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/ 19 October 2005
Blue Bulls captain Anton Leonard will be fit to lead his team for the last time when they face off against the Free State Cheetahs in the Currie Cup final on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld. Leonard injured his shoulder as he scored a try in last week’s bruising semifinal against the Lions.
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/ 19 October 2005
A Zimbabwean archbishop said on Wednesday he fears 200 000 of his countrymen could die by early next year because of food shortages he blames on his government, and called for President Robert Mugabe’s ouster. Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube said: ”The amount of suffering is beyond imagination.”
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/ 19 October 2005
The Kebble family on Wednesday announced that the Brett Kebble Art Awards, which were planned for February next year, will not go ahead. "The late Brett Kebble created South Africa’s biggest, boldest and most inclusive art awards," said producer of the awards David Barritt.
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/ 19 October 2005
Northern Ireland unionists who fear change will learn, like white South Africans did, that they stand to gain rather than lose, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Mbeki was speaking to reporters after meeting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Pretoria. Adams said people in his country want what South Africans have.
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/ 19 October 2005
A ceasefire was declared in the Hlophe race war on Wednesday when Chief Justice Pius Langa said that none of the protagonists wants any further action to be taken. Langa made the announcement in a statement issued at the end of a three-day meeting of the Judicial Service Commission in Cape Town.
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/ 19 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma, which swelled into an ”extremely dangerous” category-five storm on Wednesday, threatening Mexico and the Caribbean, is the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.
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/ 19 October 2005
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is looking to raise tens of thousands of dollars for an Israeli technology college by offering himself as a lunch date for diners who are prepared to pick up the hefty bill. The Australian-born chairperson of News Corporation has posted an advert on the internet auction site eBay.
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/ 19 October 2005
She may not have a government to preside over yet, but incoming German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already been turned into a doll. Dressed in a version of the blue trouser suit and pink T-shirt she wore on the tense election night of September 18, the baby-faced miniature Merkel is on sale for €189 (R1 480).
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/ 19 October 2005
An idyllic wedding planned by two Brazilians on a Malaysian island ended in a violent brawl after a member of Malaysia’s royal family led a group of rowdy gate-crashers to the nuptials, police said on Tuesday. About 90 guests from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Japan and Singapore had gathered on Saturday for the wedding.
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/ 19 October 2005
The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity was adjourned on Wednesday to November 28. A defiant Saddam pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of crimes against humanity, refusing to recognise the court on the first day of a trial that could see him sentenced to death.