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/ 15 February 2005
South African shipping group Grindrod has invested nearly R2-billion in a major expansion of its shipping fleet in recent weeks. The company bought a geared container ship of 605 twenty-foot equivalent units for $7-million and has ordered four new 12Â 800 deadweight ton (dwt) oil/chemical tankers.
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/ 15 February 2005
A Johannesburg high school will be searched for guns and drugs on Tuesday morning, metro police said. ”We have received numerous complaints from the principal [of Intereleng Secondary School in Diepsloot] that learners go to school with illegal firearms,” said metro police spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
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/ 15 February 2005
Scheduled elections will take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) come rain or come shine, the speaker of the national assembly promised on Monday at the start of a special session on a new Constitution. But Olivier Kamitatu warned against being too rigid about holding the poll before the end of June, as the opposition insists.
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/ 15 February 2005
After two years in the wilderness after a drugs test that went sour, talented Sharks flyhalf Herkie Kruger is back in the frame and the controlling body has once again got his signature on paper. A delighted Sharks coach Kevin Putt said: ”He is now available to play and this is hugely exciting for us.”
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/ 15 February 2005
France coach Bernard Laporte paid little heed to the 18-17 victory over England on Monday when he recalled three of last year’s Six Nations Grand Slam heroes for the crucial clash with Wales on February 26. He recalled number eight Imanol Harinordoquy, winger Aurelien Rougerie and centre Yannick Jauzion, France’s player of the year.
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/ 15 February 2005
Clay-court kings Juan Carlos Ferrero and Guillermo Coria broadened their tennis horizons with convincing opening-round victories indoors at the €782 250 Rotterdam Cup on Monday. Ferrero and Coria have both abandoned the inviting red-dirt events of South America this month to polish their indoor fitness in Europe.
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/ 15 February 2005
As inspectors from the International Olympic Committee arrive in London to examine the city’s bid to host the 2012 Games, those behind the British capital’s attempt to stage the world’s most famous sports festival believe they are starting to close the gap on long-time favourites Paris.
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/ 15 February 2005
The Galle Cricket Stadium was one of the most breathtaking Test venues, but the December 26 tsunami has exposed its vulnerability and brought down the curtain on Sri Lanka’s ”lucky” ground. Cricket officials are looking for an alternative venue to the stadium that the national team had considered lucky.
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/ 15 February 2005
Arsenal celebrated fielding their first-ever all-foreign squad by thrashing relegation-threatened Crystal Palace 5-1 in London on Monday. Thierry Henry scored twice to record a memorable 200th Premiership appearance for the Gunners. Palace’s leading scorer Andy Johnson scored a penalty for the visitors.
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/ 15 February 2005
Schabir Shaik’s brothers, Mo and Yunus, have asked former journalist Ranjeni Munusamy to sit in on his fraud and corruption trial with the possibility of becoming his media advisor, she told the South African Press Association on Monday. ”I have observer status with the defence team,” she said while leaving the Durban High Court.