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/ 26 January 2005
World number one Lindsay Davenport shattered Alicia Molik’s dream of becoming the first home-grown Australian Open champion since 1978, winning an epic quarterfinal in three sets on Wednesday. Melbourne-based Molik refused to be downcast at the end of a campaign that has helped propel her into the top 10.
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/ 26 January 2005
Sixteen of the best horses currently racing in South Africa go to the post just after 5pm on Saturday afternoon to contest the R1,5-million J&B Met at Kenilworth in Cape Town. As always, this is no ordinary race — it is an event that brings the Cape capital to a standstill for many locals and overseas visitors.
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/ 26 January 2005
Andre Agassi has praised Roger Federer’s innate ability to make the court look smaller after his astonishing demolition of the four-times Australian Open winner on Tuesday. The world number one, bidding for his third straight grand slam triumph, crushed eighth-seeded Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in their quarterfinal match.
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/ 26 January 2005
The Gauteng health department has identified four hospitals with management problems and poor patient care. ”We are reluctant to name them. We don’t want to inform them through the press. We want to inform them in our own way,” department spokesperson Popo Maja said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
Iran will carry out an ”astonishing” retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the United States, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying on Wednesday. In recent days United States officials have hardened their tone against the Islamic republic, which US President George Bush has already lumped into an ”axis of evil”.
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/ 26 January 2005
Zimbabwe’s traditional stone sculptors, who once earned huge sums from Western tourists, museums and galleries, are now struggling to survive due to their country’s isolation. Many sculptors are now forced to sell their works at a fraction of the price in a country labouring under a slew of economic woes.
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/ 26 January 2005
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Wednesday fell to a fresh three-year of R50 a share on the JSE Securities Exchange. This was attributable to the fall in the price of group’s American Depository Receipt (ADR) in the United States due to the lower gold price, brokers said.
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/ 26 January 2005
The two-one win over South Africa in the five Test series was the most satisfying win he had experienced since taking over as captain of the England cricket team was how England captain Michael Vaughan described his team’s historic victory on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
The son of former president PW Botha, Piet, has denied saying he would leave South Africa as a result of the new Firearms Control Act. ”What I did say was that I would consider leaving South Africa if I am forced to give up my means to personal self-defence,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2005
Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by the Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon.