South Africans Worldwide Newsletter

Let’s not talk any politics-yet our very lives are always being affected by it.
Just looking at this week’s items confirms this. Once again I’ve been striving to show
more positive news than negative news.

This week I’m looking forward to getting my spouse to join me in Harare, as all her domestic affairs have been satisfactorily concluded. It’s my hope that she’ll be as pleasantly surprised with the local people, as what I have been –so far.

Please Reader’s, let’s have some more contributions about your lives, hobbies & interests in different parts of the globe as well as in South Africa. Of course you’ll have to be prepared to have your brief description published in the weekly SAW Newsletter.
Your story might just benefit someone out there, so derive your inspiration from that.

‘Till next week.

Letters to the Editor TOP

Nothing to hand this week.

Quote/s of the Week TOP

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
-- Albanian Proverb

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it.
Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
-- Norah Jones, O Magazine, July 2003

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
-- Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-- George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
-- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

The only joy in the world is to begin.
-- Cesare Pavese

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
-- Lillian Hellman

Ad Hoc Article/s of the Week TOP

Commanding heights
Twelve years on, the commanding heights of the economy are finally being tackled in the service of the ordinary man and woman.

In electricity, the regulator has found Eskom negligence behind the power cuts that caused widespread disruption in the Western Cape; that its highly paid executives were essentially asleep at the switch.

• In fuels, the multinationals and synthetic fuel companies are subject to an inquiry into the myriad fiscal measures that pump up their profitability.
• In banking, a commission of inquiry will study the costly payments system we all use daily, yet which just four private banks own and control.
• The long-term and life assurance industries are about to unveil much needed changes to benefit the pensions of ordinary working people.
• In telecommunications, the government is setting up a new entity, which in part appears to be an attempt to tackle Telkom’s monopoly.
• The focus on poor business practice is long overdue -- and it is helping to rouse consumers from their slumber.
• In banking, consumers are increasingly aware of price;
• pension fund members, bolstered by the work of the Pension Funds Adjudicator, are demanding better service for high fees and an end to punitive premium reductions; and
• many hundreds of thousands of South Africans have cancelled their Telkom lines in favour of more convenient, and often cheaper, cellphones. This week, we report that the government itself is aiming to become a competitor to Telkom.
All the concerns now under scrutiny are huge enterprises, some private, but also either fully or partly state-owned.

Read more...

http://www.mg.co.za/

Credit cop to the rescue

Jocelyn Newmarch

Government didn’t need to look very far to appoint a new chief executive for the National Credit Regulator (NCR). As head of the former Microfinance Regulatory Council, now the NCR, Gabriel Davel has been regulating credit providers since 2000, and is a chartered accountant who chose to specialise in financial regulation and development finance. Davel now has the toughest job ahead of him: bringing the country’s credit industry to heel.

When Davel pokes his head round the door and suggests we go through to his office, my first thought is that he must be a history teacher. He has the same slightly distracted air, the jersey, the gentle face and grey curls. But any impression of vagueness disappears the moment the interview begins. Davel does intensity the way Einstein must have explained his formula for relativity, talking a million miles an hour in quiet, Afrikaans-accented English.

He has to talk fast: he has a lot to do and not too much time in which to do it. The regulator is newly set up and needs to ensure the industry will be ready for the new National Credit Act, which will bring major change. All credit providers should have registered with the regulator before June 1 and a consumer tribunal will be established next month.

Read more...

http://www.mg.co.za/

Coke Africa dumps UK for SA

18/08/2006 14:31

Johannesburg - In a clear signal of its commitment to growing its business in Africa, The Coca-Cola Company is relocating its Africa Group Office from Windsor, UK, to Johannesburg, South Africa, beginning January 2007, the company announced on Friday. The final move will be completed in June 2007.
More recently, "the Continent's improving infrastructure, particularly its airline network, mobile telecommunications, and modern business infrastructure, has turned it into an attractive investment destination", says Alex Cummings, President & Chief Operating Officer, Coca-Cola Africa.

