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/ 9 September 2004
In the Castle Premiership clash between Golden Arrows and Mamelodi Sundowns, it was the Durban club who went home with a point, knowing that they matched their more fancied opponents man for man. Chances were few and far between in what turned out to be a dull goalless draw.
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/ 9 September 2004
Oom Krisjan en die manne have been enthusiastically following the Olympics from their bar stools, but somehow managed to miss the events that caught the eye of some NBC commentators: Tennis: ”One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them … Oh my God, what have I just said?”
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/ 9 September 2004
Hendrik Buhrmann of South Africa shot a 4-under par 68 on Thursday to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Korean Open. World number three Ernie Els of South Africa finished three strokes behind the leader at the 6,342-metre Woo Jung Hills Country Club in Cheonan, south of Seoul.
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/ 9 September 2004
The omission of the world’s highest Test wicket taker Muttiah Muralitharan from the International Cricket Council awards made it a ”farce and a joke,” Sri Lanka’s former world cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga said Thursday. Sri Lanka’s star spinner Muralitharan was not given a place in the Test Team of the Year announced at the inaugural awards of the ICC, but the man who is trailing him,
Australia’s Shane Warne, was included.
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/ 9 September 2004
Manning Rangers shared points with Orlando Pirates when they drew 1-1 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. The home side led 1-0 at interval thanks to a goal by Edson Minga in the 30th minute.
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/ 8 September 2004
A controversy over lice that has had zoologists scratching their heads for almost 250 years has been resolved at last, a report in next Saturday’s New Scientist says. The squabble dates back to 1758, when Carl Linnaeus declared there was one species of human louse, which he boldly baptised Pediculus humanus.
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/ 8 September 2004
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon’s remarks about Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel during the 2004 election campaign did not constitute hate speech, the South African Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday. ”Mr Leon did not suggest in anyway that certain people or segments of the population be subjected to hatred.”
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/ 8 September 2004
Russia warned on Wednesday it could launch pre-emptive strikes on terror bases anywhere in the world and put a bounty on two top Chechen rebels after the broadcast of a chilling video of the school hostage siege. ”We will take steps to liquidate terror bases in any region” in the world, Russian Chief of Staff General Yury Baluyevsky said.
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/ 8 September 2004
Six people were killed and about 50 injured on Wednesday in an unexplained explosion in north-west Yemen near an area where there have been clashes between the army and followers of a rebel Muslim preacher, witnesses and medical sources said. The blast occurred in a market in Kataf, east of Saada province.