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SOUTH AFRICA Summer News, Jan 14, 2012

Joburg Open: Finch, Grace on top but weather plays havoc again
Gant Daily
Johannesburg, South Africa (AHN Sports) – The Joburg Open has seemingly become one big weather delay. South African summer storms have once again dominated the day on Saturday and finally, third round action was suspended at the Royal Johannesburg and ...
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3 weeks after Xmas, holiday is not yet over in Mzansi
The Star
You see, Christmas time in South Africa falls at the height of the summerseason and the people seem to take the holiday very seriously and are intent on truly relaxing. Frankly, I was stunned into silence when at the NGO I work at, I heard we were ...
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Budd gets trophy 28 years late
SPORT24
British Tory MP John Carlisle was the keynote speaker and South Africanmusician Nick Taylor wrote and sang a song in her honour. The shy 17-year-old barefoot runner from Bloemfontein thanked the Press Club in one sentence in Afrikaans. ...
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Marketing the Black Pearl
Conway Daily Sun
Her mother, Dr. Mary Nash, comes over from Fryeburg every March to help watch over the girls while Mary-Lou oversees the busiest time of the harvest at the end of the South African summer. “I am trying to talk my mom into doing charity [medical] work ...
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Jesse Ryder's return to Black Caps on hold
Stuff.co.nz
"The intention is to work really hard on that over the next five weeks and hopefully be ready in time for the South African tour." The first Twenty20 against South Africa is scheduled for February 17. Ryder admits his place in the New Zealand team is ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Cricket: Petersen no-show let Glamorgan down says coach Mott
WalesOnline
Petersen captained the county last season and the Dragons thought they had reached an agreement with the South African opener to come back thissummer. With Australian batsman Marcus North installed as the overseas player and Mark Wallace taking over ...
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B'lore kids are enthu about football: Coach
Times of India
... worked in South Africa, the Middle East, Japan and China in such projects. Work on infrastructure is likely to start in the next few weeks, and is scheduled to be completed in about 20 months. The artificial turf should be ready late in the summer. ...
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England's famous brand of 'hard-men' have given way to gym-conditioned athletes
Telegraph.co.uk
On Wednesday Stuart Lancaster revealed the forwards who will do battle on England's behalf in the forthcoming Six Nations and on the tour to South Africa in the summer. With the greatest respect to that bunch, when compared to the likes of Dooley, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Ward: Colm Tucker was a giant and a gentleman whom I was proud to call my ...
Irish Independent
It did, however, pave the way for his greatest representative honour when he was named as part of the Lions squad to tour South Africa in the summer of that year. He played in the back-row in the last two Tests at Port Elizabeth and Pretoria alongside ...
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Reconcile and support the youth!
Oman Daily Observer
Nelson Mandela of South Africa and The TRC — Truth and Reconciliation Commission — From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopaedia: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the ...
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Oman Daily Observer
David Warner: A true cricketing metamorphosis
The Express Tribune (blog)
PHOTO: REUTERS David Warner's scintillating debut againstSouth Africa in a T20 fixture, where he scored 89 off 43 balls, told cricketing fans that maybe they were not going to miss the mighty Mathew Hayden that much after all. ...
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The Express Tribune (blog)
Campaign crossing oceans to welcome the world to Yorkshire
Yorkshire Post
News of the award, which saw Yorkshire beat off competition from the likes of Brazil, India and South Africa, was a chance to raise a few glasses of champagne, but for those businesses Welcome to Yorkshire represents, from the bed and breakfasts to the ...
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Yorkshire Post
Landscapes that are low on maintenance
Monterey County Herald
The most readily available and ecologically appropriate plants in this category are those that are native to coastal California, but many more good choices are plants from other summer-dry climates: the Mediterranean basin, South Africa, ...
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Kim Hughes amazed at lack of respect for Clarke
Mid-Day
After the rebel tours to South Africa, you returned to Shield cricket for Western Australia and scored a century. At that stage, you were still 33. Didn't you try to make an international comeback? Absolutely not. My family was developing and my life ...
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Mid-Day
The real test for England is to stay at No1, and the challenge starts here
Telegraph.co.uk
But by the time we get there India will have gone through transition and will be playing a young team so I expect England to be No 1. GB I'm not sure about that. Playing South Africa in three Tests this summer will be tough as they have a top-class...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Endless Summer
Wall Street Journal
Before there was Trader Vic's, "South Pacific" and sunburned tourists sporting hibiscus prints anywhere the sun shines, there was simply Hawaii. In the 1920s and '30s, the Waikiki beach boys—a gang of handsome wave-riders that included surfing's ...
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Wall Street Journal
Voyage of a lifetime
Portsmouth News
Ten yachts set off from Southampton in July and are due back in the summer. The route has so far taken them to Brazil, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The event is divided into eight legs and 15 races and crew members can sign up for one or a ...
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Can Barritt solve central issue?
The Independent
"When I was playing Currie Cup rugby for my provincial side in South Africa, I spent quite a bit of time at No 10," he remarked. "I spent time at outside centre too. Do I have a kicking game? Yes, absolutely. At Saracens we have a definite pattern and ...