Read more...

http://www.fin24.co.za

It's party time in Knysna

August 15 2006 at 11:34AM By Bucky Maguire

Knysna loves to party and this year's grand Oyster Festival saw an incredible 58 000 visitors. Ole!

People waist-high in fun, danced, played and ate their way to a glorious breakaway from city smog and stress.

The superb Knysna tourism gang is led by Craig Nancarrow and the driving ace, PRO Francesca Mantiatis, who often found time to drive us to novel venues. Rumour has it she once "dropped it in the pond" (not her fault), which in Knysna-speak means "put it in the lake". But she is a problem solver extraordinaire and a true, can fix, will fix, have fixed it, lady.
But if we thought the tourism team might deservedly be lying back on their laurels after the Oyster rave, we were wrong. They are already organising another bash, and this time it's the Gastronomical Festival in Knysna from September 24 to 27.

If Knysna is the crown of east coast tourism, then Sedgefield is Ali Baba's treasure chest. Most travellers driving through give it a miss, high-tailing it the 20km to Knysna. But, as the town has now been beefed up by the Knysna tourism magic, its vast chest of travel jewels have now been opened to tourism.

Sedgefield is a haven for nature lovers and organic food growers, and it has kilometres of peaceful beaches. Close by, we discovered the tranquil Lake District and the accessible estuaries that attract 250 species of musical bird life. The town's beautiful lake area begins in the west, where Swartvlei is the largest, and east is the beautiful Groenvlei fresh water lake.

The Lakes Festival from September 22 to 25 almost coincides with the Gastronomica Festival. The programme includes cycling, swimming and running races, as well as small boat yachting with more than 180 craft expected. Waterskiers, surfers, mountain bikers, canoeists, abseilers, wind-surfers and underwater divers can do their thing here too.

Read more...

http://www.int.iol.co.za/

New laws will clamp down on SA whale watching

Melanie Gosling July 03 2006 at 10:54AM

New laws in the pipeline will clamp down on people who harass whales and dolphins and will make it easier to take the culprits to court and convict them.

Draft regulations by the department of environment affairs and tourism on whales, dolphins and turtles have increased the distance any boat or aircraft has to keep between itself and whales and dolphins from 300m to 500m.

Mike Meyer of Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) said: "At the moment, all boats that don't have whale-watching permits have to keep 300m away.

"But we find that when guys are caught closer than 300m and it goes to court, the magistrates often accept it when the lawyer says: 'My client was just sitting there at 300m watching whales which is legal.'

Read more...

http://www.int.iol.co.za

Heavy snowfalls prove fatal for trio

August 17 2006 at 05:02AM By Stephanie Saville, Bronwyn Gerretsen and Sapa

Three people were found dead after they were trapped in snow at Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.

The snow also played havoc in KwaZulu-Natal, where several major routes were closed for hours on Wednesday.

Roads in parts of Mount Fletcher and between Matatiele and Quaggasnek - the road connecting the Eastern Cape and Lesotho - were also closed to traffic. Arrive Alive spokesperson Tshepo Machaea said Matatiele was one of the areas most affected by the snow. "Rural areas in Matatiele are not accessible at all. We are not sure when the roads there will be opened."

Disaster teams in the Eastern Cape were battling on Wednesday to clear roads of snow that had fallen in Barkly East and Elliot overnight.

No further details of the fatalities were available at the time of going to press.

Read more...

http://www.iol.co.za/

New Durban airport is expected to lift property prices

August 17, 2006 By Samantha Enslin

Durban - The new airport to be built north of Durban is expected to lift property prices in surrounding areas, but some affected residents are expected to resist the development due to noise pollution.
Clive Greene, the owner of the Pam Golding Ballito franchise, said yesterday: "The new airport will encourage a lot of secondary businesses. Employees of these companies will need homes and we are likely to see the development of more affordable properties priced at about R1 million."

Ballito, which is 10km from the new airport, is an up-market holiday spot.Property prices in the area had increased between 20 and 30 percent each year for the last two years, Greene said.

