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/ 8 December 2006

Leon: Zuma good news for DA, bad for the country

The ascendancy of Jacob Zuma to the leadership of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) would be "to the massive political advantage" of the Democratic Alliance (DA), the party’s leader, Tony Leon, said on Friday. Writing in his weekly newsletter on the DA website, the DA leader said that Zuma as ANC leader "would not be in the national interest as we have explicitly stated on many occasions".

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/ 8 December 2006

Barca avoid Champions League scrapheap

Barcelona and AS Roma made their own entries into the history books of the Champions League on Tuesday, although it was the defending champions who penned the most interesting reading. Frank Rijkaard’s Spanish giants calmed the nerves of their anxious fans with a 2-0 victory over Werder Bremen at the Nou Camp which secured entry to the last 16.

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/ 8 December 2006

Current-account deficit continues to shrink

South Africa’s current-account deficit continued to shrink in the third quarter of 2006 from 5,7% of the gross domestic product in the second quarter to 5,2%, the South African Reserve Bank said in its quarterly bulletin released on Friday. In value terms, the balance shrank to R90,4-billion in the third quarter compared with R95,3-billion in the second quarter.

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/ 8 December 2006

Natural-born losers return to their roots

Reading through the heap of post-mortems performed on their cricket team by English journalists this week, the overwhelming impression was that the shock and palpitations being expressed were almost totally contrived. The analyses, though tending towards hyperbole, were fair and eloquent, and the outrage and frustrations well directed.

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/ 8 December 2006

Elvis is all shook up

Is there a man in football with more responsibilities than Stephen Pressley? The Hearts and Scotland stalwart is not only a centre-back and captain (though the latter is currently subject to debate), he is also his club’s shop steward, counsellor, leader of the players’ popular revolutionary front and whistle-blower in chief.