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/ 25 November 2005
When Sir Francis Drake hove into view of the south-western appendix of our great land, hyperbole was inevitable. No doubt ankle-deep in Elizabethan upchuck, his britches starched by pig fat and a robust bout of dysentery, his bodkin cruelly ravaged by months of salty air and now nothing more than a rusty tool dangling between his thighs, he was primed for rhetorical excess.
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/ 25 November 2005
When Corne Krige realised that his body was trying to tell him enough was enough, there was only one course of action. ”I have never conned a club in my life, and I wasn’t about to start now. Moreover, I didn’t want people whispering among themselves that I wasn’t the player I’d once been,” says Krige in his new autobiography.
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/ 25 November 2005
Border cricket has been at the forefront of the United Cricket Board’s youth development programme since 1987 and is regarded as the best in the country. The programme provides schools and clubs with equipment every year in order to help them participate in their fixtures.
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/ 25 November 2005
This weekend’s fixtures, Orlando Pirates versus Sundowns and United against Kaizer Chiefs, give Pretorians another opportunity to stick it further to their more illustrious, but currently beleaguered, Johannesburg rivals. The slight snag is that the protagonists in this drama cannot in all honesty describe theirs as a tale of two cities.
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/ 25 November 2005
With the weather forecasters anticipating the coldest weekend in Edinburgh in a decade, Scotland must hope the All Blacks also freeze at Murrayfield on Saturday. A 3-0 series win over the British and Irish Lions in June and July and a Tri-Nations title had established Graham Henry’s squad as the pre-eminent force in world rugby long before they touched down in Cardiff at the end of last month.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa captain Graeme Smith expressed confidence on Thursday that his team can make a fresh start after its unbeaten streak was broken during the ongoing series against India. South Africa finished one short of Australia’s world-record sequence of 21 games without a defeat last week when it lost by six wickets to India in the second one-dayer of the five-match series.
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/ 25 November 2005
"I’m sure it was someone far more learned who said "With great power comes great responsibility" — but, for now, my only recollection is of Spiderman’s uncle lecturing an impatient Spidey in the 2002 movie. Those words popped into my head the first time I put my foot flat on the accelerator of the new Chrysler Crossfire SRT6 Roadster," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 25 November 2005
For Ntando Bangani, Afro-pop’s seemingly top exponent, there is more to his music than immediately meets the ear. He speaks to Kwanele Sosibo ahead of the Metro FM awards.
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/ 25 November 2005
The newly-published <i>Desperately Seeking Paradise</i> traces writer Ziauddin Sardar’s journey from his youth as a Muslim student activist in the 1970s to his role in various Muslim think-tanks. Rustum Kozain reviews the book.
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/ 25 November 2005
Banking group Absa says it is well prepared to add impetus to the empowerment drive — one of South Africa’s delicate initiatives central to the successful transformation of our society and its economy. Absa is ready to take the country’s black economic empowerment (BEE) process to greater heights, the group says.