Read more...

http://www.busrep.co

SA exports to US surge 25% on firm metal prices

August 17, 2006 By Ethel Hazelhurst

Johannesburg - South Africa's exports to the US surged more than 25 percent to $3.6 billion (R24.5 billion) in the first half of 2006, compared with the same period last year.
The figure, which comes from data on trade released by the US state department last week, is a reassuring sign that demand for South African goods in the US is still strong.

The strongest growth came from South Africa's single biggest export to the US by value, minerals and metals. This category rose 33 percent to $2.6 billion.
According to Industrial Development Corporation economist Nnzeni Netshitomboni, 34 percent of South African exports to the US in the first half were platinum group metals.

Motor cars constituted about 5 percent and diamonds 7 percent.
The surge in price of platinum group metals was an important factor. Platinum rose from less than $1 000 an ounce at the start of the year to more than $1 300, and remains above $1 200.

Read more...

http://www.busrep.co.za/

Business Connexion has global out-sourcing plans

August 17, 2006 By Thabiso Mochiko

Johannesburg - Business Connexion was planning to make inroads into the lucrative offshore outsourcing market, the listed information technology group said yesterday as it released results that showed annual profit had halved.

The global strategy would include looking at how to offer services to existing Business Connexion clients with operations outside South Africa, such as Sasol.

Chief executive Peter Watt said the group, whose purchase by Telkom for R2.4 billion is awaiting competition approval, had lost global contracts last year because it did not have a substantial global footprint.

Read more...

http://www.busrep.co.za/

Sappi expands Durban cellulose plant

August 17, 2006 By Godfrey Mutizwa

Johannesburg - Sappi, the world's largest producer of glossy paper used in magazines such as Vogue, started work on a $460 million expansion of a chemical cellulose plant that will boost capacity by more than a third.

The Umkomaas plant in Durban will add 225 000 tons to annual production, Sappi said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday. The project should be completed by May 2008, increasing annual output to 825 000 tons.

Most of the new production will be exported to Asia, Europe and North America. Chemical cellulose, made from eucalyptus trees, is used as a raw material for consumer goods such as pharmaceuticals and food additives. – Bloomberg

Read more...

http://www.busrep.co.za/

Teaching firms plan for long-term challenges

12 April 2006 at 11h00

Managerial life today is probably tougher than before - and getting tougher as emerging global trends force leaders to grapple with complex issues that are having an impact on the business world.

Destruction of the environment; changing world demographics; terrorism;pandemics;increasing globalisation; mobility of capital and labour; the emergence of new economic powers like China and India;the impact of technology; the changing nature of work; global unemployment; and the growth of multinational organisations are some of the trends that affect business.

Professor Neil Duffy, one of South Africa's top information and knowledge management experts, believes that South African businesses need to tackle these global challenges so they can attempt to shape the future rather than be buffeted by it.

He says local business people can't sit back and think these trends won't have an impact on them -they will, so it's imperative to plan ahead for the factors most likely to affect their organisations.

Because executives often get bogged down in the day-to-day challenges of leading a business, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has designed a programme to help them discover how long-term thinking can give their organisations a competitive advantage.

Read more...

http://www.ioljobs.co.za/

Women lead march to fight against crime

Staff Reporter August 17 2006 at 11:39AM

Women from all law enforcement agencies in the city marched this morning to pledge support to other women in their fight against crime and abuse.

Johannesburg Metro Police spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the march would be from Beyers Naude Square to Constitution Hill in Braamfontein.
"Policewomen from the Johannesburg Metro Police, the South African Police Service and provincial officers will take part," Minnaar said.

Gauteng Community Safety MEC Firoz Cachalia will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Women's March with the women officers at a luncheon at 1pm.
Minnaar said the march would start at 7am and end at 11am. The following streets will be affected: President, Rissik, Harrison and Commissioner. - Staff Reporter

http://www.int.iol.co.za/

Find the Point of the Cape

August 17 2006 at 11:25AM

The Kanonkop path at Cape Point is a useful short circular route, if you don't have time to tackle the full splendour of the False Bay Scenic Walk.

