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/ 5 November 2005
South Africa is desperate not to lose to the best Argentina line-up in a year, in their one-off rugby Test at Velez Sarsfield Stadium on Saturday. Both teams have spent the build-up paying their respects to each other. Springbok coach Jake White noted Argentina was the only leading side in the world not competing in a major tournament such as the Tri-Nations and Six Nations.
Milan Lukic, one of the most wanted war criminals from the carnage in Bosnia, was due to appear before a judge in Buenos Aires on Tuesday after being captured on Monday. After seven years on the run from war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Lukic was seized outside his apartment in Argentina.
South Africa defeated Australia 24-20 to win the under-21 Rugby World Championship on Saturday, fending off a late challenge by the Australians. South Africa dominated most of the way but nearly threw its advantage away in the final minutes when Australia pressed near the tryline.
South Africa held off defending champion New Zealand 16-12 on Tuesday and will play Australia in the weekend final of the world under-21 rugby championship. Australia defeated France 28-16 in the other semifinal. South Africa controlled the ball early and Cedrik McKize broke through the centres to score a 19th-minute converted try.
The South African Under-21 team scored a runaway victory in their opening encounter against Italy at the International Rugby Board Under-21 World Championships in Argentina on Thursday. The South Africans romped to a 83-3 win at the Miresta Rugby Club, after leading 35-3 at half-time.
Argentina qualified for their ninth successive World Cup with a sweet 3-1 defeat of arch-rival Brazil on Wednesday. The Argentines joined Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and South Korea as the first nations to qualify for next year’s finals, along with host Germany, an automatic qualifier in the 32-nation field.
Argentine rocker Andres Calamaro was charged on Monday for saying he would like to smoke marijuana — more than 10 years ago. "I feel so good that I could smoke a joint," Calamaro told a crowd of 100 000 fans on November 19 1994 in La Plata, 50km south of Buenos Aires.
Despite their best performance in the four-Test series, the Spar South African women’s hockey team lost their fourth and last Test against Argentina on Sunday, going down by one goal to three to the team ranked second in the world. ”It was our best performance as a team,” said team coach Jenny King.
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/ 11 February 2005
Hundreds of rioting convicts in the city of Cordoba are holding a prison warden and 75 people hostage, threatening to throw some of them off the roof, while two inmates and a police officer were killed in a jail-break attempt, officials said early on Friday. Armed inmates atop the prison roof threatened to throw some prison guards to the pavement below.