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/ 17 November 2005
Listed retailer Mr Price has reported a 52% rise in diluted headline earnings per share for the six months to end-September 2005 to 46,5 cents from 30,6 cents a year earlier. The company declared an interim distribution of 24,3 cents per share, up from 13,2 cents at the halfway point in 2004, reducing its distribution cover to two times earnings from 2,4 times in the year-earlier period.
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/ 17 November 2005
International rugby officials have a choice between traditional strongholds and a new Asian frontier when they select the host country on Thursday for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. South Africa, New Zealand and Japan are the candidates to stage the sport’s seventh world championship.
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/ 17 November 2005
Russian Nikolay Davydenko hopes to take advantage of a depleted field after making it to the semifinals of the season-ending Masters Cup. Davydenko will be the highest-ranked player in the semifinals behind two-time defending champion Roger Federer.
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/ 17 November 2005
Flyhalf Meyer Bosman will make his South Africa rugby debut in a new halves pairing with Free State teammate Michael Claassens against Wales on Saturday at the Millennium Stadium. The 20-year-old Bosman replaces Andre Pretorius, who injured his ankle during the 34-23 win in Argentina on November 5.
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/ 17 November 2005
A British woman is thought to have become the oldest person in the country to get baptised, after a 101-year wait to be blessed at the baptismal font. Ivy Smith, from Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, southern England, had always thought she was too old to undergo the blessing.
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/ 17 November 2005
Kaizer Chiefs suffered another blow at Rustenburg’s Olympia Stadium when they lost 4-2 to Silver Stars in a Premier Soccer League encounter on Wednesday night. In other matches, Orlando Pirates drew 1-1 against Dynamos, Santos beat Tembisa Classic 2-0 and Mamelodi Sundowns drew 2-2 against Supersport United.
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/ 17 November 2005
Spain and the Czech Republic advanced to the World Cup finals on Wednesday, while Switzerland, Australia, and Trinidad and Tobago also made it to next year’s tournament. Already leading 5-1 from the home leg in Madrid, Spain tied 1-1 at Slovakia to advance 6-2 on aggregate.
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/ 17 November 2005
The reversal of a witchdoctor’s curse has been credited with the Australian national football team’s first qualification for the World Cup in 32 years. Australian television presenter John Safran, who hosts an irreverent religious-affairs show, said he learned of the curse in the late Australian captain Johnny Warren’s autobiography.
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/ 17 November 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed on Thursday to donors to give generously for victims of the October 8 earthquake, as Kashmiri civilians were poised to cross the disputed territory’s frontier. "What happened here … was something that the world could not have imagined," Annan said after arriving in Pakistan.
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/ 17 November 2005
”We have cried long enough,” says Hilde Wiese, a commercial farmer from Namibia, her eyes red. ”Now we’re actually pleased that it’s all over.” This week, a chapter of colonial history closed as the Wieses prepared to vacate their farm, the first white-owned farm to be expropriated under Namibia’s fast-tracked land-reform programme.