You could start at the first small parking area on the Black Rocks road, or at the old lime-kiln - either way it's about an hour's scramble up to the old cannon.

It's thought that the cannon was placed there by the Royal Navy some time after 1806, as part of a chain of cannons that would be fired to warn of the approach of ships to Simon's Bay.

Pity the fellow who spent lonely days on the wild and windy summit of the 'kop, waiting for hostile ships that never came.

This is an area popular with some of the larger animals at Cape Point, and you'll notice how frequently small game paths intersect with your trail. This might be a useful moment to point out one or two things about Cape Point's game animals.

In the past I've frequently heard comments upon how seldom one sees animals at Cape Point - except the baboons, of course.

Well, apart from the fact that lots of the big animals shouldn't really be there at all, they're usually easy to find - if you know where to look.

Throughout the Cape Point area there are patches of open ground where, at some time in the past,invasive vegetation was removed - usually rooikrantz.

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http://www.int.iol.co.za/

Go to hell, church tells NSPCA

2006-08-17 14:03:55 Bela Bela –

The organisers of a bird hunting competition for a Limpopo Hervormde Kerk have reacted angrily to objections voiced by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA). "They can go to hell," co-ordinator Jurie Dykema told Sapa on Thursday. "And you can tell them I said that."
Speaking from Bela Bela, he said the hunt on Saturday was being organized for the Warmbad Hervormde Kerk as a fund-raising event.
"It's all for a good cause, and we don't intend breaking any laws."

Read more...

http://www.mweb.co.za/

Note from Maureen Cram:

Here is the SPCA's official comment via a press relase that they sent out:

Bird Hunt Condemned

Complaints and concerns from the general public alerted the NSPCA to an advertisement in Die Pos , a local publication in the Nylstroon (Limpopo) area. The Dutch Reformed Church was advertising a bird hunt. Contact details were given, including that of the church office.

Investigations by the NSPCA led to confirmation that an organised bird hunt would be run as a competition on Saturday 19 August 2006. People wishing to enter pay R500 or R2 000 to enter a team. They meet outside the Boeresaal in Settlers, Limpopo at 06h00 on the day of the hunt. The NSPCA was told that representatives from the Limpopo Department of Nature Conservation would be present to issue permits.

An NSPCA employee who contacted the organisers for details was told that straws would be drawn to indicate who goes where to shoot. Bird hunting would take place at 20 farms in the area. Points are given per bird shot, for example, a rock pigeon counts as 3 points.

In addition to ethical matters, including the active involvement of a church in an activity of wanton killing, the NSPCA believes that the entire concept is one of killing for fun and sport. The NSPCA shares the concerns of the public in that there may be chicks in nests left to die when parent birds have been shot. There is also the issue of wounded birds. It would be a violation of the Animals Protection Act No 71 of 1962 to shoot a bird and leave it with injuries to die.

Shotguns will be used to kill birds, including guinea fowl.

The NSPCA expresses disgust at the entire activity which it believes needs to be exposed in the public interest. This is unadulterated violence – killing made into a fun competition. It not only demonstrates reckless disregard for life but is an horrific example to set for all our citizens. This event needs to beheld up to the public eye, condemned for what it is and those involved – organisers and participants – ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

SA telescope 'worth its salt'

17/08/2006 12:19 - (SA)

