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/ 6 September 2004
Sanzar said on Monday it wants the Super 12 rugby union competition expanded to 14 teams and an extra round of Tri-Nations Tests under a new broadcast deal being negotiated with media giant News Corporation. A Sanzar statement released by the Australian Rugby Union said South Africa and Australia would each have an extra team in an expanded Super 14 competition.
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/ 6 September 2004
Serena Williams left her opponent swinging at shadows, then Andy Roddick finished off his work with a 217kph fastball. Roddick and Williams easily aced their latest tests in the US Open on Sunday, serving notice that they are just warming up. Roddick overpowered Guillermo Canas 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.
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/ 6 September 2004
India saw off a Michael Vaughan-inspired recovery to beat England by 23 runs in the third one-day international at Lord’s in London on Sunday. But England still took the three-match series 2-1, a warm-up for the ICC Champions Trophy that starts on Friday, after seven-wicket and 70-run wins at Trent Bridge and The Oval respectively.
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/ 6 September 2004
Italian Valentino Rossi, known as ”Il Dottore”, won the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday, racing the 28 laps of the 4,182km circuit in 46 minutes and 34,911 seconds into his fourth consecutive victory. Japan’s Makoto Tamada, who took the pole position, finished second with 46:40,022.
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/ 6 September 2004
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter will be calling up Manchester United star Quinton Fortune and Danish-based winger Sibusiso Zuma for next month’s vital group two World Cup qualifier against Uganda in Kampala. Bafana were beaten 1-0 by the Democratic Republic of Congo in Sunday’s World Cup qualifier.
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/ 6 September 2004
My gut instinct tells me that I should not really be bothered to respond to Ronald Suresh Roberts’s garbled response to my comments on his low-intensity war with Nadine Gordimer, who recently withdrew her “authorisation” for his long-awaited biography of herself. But since he now appears to have further set himself up as the sole authorised spokesperson of the so-called “African diaspora” (whatever that is) as well, I suppose I should make the effort.
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/ 6 September 2004
Former anti-apartheid cleric Dr Beyers Naude was in a critical condition in the frail care unit at a retirement village in Johannesburg on Monday. ”My father is very ill due to his age. We don’t know what to expect,” Naude’s eldest son Johann said on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2004
The possibility of a public sector strike loomed on Monday as both the government and trade unions refused to move on pay negotiations. With weeks to go before the matric exams, teachers and other public sector employees including police and nurses, threatened to go on strike if their salary demands were not met by Thursday.
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/ 6 September 2004
Capetonians Graeme Solomon and Dawid Mocke triumphed over a desperately low river to win the Men’s Health/New Balance Breede River canoe marathon on Sunday. Solomon and Mocke finished the tough river marathon out of sight of runners-up Shaun Rubenstein and Michael Mbanjwa.
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