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Peter Muthubi of the Nedbank Running Club, has been promoted to 10th place in this year’s Comrades marathon following the disqualification of third placed Sergio Moetsoneng who tested positive for an illegal substance.

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With the disqualification of Sergio Moetsoneng all the runners finishing from fourth to 11th were moved up one place in the finishing order, to complete the gold medal list.

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While some women declare that they will never sacrifice comfort for style, many more find the charm of high heels irresistible.

How crazy that our world is full of women walking around in high heel shoes that so obviously are causing their pain with every step! Probably the justification for this is the “the enhanced look”, and how this “look” makes the wearer feel. A pair of high heel shoes definitely accentuates the leg and changes the posture of a woman, so far as to give a woman more “stature” in a man’s world.

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The Japanese have been making reggae almost as long as Jamaicans have been exporting it. This phenomenon could have started as early as the mid-’70s, when the film “The Harder They Come” grafted the crime drama to Kingston’s reggae scene and became an international cult classic. Or, more likely, it began sometime around 1979, when Bob Marley landed for the first time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Since then, the reggae scene in Japan has cycled through several styles and sub-subcultures, but only in recent years has one crucial aspect of its identity fully emerged: Finally, Japanese reggae stars are singing in Japanese.

Yes, the performers still punctuate their lyrics with Jamaican patois and channel dancehall reggae’s tinny, digital riddims. And Kingston remains a crucial pilgrimage destination. But in Japan, whose appetite for foreign forms and fashions is insatiable, Japanese reggae has passed the point where critics — like the author of a 2002 Vibe article who described Japanese dancehall enthusiasts as wannabes — can dismiss it as another cultural curiosity. “Japanese dancehall is becoming more and more Japanese,” says Marvin D. Sterling, an Indiana University anthropologist whose book “Babylon East: Perfoming Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan” (Duke University Press, $23.95) came out last month.

As for the music? Much of it — while sonically similar to its Jamaican antecedents — is not bad, says Sterling. “They’re trying to do something different from what’s been given to them,” he says. “I see a lot of creativity in their music.” Sterling mentions bands like U-Dou & Platy in Okinawa, which incorporates the banjolike sanshin into their songs, and singers like Nanjaman, whose social concerns Sterling admires — if not the nationalism and homophobia that he inherited from some Jamaican musicians. Japanese practitioners, he says, often identify with reggae out of a shared sense of “blackness” — some channel anxieties over Western monoculturalism; others are of Korean descent and identify with the nationalist, anticolonial message of the genre. Still others are drawn to reggae’s messianic themes.

These days, the Japanese reggae scene is more rude boy — or even rapper — than rasta. A vibrant roots reggae scene flourished in beginning in the mid-’80s, but ebbed about a decade later. And there’s still a population of spiritual, ganja-smoking disciples of the Rastafari religion; they live mostly in Japan’s rural communities. But the scene is now dominated by dancehall — the pulsing, sweaty variant of the genre that centers on the D.J. clusters known as “sound systems.”

The current dancehall boom aligns with the success of Japanese performers abroad. Yokohama’s Mighty Crown won a 1999 sound system competition — a “sound clash” — in New York; the group now plays to tens of thousands in Jamaica, New York and hubs of the Jamaican diaspora in Canada and Germany. And in 2002, the Japanese reggae dancer Junko Kudo became the first non-Jamaican to win the Dancehall Queen contest in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Now, the largest contingent of international contestants there is Japanese. Kudo’s uniform has become something of a blueprint for Japanese reggae dancers: gold dreads, “Daisy Duke” cutoff shorts, knee-high socks.

Still, at spaces like Buenos and Harlem in Tokyo’s fashion-incubating Shibuya district, Club 24 in Yokohama and Metro in Kyoto, you won’t see too many dreadlocks. Sterling says dancehall fashions are urban but amorphous — kids will incorporate signifiers like the reggae colors of red, green and gold into boutique-bought outfits. Men wear athletic apparel, women aim mostly for tight-fitting but unrevealing, as most forms of reggae contain a conservative streak. “The ideal is anything goes,” says Sterling. “Within reason, anything goes.”

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Her acting career may not have started off well, what with her first foray into acting back in Spice World The Movie circa 1997 providing a field day for critics, but they have at least improved in recent years with her Ugly Betty cameo and rumoured role in Glee. This time, however, she won’t be playing herself – Ms. Beckham’s providing the voice for a Queen character in a new SpongeBob SqaurePants episode, called The Clash of Triton.

“I was so thrilled as my children love the show,” Victoria told the Metro of her new role. “When I told the boys I was going to be on the show, they were so excited! I had such a great time recording the voice of Queen Amphitrite. How fun to be a queen for a day!”

We can’t say we’ve ever pictured VB as an underwater sea-queen, but we’re looking forward to seeing the results when the episode airs in the US on Nickelodon, 5th July.

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s World Cup season, and whilst we can’t quite summons the energy to jump on the sofa and fly our flag, pictures of scantily-clad footballers is something we can happily get on board with – the second instalment of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Armani campaign ads has landed.

We only wish it was David Beckham, but alas, we’re a season or two too late. So once again, we’ll make do with Cristiano Ronaldo as the face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans as he shows off his mighty muscular body to the world – and we must admit, we much prefer the new naturale images to last season’s poses.

These campaign shots – shot in Madrid, no less – are part of a global campaign that will span the likes of London, New York, Paris, Rome, Toyko and Los Angeles in July, but if that’s not enough Ronaldo to keep you satisfied, fear not – he’ll be starring in an online commerical come September to showcase the AW10 collections from the Italian brand, too.

We bet a few more of you will be tuning into the Portugal games now, hmm?

Fashion fans will well remember us revealing last year that Mark Fast would be designing a range for Topshop, and finally, the time has come when we can begin to breathe with a little normality once again – his debut designs for the high street store have been unveiled.

The London-based designer has joined Topshop’s impressive roster of cool collaborations with hot young talent – there’s been Meadham Kirchoff, Louise Goldin Jonathan Saunders and Christopher Kane to name but a few in recent seasons – but his collection, more so than many, has been highly-anticipated for months.

And whilst we can’t get our hands on it just yet, we can at least prepare our elbows for the fashion-fuelled frenzy we’ll witness come July when it launches.

There’s just five pieces to the collection – four dresses and a skirt – but fans of the designer won’t be left disappointed. Fast’s signature fitted cob-web knit has been worked across each of the designs with that expert eye we’ve come to covet. We’re already eyeing up the black asymmetric dress, ￡150 (pictured)…

Prices start at ￡80 for the pink mini skirt which, considering the prices of his mainline collection can cost in the region of ￡1,000 upwards, is a comparative steal, we think you’ll agree. The collection will go on sale online and in major Topshop stores on July 7th – we suggest you put that date in your diary, we have a feeling it’ll fly off the shelves.

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