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/ 23 November 2005
North Korea’s demand that it be given light-water nuclear reactors before it would open up to atomic inspections and disarmament got a sharp rebuff as the partners in an energy consortium agreed with United States policy and terminated the reactor-building project.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Moving South Africa strategy warned as far back as 1999 that South Africa’s metropolitan cities needed to be proactive over managing car use "especially for the stubborn segment of the population", says South African Transport Minister Jeff Radebe.
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/ 23 November 2005
With the indifferent recent form of favourites Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs providing them with the impetus to swoop into the forefront of the Premier Soccer League title race, Moroka Swallows are in no mood to falter against Classic at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Spar South African women’s hockey team delivered a far more assured performance in the second Test against Canada at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday night to register a convincing 2-0 win. The result puts the hosts 2-0 up in the four-Test series.
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/ 23 November 2005
The venue for the first Test in the three-Test Spar Netball Challenge series on Wednesday has been changed from the Standard Bank Arena to the Walter Sisulu Hall at the Randburg Recreation Centre. Red tape has thrown arrangements for first Test between South Africa and England into chaos.
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/ 23 November 2005
Venetian gondolas, horses and even a Ferrari will help transport the torch across Italy for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. The Olympic flame begins a 64-day, 11 300km relay through every Italian province on December 8, sailing Venice’s Grand Canal on gondolas and parading in a sports car through the Ferrari factory.
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/ 23 November 2005
Ted Dumitru might be one of the few soccer voices not proclaiming in a loud and clear manner his imminent elevation as Bafana Bafana coach for the coming African Nations Cup tournament in Egypt — but the canny Romanian is predicting a major shake-up in the national team’s ranks nevertheless.
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/ 23 November 2005
The redesigned Honda Civic was named Motor Trend magazine’s 2006 car of the year on Tuesday, one of the most prestigious awards in the United States auto industry. ”Honda deserves a standing ovation for not playing it safe again,” Motor Trend editor-in-chief Angus MacKenzie said in a statement.
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/ 23 November 2005
Hollywood negotiated an agreement on Tuesday with the creator of BitTorrent software, popular for downloading pirated movies over the internet, in a deal aimed at reducing illegal traffic in online films. The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his website, www.bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies.
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/ 23 November 2005
South Africa received a boost ahead of this weekend’s one-off Test with France as veteran fullback Percy Montgomery was freed to play after a hearing with the sport’s governing body, the International Rugby Board, in London on Tuesday. Montgomery was sent off in the Springboks’ victory over Wales last Saturday.