 SPL Clydesdale Bank Team of the Week
 04.10.2009 15:51  12 views  0 comments
 October 4, 2009 GOALKEEPER PAUL GALLACHER (St Mirren): There wasn't much to choose between the keepers in the SPL this weekend, but Gallacher was part of a team which created a little piece of history and was also assured in his handling, despite the storms which buffeted Scotland. He had cause to thank Hearts' Suso Santana for his profligacy, but Gallacher made a couple of excellent blocks and helped St Mirren climb to seventh in the SPL. SNS Shaun Maloney and David Weir DEFENCE IAN MURRAY (Hibernian): The Easter Road club have clearly benefited from Murray's return to prominence in recent weeks and he produced another uncompromising and committed show throughout his team's 1-1 draw with...
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Heartland thrash Kano Pillars
04.10.2009 14:49 18 views 0 comments
 Nigeria's Heartland set themselves well on course for the African Champions League final with a home 4-0 thrashing of their domestic rivals...
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Surfers break world record
04.10.2009 14:49 14 views 0 comments
 More than 100 surfers broke the Guiness World Record for the "Most surfers riding the same wave" in Cape Town on Sunday, Kahuna Promotions...
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Hromnik's report angers Hermanus residents
04.10.2009 14:49 82 views 0 comments
 By Melanie Gosling Environment Writer Controversial Cape Town historian Cyril Hromnik, known for his theories that African civilisation is based on Indian heritage, has compiled a report which says stone remains on...
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Court Finishes Vote Recount in Gabon
04.10.2009 13:47 19 views 0 comments
 Gabon's constitutional court has finished its recount of presidential ballots. The court says it expects to rule on the validity of the vote in the coming week. Constitutional court president Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo says the court has completed recounting every return from the more than 2,800 polling stations. She says the court will rule on the validity of that poll in the coming...
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More Nigerian Militants Give Up Arms Ahead of Amnesty Deadline
04.10.2009 13:47 15 views 0 comments
 Thousands of rebels in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta are surrendering their weapons and accepting a government amnesty, which expires Sunday. From the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Gilbert da Costa reports all key militant commanders have now embraced the amnesty. Policemen display weapons collected from Niger delta militants as part of a government amnesty program, in Yenagoa, Nigeria (File)Key rebel leaders in...
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Nigerian militant leader accepts amnesty offer
04.10.2009 11:43 16 views 0 comments
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Nigerian Militant Leader Accepts Amnesty Offer
04.10.2009 11:12 19 views 0 comments
 Nigerian Militant Leader In Rivers State Accepts Government Amnesty Offer, Surrenders Arms Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments (AP) A rebel leader in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta said he has accepted a government amnesty offer to disarm....
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Nigeria rebel disarms under amnesty
04.10.2009 10:10 17 views 0 comments
 Thousands of people in Nigeria's Delta state have gathered in the provincial capital to witness a local rebel leader accept a government amnesty. Government Tompolo arrived in the city of Warri on Sunday after pledging his support for Umaru Yar'Adua, the president, in return for an unconditional pardon. Tompolo was one of the leaders of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC), which was responsible for shutting down a large amount of oil output from the western delta in 2003. "We came because we want peace," Chief Andrew Anegba, a traditional Ijaw ethnic community leader, said as he waited for Tompolo at Warri airport. "The last militant groups are...
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Thrilling draw for Africa
04.10.2009 9:39 22 views 0 comments
 Ghana will take on South Africa in the last 16 of the Under-20 World Cup in an all-African clash which will capture the imagination across the continent. The Black Satellites have been one of the strongest teams in the tournament so far. But South Africa revived their fortunes against Honduras on Saturday and cannot be written off. Hosts Egypt will...
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Kofi Annan in Kenya to assess reform
04.10.2009 9:08 16 views 0 comments
 Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is due in Kenya to assess progress on much-needed reforms promised after the post-election violence in early 2008. Mr Annan was instrumental in brokering a power-sharing deal which pacified the country after inter-ethnic violence had killed more than 1,000 people. He will spend several days meeting top politicians, diplomats, members of civil society and...
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Senior rebels disarm in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta
04.10.2009 9:08 20 views 0 comments
From Christian Purfoy CNN LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Two senior rebel leaders in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region accepted a government offer of amnesty to militants who disarm. Farah Dagogo and Akete Tom, both field commanders for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), laid down their weapons Saturday, said Timiebi Agary, spokeswoman of the amnesty...
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Argument between friends turns fatal
04.10.2009 9:08 15 views 0 comments
 A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death by his friend in...
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Ndebele: Roads will kill more people than HIV
04.10.2009 9:08 14 views 0 comments
 South Africa's roads could claim more lives than HIV and Aids and malaria combined by 2020, if accidents are not prevented, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Sunday. He was speaking at the funeral, in Queenstown, of six people who died in a taxi accident on the N6...
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Pope: Materialism, Extremism Harm Africa's Future
04.10.2009 8:37 14 views 0 comments
 Pope: Africa Is World's 'spiritual Lung,' But Harmed By Materialism, Religious Fundamentalism Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Photo (AP) (AP) Pope Benedict opened a special meeting of bishops on Africa on Sunday by praising the continent as the world's spiritual center but lamenting that it risks being afflicted by materialism and religious fundamentalism....
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Too Much Water And Not Enough to Drink
04.10.2009 8:05 22 views 0 comments
Mmankosana Letsoela has...
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Free or Charge Detainees, Says Rights Group
04.10.2009 8:05 17 views 0 comments
 Guinean authorities should immediately...
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Tears, sorrow at funerals of Swartberg hikers
04.10.2009 7:34 16 views 0 comments
By Zara Nicholson There were emotional funerals on Saturday for two of the women who died while hiking in the Swartberg Mountains last week, while the third woman is to be buried today. Hundreds of people attended the funerals of Charmaine Appels, 46, and Debbie Raubenheimer, 51, who were cremated on Saturday. Appels's funeral was held in Blue...
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Effects of crime on kids underestimated
04.10.2009 7:34 21 views 0 comments
 By Thabiso Thakali A new study on youth lifestyle has revealed that government statistics have significantly underestimated the level of crime experienced by most young people. Almost half of South Africa's young people have fallen victim to crime in the past 12 months, according to a study by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention released this week. The survey, entitled "Youth Lifestyle Study", reveals that of the 4 391 youths aged between 12 and 22 surveyed, 27 percent had fallen victim to crime or violence between February 2007 and February last year. Although this showed a decrease in youth victimisation rates compared to a similar study done in 2005, researchers have...
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Shack murder, rape shocks neighbours
04.10.2009 7:34 21 views 0 comments
By Vuvo Mabandla and Bianca Capazorio The naked body of a domestic worker was found on Sunday in a backyard shack in Harare, Khayelitsha, where it is believed she had been raped. Buyezwa Nyamani's body was discovered yesterday by the owner of the property when he went to check on his electricity box. In a separate incident earlier last week, another woman, also a domestic worker from Khayelitsha, was abducted, blindfolded and taken to a house in Malmesbury where she was repeatedly raped by her four attackers. In Harare, neighbours said they were called to the scene...
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