Cape Town - Astronomers at South Africa's premier telescope site made public on Wednesday their first serious scientific results - a study of a binary star system 400 light years away from Earth.
The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) near to Sutherland in the Northern Cape was inaugurated in November 2005 and is the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere.
"Its the first serious science done with Salt... We have a real telescope here," said Dr Darragh O'Donoghue, principal investigator of the research which was submitted to the prestigious Royal Astronomical Society journals.
O'Donoghue, addressing the media, said the first scientific data from Salt demonstrated capabilities that other large telescopes did not have. "And that's the ability to take high-speed images with ultra sensitive CCD detectors... Not many telescopes in the world, big or small, have this kind of capability and none of the large telescopes do, except for Salt."
O'Donoghue said the observations of a "polar" binary star system - containing a compact star called a white dwarf star, which has used its original store of nuclear energy before shrinking, and a relatively ordinary companion - were the best of its kind made so far.
"They are a text book demonstration that what we think we understand about these stars is true," he said of the observations, with Salt's light-sensitive cameras able to take a rapid series of snapshots at every hundredth millisecond.

Read more...

http://www.news24.com/

Why can't cars be cheap?

16/08/2006 07:24

Everybody complains about high car prices - used and new - in South Africa. John Oxley has just returned from New Zealand where he discovered cars are cheap. Why can't it be the same here?

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http://www.wheels24.co.za/

ATM card-skimmers on the prowl

2006-08-18 11:58:57
Johannesburg - Users of automatic teller machines (ATMs) should be careful of card-skimming criminals, the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) said on Friday.
"The fraudsters are using sophisticated handheld card readers or scanners which are placed in the card-slot of an ATM and which clones the ATM user's card," said Gilbert Swats, chief executive officer of Sabric.
The thieves gain access to a client's account by obtaining the PIN number from the user by "lending a friendly hand" to a client whose transaction cannot be process at the ATM they are using.
"Because the victim still has their original card with them, they are none the wiser."

Read more…

http://www.mweb.co.za/

What women really want...

(August 18 2006 at 09:05AM)

Volumes have been written about what women really want and a recent survey of South African women sought answers to some of life's most burning issues.

It revealed that, without hesitation, most women in this country placed shopping before sex at the top of their fantasy hit parades, closely followed by spending time on a tropical island with their partners.

The Brutal Fruit Fantasy Survey was conducted to establish exactly what tickles the South African woman's fancy and forms part of the brand's fantasy campaign in which women across the country submit their personal fantasies in a competition where several are realised every month.

Survey results show that:

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http://www.int.iol.co.za/

How SA govt could have saved 75 000 lives

Fran Blandy | Toronto, Canada

If the South African government had rolled out anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs as fast as it could have, 75 000 lives could have been saved in 2005 alone, the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, heard on Thursday.

The country has the largest ARV programme in the world, yet the roll-out was not as good as it could have been, said Nicoli Natrassi, of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town. This was because of uneven roll-out across the nine provinces, lack of mobilisation of financial resources and failure to invest in human resources.

Read more...

http://www.mg.co.za/

State ignores Aids deadline

Niren Tolsi

The government’s foot-dragging response to a Durban High Court order to provide anti-retroviral treatment to HIV-positive prisoners continued this week when it ignored a deadline to give the High Court proof of its treatment plan for inmates at Durban’s Westville Prison.
Instead, it applied for leave to appeal against the judgement -- further drawing out a process that started in October last year.

Read more...

http://www.mg.co.za/

New weapon against HIV?

Fri, 18 Aug 2006

A "very promising" new HIV drug in advanced clinical trials will be made available to some patients resistant to other drugs, as part of a worldwide expanded access programme announced by Merck on Thursday.
The investigational integrase inhibitor MK-0518 had the ability to block a protein needed by the HI virus to enter human cells and reproduce, the Aids Conference in Toronto heard. The worldwide expanded access programme would start enrolling patients in the next few months.

Read more...

http://iafrica.com

SA has 'immoral' Aids theories

18/08/2006 21:46 - (SA)

Toronto - The South African government's HIV/Aids theories were worthy of a "lunatic fringe", the United Nations special envoy to Africa told the International Aids Conference in Toronto on Friday.

Stephen Lewis accused the South African government of expounding theories "more worthy of a lunatic fringe than a concerned and compassionate state", at the conference's closing session.

Lewis hauled the country over the coals in front of over 20 000 delegates during his address on the importance of treatment.

