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Vijay Singh went 15 holes without a birdie at the Tour Championship. He missed half his fairways and a half-dozen putts inside 12 feet. And when he walked off the 18th green on Thursday, he was right where everyone expected him to be. Singh scratched out a one-under 69, leaving him two shots out of the lead as he tries to become the first player in 54 years to win at least 10 times on the PGA Tour.
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/ 5 November 2004
Swing bowler Charl Langeveldt was forced on Friday to withdraw from the South African cricket team to tour India because of a back injury. Langeveldt was called up on Wednesday to replace vice-captain and leading spin-bowler Nicky Boje, who pulled out of the tour on legal advice.
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/ 4 November 2004
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has threatened festive-season prison disruptions unless 127 dismissed correctional officials are reinstated. ”We will be mobilising our members to fight these unlawful dismissals,” Popcru secretary general Abbey Witbooi said on Thursday.
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/ 4 November 2004
As Yasser Arafat lay brain dead in a Paris hospital on Thursday, Palestinians in the town that he left less than a week ago for life-saving treatment were already preparing to mourn their veteran leader. Flags were flying half-mast over Arafat’s headquarters compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in tribute to the United Arab Emirates’ founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, who died earlier this week.
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/ 4 November 2004
The minister of home affairs made an impassioned plea on Thursday for foreigners to apply for the necessary permits to be in the country legally. In a personal statement to the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on xenophobia, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said: ”There are many different permits they can apply for in South Africa.”
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/ 4 November 2004
At these Winter Games, there are no strenuous slaloms or figure-eights. But if you can’t shimmy up a chimney or wrap a Christmas gift, forget about competing. The annual Santa Winter Olympics kick off this month with about 50 Santas from across Europe testing their holiday mettle in Sweden’s cold, northern reaches.
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/ 4 November 2004
Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata on Thursday announced the permanent closure of Xstrata Alloys’ Vantech vanadium operation in South Africa, resulting in a write-down of R63,2-million. ”The decision to close Vantech follows a thorough assessment of the operation’s future prospects,” Xstrata said in a statement.
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/ 4 November 2004
State media said on Thursday that 40 Zimbabwean employees of the British embassy are engaged in a work slowdown to protest pay conditions and alleged racism. Embassy spokesperson Gillian Dare denied the report carried by state radio and the government news agency. ”We strongly deny any charge of racism,” she said.
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/ 4 November 2004
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s condition is ”extremely grave” and he will probably not recover from his illness, a French doctor said on Thursday. The 75-year-old Arafat ”is still in a coma”, said the doctor. However, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei told reporters Arafat is not in a coma.
Arafat in intensive care