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women languishing inThai jail – PAGE 3

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WORLD: I sanctionedwaterboarding, says

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FOCUS: Cradockwo m e n ’s lives

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ADVENTURERS REPEAT DICKKING’S GRUELLING HORSE RIDE

ADVENTURERS REPEAT DICKKING’S GRUELLING HORSE RIDE ROBBERY DOESN’T PAY

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Ya c h t s m a nwas close tobeing fourthpirate victimNivashni NairA SOUTH African yachtsman yesterday told of hisnarrow escape after pulling out of a sailing trip withthree fellow South Africans, whose vessel washijacked by Somali pirates this week.

Peter Olivier, who is from Cape Town but nowlives in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, cannot under-stand why his friends were attacked on their wayfrom that port when they had planned to sail southto dock the yacht in Richards Bay.

International Relations Department officials inPretoria and European Union authorities have saidthe yacht was captured by pirates off the coast ofKenya, to the north.

Olivier said a ruptured Achilles tendon, which hesuffered while playing cricket, saved him from theill-fated journey on the S Y Choizil.

News broke on Sunday that Somali pirates hadcaptured Bruno Pelizzari and his girlfriend, iden-tified only as Deborah, who were crew on the yachtowned by South African skipper Peter Eldridge.

Details of the hijacking are sketchy but author-ities have confirmed that the couple, who comefrom Durban and are members of the Bluff YachtClub, were taken hostage.

A French frigate, on patrol to protect vessels car-rying aid to Somalia, spotted the yacht on Sunday,but when it tried to get closer to the yacht, thewarship came under fire.

After running the yacht aground, the piratestried to force Eldridge and the couple off the ves-sel. But Eldridge stared them down at gunpoint.

S e a f a re r s ’ Assistance Programme official And-rew Mwangura yesterday said Eldridge had refusedto leave his yacht and was rescued.

“The pirates forced the couple off the yacht andwe believe they are being held on the Bajuni islandof Koyaama on the southern coast of Somalia.”

Mwangura said Eldridge “seemed OK” and hadbeen taken for medical tests.

Eldridge is now staying at the South African HighCommission in Nairobi.

Olivier, who pulled out of the trip weeks beforethe three set sail on October 21, said he was “wella w a re ” of the route that the S Y Choizil was set totake and that it was nowhere near Kenya.

“They would have been sailing south and notnorth so they would have been attacked some-where near Tanzania not Kenya,” he said.

Mwangura denied media reports that thehostages had been killed. “The pirates will keepthem alive because they will want to use them tobargain for a ransom,” he said.

Mwangura told Reuters earlier this week that So-

■ But new research is helping schools make sure girls don’t get left behind

Shock Bay teenagepregnancy ratesSTILL MISSING . . . South African couple Bruno

Pelizzari and his girlfriend, identified only as Deborah.

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GROUND-BREAKING research at Nel-son Mandela Bay schools has revealedshocking pregnancy rates among pu-pils as young as 15, with one schoolhaving to deal with 35 pregnant pupilswithin the past year.

But though the school principal says theproblem is widespread, and getting worse,the research has allowed authorities to in-stitute programmes that help pregnant girlsfinish their studies.

In the first study of its kind for the Bay,research by Nelson Mandela MetropolitanUniversity education professor RandalGrebe has found that pregnancy ratesamong pupils – especially in areas wherepoverty is rife – are continuing to increase,specifically because the problem is widelyignored by communities.

Grebe focused his research on Gelvan-dale High School, which is one of the city’sworst-affected schools when it comes toteen pregnancies.

Of about 650 girls at the school – t h e reare 1 300 pupils in total – 35 were pregnantthis year.

According to essays by the pregnant pu-pils, submitted anonymously as part of theproject, parenthood and the prospect ofraising children was extremely daunting.

“My boyfriend was supportive when Itold him I was pregnant, but he has not seenthe baby yet. He has not given me any fi-nancial support,” wrote a 17-year-old pupilwho recently gave bir th.

Cricketer seeks asylum after death threats

DREAM COME TRUE . . . Matriculants (from left) Monique Barlow, of Despatch High School, Luchelle Strydom, of Otto du Plessis, andSinazo Bidli, of Collegiate Girls’ High School, each won just under R10 000 in prizes as category winners in the La Femme Reach fora Dream Wear your Dream matric farewell dress competition held at the weekend at the King Edward Hotel. • See La Femme todayfor the full report and more photographs. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI

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RUNAWAY Pakistan cricketer Zul-q a rnain Haider is seeking asylum inBritain, telling Home Office officialsthat crooked bookies threatened tomurder him unless he agreed to riginternational matches.

The 24-year-old left the team’sDubai hotel before dawn on Mon-day and caught a flight to London,just hours before a one-day inter-national against South Africa, agame in which he was scheduled toplay. South Africa won the match toclinch the series 3-2.

Since his arrival at Heathrow, hehas been speaking to British immi-gration authorities in the hope of

being granted asylum. He told themhe would rather quit internationalcricket than “sell out the dignityand respect of my motherland” byagreeing to throw matches.

He said he had received the firstdeath threats last Friday night afterscoring the winning runs in an ODIagainst South Africa.

Yesterday, Haider gave details ofhis discussions with the British au-thorities to Pakistan’s Geo Tele-vision.

“I was approached by one personwho asked me to fix the fourth andfifth matches (against South Africa)and said there would be a problem

for me if I did not do it,” he said. “Ido not want to say who is involvedand who is not involved in thematch-fixing.”

He claimed underworld gangsbetting on Pakistan to lose Friday’smatch had been angry when hescored an unbeaten 19 that includ-ed the winning runs. The Pakistanvictory tied the series 2-2.

“I have decided it is best for me toretire from international cricketsince my family and I are constantlygetting threats.”

British authorities have prom-ised him the services of a lawyerand Pakistan’s High Commissioner

to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan,said the embassy would give himany assistance he might need.

A senior Lahore police officersaid security at Haider’s house inthe city had been “beefed up”.

British Home Office spokesmanSimon Barrett said immigration pol-icy did not allow him to commenton individual cases.

In August, Pakistan playersSalman Butt, the former captain,Mohammad Amir and MohammadAsif were accused of involvement inan alleged betting scandal during aTest in England. – Sapa-AP andSports Staff

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