"Between 600 and 800 people a day die [of HIV/Aids] in South Africa.

"The government has a lot to atone for, and I am of the opinion they will never achieve redemption," Lewis said to a deafening roar of applause from the audience.

The African National Congress earlier called statements made by Lewis during the conference "unacceptable".

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http://www.news24.com/

Expats are coming home

Thu, 17 Aug 2006

About 1200 South African emigrants have returned to the country in the past two years, the Come Home Campaign said on Thursday.
Manager of the Campaign Alana Bailey said while many South Africans living and working abroad were hesitant to return because of crime and uncertainty about job opportunities, they missed "home" and wanted to return.
She said there were currently more than 3000 South Africans trying to come back to the country. "Lots of people are worried about crime, job prospects and are scared of local red tape, but they are trying to come back," said Bailey. "Sometimes it's difficult when people want to open businesses or bring back foreign spouses or pets. But that's what we are there for and we help them to return."

Read more...

http://business.iafrica.com

SAB again warns of beer email scam

Thu, 17 Aug 2006

South African Breweries (SAB) has again warned consumers about an email scan that is being widely circulated in South Africa and which promises free products from the company.
SAB initially put a warning out to the public on July 20 and the email has once again appeared in the public domain, SAB said in a statement on Thursday.
The email resembles a 'chain' letter and promises 12 cases of SAB's products if an email was forwarded to 'ten friends', and then copied to a company which SAB had never heard of and had no dealings with.

Read more...

http://business.iafrica.com/

Hundreds of investors descend on Zim

Thu, 17 Aug 2006

Close to 600 investors from the Republic of South Korea are to visit to Zimbabwe to explore investment opportunities, Harare's Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. Its website said they were expected in the country between now and November.

Read more...

http://business.iafrica.com

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Zim, Angola fail to sign SADC protocol

Maseru, Lesotho

Business

Zim, Angola fail to sign SADC protocol

Maseru, Lesotho
19 August 2006 07:32

Zimbabwe and Angola have failed to sign a Southern African Development Community (SADC) protocol aligning its finance and investment policies with its objectives.

"Some countries first need the approval of their Parliament ... they will be signing because there is no doubt they are in agreement," SADC chairperson and Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili said on Friday.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe only attended a part of the summit sessions on Friday.
However, Mosisili said nothing should be read into his absence. "President Mugabe is not a young man," he said.

He also pointed out that progress has been made addressing Zimbabwe's political and economic challenges.

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http://www.mg.co.za/

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A PERFECT DIET!

I have a Labrador retriever.
I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out.

A woman behind me asked if I had a dog?
On impulse, I told her that no, and that I was starting The Purina Diet again.
Although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time,
but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a really tall guy who was behind her. Horrified, she asked if ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I'd been sitting in the street licking "myself" and a car hit me.
I thought that tall guy was going to have to have help as he laughingly staggered to the door.

Submitted by Maureen Cram

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Because John's parents were married on Aug 27, his dad gives
his mom an "anniversary" card on the 27th of every month as
a way of showing her how much he loves her and appreciates
their many years together.

Recently, when John was talking to his Dad, he was told that
when he gave his Mom her most recent card she responded by
saying, "I'm so glad you do this every month. It reminds me
it's time to give the dogs their flea medication."

http://www.cleanjokeoftheday.com

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Province make it six in a row

August 20 2006 at 10:24AM

Western Province kept up their charge at the top of the Currie Cup table with a sixth consecutive victory as they downed the Pumas 43-10 at Newlands on Saturday.

It was a largely scrappy encounter and WP seldom moved out of third gear as they dominated almost every facet of the game.

Province led 17-10 after a thoroughly uninspired first half, with only fullback Gio Aplon's twinkle toes providing a highlight.

Flyhalf Naas Olivier put WP 3-0 up with a penalty after 11 minutes and two minutes later pulled off a try-saving tackle on Pumas hooker Ashton Constant after WP had failed to control a kick-off.

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