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/ 23 September 2004
Wits University wore their red badge of courage when they drew 0-0 against Jomo Cosmos in an uninspiring Castle Premiership fixture at Milpark’s Bidvest stadium on Wednesday night. But all credit went to the Students, who played with a man short for 70 minutes. They fully deserved their point.
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/ 23 September 2004
Ajax travelled all the way from Cape Town hoping for a victory or draw against Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park Stadium on Wednesday night. Instead, the Urban Warriors went home with their tails between their legs after suffering their worst defeat to date — 6-0 — against the business-like Buccaneers.
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/ 23 September 2004
Silver Stars and Black Leopards played to a one-all draw in their Limpopo Castle Premiership derby on Wednesday night. It was the third draw for both sides after they also played to a one-all draw in the first round at the same venue last season and battled to a three-all stalemate in the second round played at Thohoyandou.
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/ 23 September 2004
Five sports — golf, rugby, squash, karate and roller sports — are in the running for possible inclusion at the 2012 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it has notified the governing bodies of the five sports that they will be ”studied further” as part of a review of the Games’ competition schedule.
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/ 22 September 2004
The United States tobacco industry on Wednesday fired its first shots in a bid to undermine a government claim for -billion to punish firms it accuses of plotting to cover up the harm of smoking. Lawyers for the major industry firms said the companies no longer seek to hide the fact that cigarettes are ”a dangerous product”.
Tobacco giants deny fraud
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/ 22 September 2004
More than half the commercial farmers in the Eastern Cape will face bankruptcy if they are forced to pay a land tax set at 2% of market value, according to research released on Wednesday. That rate would lead to an 89% drop in profits for farmers in the province and have other equally serious knock-on effects.
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/ 22 September 2004
The United Nations expressed fears on Wednesday of ”famine conditions” arising in southern Somalia if violence there is allowed to escalate. ”The current fighting in the area is seriously disrupting the humanitarian operations currently under way,” the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard, said.
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/ 22 September 2004
About 15 000 people have fled towns and villages near Numbi, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after rebellious soldiers clashed there with army forces, a United Nations spokesperson said on Wednesday. An army spokesperson was unable to say where the fleeing people had sought refuge.
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/ 22 September 2004
Suicide attackers detonated a car bomb on Wednesday near an Iraqi national guard recruiting centre in west Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 54, authorities said. Another car bomb shook the capital’s upscale Mansour district in the afternoon, police and witnesses said. Six people were wounded there, the military said.