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/ 27 November 2006
Moroka Swallows and Bloemfontein Celtic played to a goalless draw in a Premier Soccer League match at the Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday. In other matches, Silver Stars and Ajax Cape Town played to a goalless draw and Benoni Premier United beat Amazulu 2 -1.
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/ 27 November 2006
A1 Grand Prix Team Switzerland’s Neel Jani won his and Switzerland’s first race of the new season from pole position on Sunday. Adrian Zaugg, at the wheel of A1 Team South Africa’s Vulindlela, finished 13th — 24,68 seconds behind Jani. The South African had qualified in eighth place on Saturday, only to be relegated to 11th.
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/ 27 November 2006
Diminutive Venezuelan international Jose Torrealba came on for Mamelodi Sundowns as a second-half substitute and scored the 54th-minute winning goal in their 2-1 victory over Maritzburg United at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Torrealba replaced a sluggish, rusty Peter Ndlovu.
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/ 27 November 2006
In a country where HIV/Aids kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new. But at one hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal province, what could be a new public health nightmare is taking its toll as doctors and nurses grapple with a new, highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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/ 27 November 2006
Ireland brought the curtain down on Lansdowne Road by thumping the Pacific Islanders 61-17 on Sunday. Flyhalf Paddy Wallace, making his first start, scored 26 points, and flanker Simon Easterby scored two of Ireland’s eight tries in the last match at Europe’s oldest rugby stadium before it is redeveloped.
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/ 27 November 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik has been admitted to hospital, Correctional Services Department officials said on Monday. The offcials refused to divulge his condition but confirmed that he was in hospital. ”We can only acknowledge that he’s been taken to hospital,” said deputy commissioner of communications Manelisi Wolela.
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/ 27 November 2006
England’s players hope to erase memories of the demoralising defeat to Australia by getting it right for Friday’s second Adelaide Test, captain Andrew Flintoff said. Flintoff welcomed the back-to-back scheduling of the first two Tests because it meant his players could not dwell on their 277-run caning in the first Ashes Test.
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/ 27 November 2006
If there’s one common denominator about being South African and owning cars, it is that at some point in their lives most South African drivers have owned a Toyota. It might have been because Toyotas have a reputation for reliability or it might have been the attraction of buying a car that doesn’t depreciate as much as others do over time.
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/ 27 November 2006
Britain’s strained relations with Russia worsened on Sunday when a Cabinet minister questioned whether Vladimir Putin’s government may have been connected with the death of Alexander Litvinenko. The Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain, also said British relations with Russia were at a very tricky stage.
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/ 27 November 2006
A surprise ceasefire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and the Israeli military appeared to hold for its opening day on Sunday, raising the first hopes for months of a return to peace negotiations. The dawn truce got off to a shaky start as some militants fired several of their crude rockets into southern Israel in the early morning.