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Justin Vaughan's NZ Cricket legacy
Stuff.co.nz
"Within a month of starting, the first T20 World Cup was due to be played in South Africa and that was when whispers of this rebel ICL league started come through," Vaughan says. "Really, we had no concept about what a divisive and big issue that was ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Martin Luther King Jr.: April 26, 1967, Cleveland speech, annotated
Plain Dealer (blog)
And I want to assure you today that the idea whose time has come in our day and our generation is the idea of freedom and human dignity. Wherever people are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; ...
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Plain Dealer (blog)
The Indian Dockers?
The Age
Our wickets aren't radically different from South Africa's and while the ball isn't said to swing as it does in the English mist, there is enough movement for decent Pom bowlers to trouble Aussie batsmen - particularly our current lot. ...
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The Age
Brendan Venter: Saracens On Verge of Signing Ashton
Sportsvibe
24 year-old Ashton is out of contract in the summer and is keen for his future to be resolved ahead of the Six Nations championship, which starts on February 4. Venter told EWN Sport in South Africa: "He is a very talented individual which any team ...
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Tony Fernandes will fund window shopping at QPR
The National
Their chairman, Daniel Levy, expects QPR to return with an improved bid for the South Africa captain, who has been told to find new employment and is expected to command a fee of up to £5m. Chelsea have agreed a fee for their transfer-listed central ...
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The National
Surviving the dystopian future
Salon
“The only other time a book of mine was banned was in 1986, when the apartheid government in South Africa banned 'Strangers in Their Own Country,' a curriculum I'd written that included a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela,” said Bigelow, ...
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Oryx decides to sell assets in Sh600bn deal
The Citizen Daily
The sale of Oryx Tanzania follows the 2010 disposal of BP Tanzania Limited, one of the biggest oil companies, in the wake of a management decision to concentrate its efforts in strategic countries such as Angola, Mozambique,South Africa, Algeria, ...
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Gayle set for Somerset stint
IEWY News
Opening batsman Gayle is one of the most powerful hitters in the game and he has proved especially adept in cricket's shortest format, with his 117 againstSouth Africa in Johannesburg in 2007 the highest individual score in all Twenty20 internationals ...
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Bob Latham Elected to International Rugby Board Executive Committee
PR.com (press release)
The other members of the Committee hail from England, Ireland, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. “This is a tremendous honor, and I am very excited about working with other members of the Executive Committee and the IRB ...
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Fishing with John Curtis 14th Jan 2012
ABC Online (blog)
When compared with other Southern Hemisphere currents that flow along the west coast of Africa and South America it is radically different Both the Humboldt Current, off South America, and the Benguela, off the coast of WestAfrica flow south to north, ...
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Queen of seas sails into port
The West Australian
QM2 left Southampton last Tuesday at the start of her 108-day world cruise and is sailing to Australia via Portugal, Africa, South Africa and Mauritius. Those who miss seeing QM2 in Fremantle next month can admire her when she returns to WA on February ...
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The West Australian
Church notes
The Daily News of Newburyport
Proceeds raised will pay for the travel expenses for Market Street Baptist Church volunteers to continue their support visits to the Living Hope Community Church of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the Bethany Mission Church of Tongaat, South Africa. ...
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Who's afraid of “The Tempest”?
Salon
“The only other time a book of mine was banned was in 1986, when the apartheid government in South Africa banned 'Strangers in Their Own Country,' a curriculum I'd written that included a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela,” said Bigelow, ...
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Salon
NBA's big push as lifestyle brand
Philippine Star
We're bringing back Miami coach Erik Spoelstra to Manila for another NBA Fit program this summer and that's always an exciting event.” Singson said the Jr. NBA program will schedule clinics in Metro Manila schools this month and February before the ...
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Gluttony and the runs
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and South Africa recently played two dramatic Test matches that left the players and public wanting more, but the series was cut short so as not to interfere with the Champions League Twenty20, in which both boards have a financial stake. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Soccer Capsules: Suspended Jones join to US training camp
Brownsville Herald
"While an unfortunate situation, it provides me the opportunity to call him in and continue to get him integrated with our system as we prepare the team for qualifying this summer," Klinsmann said. "I have spoken with the coach at Schalke and Jermaine, ...
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Hemingway and son
Financial Times
She'd be in touch from Jinny's house at nine that evening, hertime. Despite what Gigi writes in his memoir, Pauline was very upset as she flew south. Jinny met her at the airport that Sunday afternoon. Pauline told her she wasn't feeling well, ...
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Financial Times
FSHS students to learn more about leadership
Fort Scott Tribune
HOBY programs, which teach high school students about social responsibility, making a difference and what it means to be a global citizen, take place in North America, South America, Asia and Africa, the release said. HOBY was founded in 1958 by ...
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Packages raise the bar
Sydney Morning Herald
Need to know Located on the west coast of Africa, the Banana Islands are a part of Sierra Leone. They lie south-west of the country's capital, Freetown, and are made up of two main islands, Dublin and Ricketts, which are linked by a causeway. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
No game playing in marketing
Agri-View
The increases in planted areas in South America, Africa and Australia can and probably will make up for lost bushels compared to last year due to bad weather. In other words, don't count on hot weather now to push prices into an extended rally. ...
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More insidious hybrids of Phytophthora discovered
Science Network Western Australia
Multivora has since been found in South Africa. Phytophthora hybrids are also being found in WA, though little is known about them beyond their likely parentage. Centre of Phytophthora Science and Management post doctoral fellow Treena Burgess says the ...
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