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/ 10 November 2003
The head of the South African Diamond Board, Abbey Chikane, said he has found no evidence to back a United Nations report citing South African companies, including De Beers, as linked to the illegal exploitation of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) natural resources.
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/ 10 November 2003
South Africa’s newspapers and former coach Nick Mallet on Monday called for a mass resignation of the country’s rugby administrators after the national side’s ”humiliating” defeat to New Zealand in the World Cup. ”If there was honour in any of them they would resign on their return,” said the editor of Business Day.
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/ 10 November 2003
Serena and Venus Williams continued to cast long shadows at the WTA Tour Championships on Sunday, when they were absent from a parade of former top-ranked players at a ceremony honouring the 30th anniversary of the WTA Tour. World number ones on hand included Martina Navratilova and her longtime rival Chris Evert.
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/ 10 November 2003
Defending Serie A champion Juventus took over sole possession of first place in Italy on Sunday and Arsenal stayed in front in England and Deportivo de la Coruna reclaimed the top spot in Spain. Juventus came back from a one-goal deficit to beat Udinese 4-1. AC Milan, who had been tied with Juventus, was held to a 0-0 draw at Parma.
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/ 10 November 2003
Western Province wrapped up their SuperSport Series cricket match against Border in a highly professional manner at Mercedes-Benz Park on Monday, winning by 176 runs. It was a dismal batting performance from Border coming a day after they dropped a number of catches that could have changed the course of the match.
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/ 10 November 2003
Athletics South Africa announced on Monday that its doping tribunal, chaired by Monty Hacker, having considered all the evidence presented to the tribunal last week, has found steeplechase athlete Alexandra Motone guilty of a doping offence in terms of the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
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/ 9 November 2003
Rogue engineers from South Africa have allegedly been selling weapons secrets to Pakistan, helping that country overcome restrictions on arms sales imposed since the 1999 coup by General Pervez Musharraf. A Pinetown air weapons specialist faces 21 counts ranging from fraud to theft and contraventions of the Armscor Act and the Copyright Act.
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/ 9 November 2003
Few experiences have touched Zola Skweyiya as much as a visit to a remote village, Masoyi in Mpumalanga, where he found a whole community openly discriminating against three children who were suspected of being HIV-positive. But he believes that the battle to ease the hardships of the poor is being won.
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/ 9 November 2003
At least five people died and some 100 were wounded when a midnight suicide car bombing tore apart an Arab housing compound west of Riyadh, officials said on Sunday, blaming the al-Qaeda terror network. The atrocity came the same day the US closed its missions in Saudi Arabia for a security review after warning of possible attacks.