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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.
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/ 17 November 2005
The 49-year-old owner of a tiny corner shop in a rundown part of Mexico City has done what few of her compatriots thought possible: taken on Coca-Cola and won. ”Everybody got scared and told me I was crazy and I’d be ruined,” Raquel Chavez recalled. ”I said I’d rather die with my dignity intact than be trampled on.”
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/ 17 November 2005
France’s Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, his popularity soaring, on Wednesday night threw down the gauntlet to President Jacques Chirac, saying some form of affirmative action is essential to overcome the problems of the country’s ethnic minorities.
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/ 17 November 2005
Johannesburg- and London- listed specialist banking group Investec plc on Thursday reported a 43,1% leap in headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of September from 58,3 pence to 83,4 pence. The group declared an interim dividend per share of 38 pence.