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/ 30 October 2003
Twenty-one people were killed on the N1 when a bus and a truck were involved in a collision near Beaufort West in the early hours of Thursday. The accident happened around 1am about seven kilometres outside Leeu-Gamka, between Beaufort West and Laingsburg. That strip of road is infamous as a ”death run”.
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/ 30 October 2003
The number of US soldiers killed in combat in postwar Iraq rose on Wednesday above the number killed before May 1, the day President George Bush declared victory. Two soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb about 120 kilometres north of Baghdad, bringing US combat fatalities to 116 since May 1.
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/ 30 October 2003
When the rap impresario Sean ”P Diddy” Combs created his own clothing line, