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/ 31 October 2003
D-Day has arrived for the South African 2010 bid company. Five inspectors from world soccer’s governing body, Fifa, arrived on Thursday to see for themselves whether South Africa is ready to host the World Cup in 2010. Only African countries are in the running for 2010.
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/ 31 October 2003
After a train accident last week at a Cape Town station, a police officer, describing what happened to journalists, saw fit to mention that the train driver was a female who could be charged with culpable homicide. When was the last time you heard it mentioned that the driver involved in an accident was a male? And when brakes fail, does the gender really matter?
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/ 30 October 2003
The former National Party government was a ”magnificent master or teacher” of the present African National Congress government regarding corruption, according to Federal Alliance leader, rugby supremo and businessman Louis Luyt. He has also voiced his support for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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/ 30 October 2003
Foreign Affairs official and former death row inmate Robert McBride has been appointed chief of the East Rand municipality’s Metro Police. The announcement was immediately decried by the Democratic Alliance, which said in a statement that it was reacting with ”shock and disgust” to the appointment.
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/ 30 October 2003
The United Nations will pull some staff out of Iraq after deadly bombings at both of its offices in Baghdad, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The UN joins the International Committee of the Red Cross in leaving the Iraqi capital in the wake of anti-foreign violence.
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/ 30 October 2003
Two Japanese satellites have been in trouble following geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares, one of them the largest in three decades, the Japanese space agency said on Thursday. Adeos-2, one of the world’s biggest earth observation satellites, has lost contact with the Earth.
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/ 30 October 2003
Tourism operator Thomas Cook is set to bring the first of 26 000 Germans over the next two years to South Africa on Friday. It has organised charter flights from Germany as a result of a ground-breaking agreement signed between the tour operator, South African Tourism, Tourism KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape Tourism Board.
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/ 30 October 2003
Ugandan rebels bludgeoned 13 civilians to death and abducted several other people when they raided a village in the north of the country, a member of parliament said on Thursday.