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/ 14 November 2003
The South African Hockey Association and its long-standing sponsor, Nedbank, parted ways this week after a fruitful relationship dating back about 15 years. The president of the South African Hockey Association, Charles Smith, announced on Thursday that Nedbank has not renewed its sponsorship.
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/ 14 November 2003
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has never pretended to enjoy sheltering Liberian strongman and former president Charles Taylor. And last week Washington drafted a Bill channelling money for the redevelopment of Afghanistan and Iraq and a -million reward for the capture of “an indictee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone”.
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/ 14 November 2003
Coach Clive Woodward promised fans they would see the ”real England” when the Six Nations champions faced France in their World Cup semifinal in Sydney at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday. ”I keep saying to people it is just about winning,” said Woodward.
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/ 14 November 2003
Africa’s largest country is finally moving towards an end to the continent’s longest-running civil war. Sudan has been locked in civil war between the Muslim north and Christian south for 36 of its 47 years of independence. More than two million people have died in the conflict.
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/ 14 November 2003
With Australia and New Zealand weighed down by expectation heading into their semifinal on Saturday, Wallabies captain George Gregan predicts neither team will hold anything back for a possible World Cup final. ”We’re not going to die wondering tomorrow night,” Gregan said on Friday. ”It’s going to go the 80 minutes.”
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/ 14 November 2003
AC Milan’s want-away Brazilian midfielder Rivaldo has revealed he has held negotiations with Liverpool. ”It’s true that I had conversations with Liverpool, but the negotiations haven’t finished yet, so I can’t add anything else,” Rivaldo said. ”I’m just waiting for this year to finish, to see what happens next.”
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/ 13 November 2003
A caller to Metro FM this week berated Johnnic management for being ”coconuts” — blacks behaving like whites. But Johncom CEO Connie Molusi, who terminated Sunday Times editor Mathatha Tsedu, acted — perhaps overreacted — to factors in which things were much more complicated than simple black-white identity.
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/ 13 November 2003
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday said almost the entire provincial leadership of the Freedom Front Plus in Limpopo had decided to join it instead. However, the FF+ said all provincial structures had been disbanded after provincial leader Gerhard Venter had apparently appeared in court on a criminal charge.
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/ 13 November 2003
Rebels in south Sudan have launched a diplomatic offensive in Africa, ahead of November 30 peace talks in Kenya, as part of efforts to end Sudan’s 20-year civil war. More than two million people, most of them civilians, have died in Sudan since the fighting between rebels and the Islamic government in the north resumed in 1983.