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/ 23 August 2005

Arjen Robben faces the Mourinho axe

Arjen Robben is set to become the latest high-profile Chelsea player to be dropped by Jose Mourinho when the Premiership champions take on West Brom at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday. But unlike Ricardo Carvalho, Robben is not being demoted for speaking out against Chelsea’s squad-rotation policy.

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/ 23 August 2005

McCarthy targets low end of car market

McCarthy Motor Holdings, part of listed diversified industrial group Bidvest, has introduced a new concept in car sales targeting the low end of the car market — McCarthy Student Wheels, selling used automobiles at prices of R55 000 or less. It provides reliable cars to students or first-time car buyers with limited budgets.

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/ 23 August 2005

Bigger, better, badminton

The International Badminton Federation said it needs to transform its image from one of a backyard barbecue activity to a sport of global interest like Formula One. ”Our target is to promote the game to the audience,” IBF deputy president Punch Gunalan said. ”We must show countries like the United States that badminton is exciting and not just a garden game.

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/ 23 August 2005

Pollock and Smith to put Australia under pressure

South Africans Graeme Smith and Shaun Pollock will lead the World Test and one-day teams in the Super Series in Australia in October, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced in Melbourne on Tuesday. Smith will lead the ICC World XI in the six-day Test against the Australians, while Pollock will skipper the international team for three one-dayers against Australia.

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/ 23 August 2005

More injuries hit the Wallabies

The Wallabies were on Tuesday hit by more injury concerns ahead of their final Tri-Nations rugby international against New Zealand in Auckland on September 3. The Australians, who are without a win in the Tri-Nations after two defeats to South Africa and another to New Zealand, have delayed naming their squad until Wednesday to await a series of medical reports.

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/ 23 August 2005

‘We never fought to make a few black people wealthy’

South Africa’s transition to democracy over the past decade has proved a disaster for the country’s poor, Congress of South African Trade Unions Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich said on Monday. Speaking in Cape Town’s City Hall at the launch of a grassroots coalition to tackle poverty in the province, he harshly criticised the government’s failure to stem job losses.