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/ 23 November 2006
An infrared camera reportedly designed to track fighter jets has become the latest hi-tech gadget used to cover the Ashes series between Australia and England. Host broadcaster Channel Nine said the device, known as the ”hot spot”, could show whether a batman was out or not with 100% accuracy.
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/ 23 November 2006
Heavy flooding in Somalia killed at least seven people overnight, bringing the death toll to 80 from three weeks of torrential rains, witnesses and aid workers said on Thursday. Of the casualties, four were mauled by crocodiles lurking in floodwater in Somalia’s Hiraan region, where the River Shabelle broke its banks and swept through villages, they said.
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/ 23 November 2006
Germany’s seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has, for the first time, ruled out a return to Formula One, saying the sport is so fast-moving that it is impossible to jump back suddenly into the cockpit. ”Once you are out, you are out for good,” Schumacher said in an interview.
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/ 23 November 2006
Moroka Swallows, the last of Soweto’s ”Big Three”, crashed out of the Telkom Knockout at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night and continued a miserable sequence of results that has left the Dube club shorn of self-belief and in crisis. The Birds went down 2-1 to a youthful and willing but distinctly vulnerable Ajax Cape Town.
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/ 23 November 2006
Tiger Woods fired a six-under-par 66 in Hawaii on Wednesday to surge past Jim Furyk and defend his title in the -million Grand Slam of Golf. Woods, the world’s number-one player, captured his seventh title in eight appearances in this unofficial post-season event.
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/ 23 November 2006
English Premiership champions Chelsea qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League on Wednesday despite losing 1-0 to Werder Bremen. Barcelona beat Levski Sofia 2-0 but the reigning champions must beat Werder in the final group-A match if they are not to suffer a humiliating exit.
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/ 23 November 2006
Women’s magazine Femina has been sold to Media24, Associated Magazines said in a statement on Wednesday. Jane Raphaely, chairperson of Associated Magazines, said the sale will enable the company to diversify in areas outside the women’s magazine sector.
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/ 23 November 2006
The noose on companies violating employment-equity laws is to be tightened, the Labour Department said on Thursday. It quoted Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana as saying earlier this week: ”The issue of employment-equity violation is going to be my project next year.”
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/ 23 November 2006
A Mpumalanga man thought to be the Mozambican national who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison has turned out to be someone else, police said on Thursday. ”It is not the Annanias Mathe we are searching for,” national police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said.
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/ 23 November 2006
Driver’s and learner’s licence applications will go national from January next year, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has divulged in response to a parliamentary question. Answering the Democratic Alliance’s Manie van Dyk, the minister noted that his department does not currently administer the booking process.