of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) log on Sunday following a goalless draw against Bloemfontein Celtic. Other winners on Sunday were Benoni Premier United, Moroka Swallows, Black Leopards and Lamontville Golden Arrows.
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/ 11 December 2006
Chelsea dropped two points at home on Sunday, needing an 84th-minute equaliser from Michael Essien to earn a 1-1 draw with Arsenal in the Premier League. The draw gives Manchester United an eight-point lead at the top of the standings, but with one more game played than Chelsea.
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/ 11 December 2006
A member of the South African netball team, Yvonne Phiri, died in a car crash near Hartebeesfontein on Saturday night. Phiri (21) was returning home from the national team’s training camp at the High-Performance Centre at the University of Pretoria. She had been included in the team to tour the United Kingdom in January.
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/ 11 December 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it is angered by President Thabo Mbeki’s use of the race card against the labour federation. Cosatu said in a statement on Sunday that Mbeki had written about it and the South African Communist Party in his weekly newsletter on ANC Today.
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/ 11 December 2006
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down at the expiry of his term in 2008 but will rule for an additional two years after three more provincial committees of his ruling Zanu-PF party resolved at the weekend to extend his term to 2010. Mugabe has not publicly commented on the moves by his party to extend his rule.
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/ 11 December 2006
International tour operators are threatening to ”pull the plug” on Durban following the gang-rape of a French tourist, the Sunday Tribune newspaper reported. The 26-year-old French national had decided to go for a walk with the Belgian swimming team’s coach on Tuesday night when they were attacked.
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/ 11 December 2006
Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani, a key ally of the United States, on Sunday delivered a thunderous rejection of the bipartisan US Iraq Study Group that was launched last week amid much fanfare in the US, describing its findings as ”dangerous” and saying that its recommendations were ”dead in the water”.
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/ 11 December 2006
More than 13 000 people die every year on South African roads, costing the economy R43-billion, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Sunday. He said economic growth contributes to the increase of accidents as the number of vehicles on the road is increasing.
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/ 11 December 2006
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Friday evening that while CPIX inflation is expected to hit the upper end of the 3% to 6% target band by the first quarter of next year, it should peak around April and then begin to come down. "We should only begin to see a breaching of the upper end in April," he said.
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/ 11 December 2006
Following a small game path, our guide, Mark McGill, suddenly spots a lion and calls us over. As it stalks its prey, we sit enthralled, not envying the unfortunate prey. We are on foot and as close to the kill as humanly possible. Time freezes as the prey falls into the clutches of the lion.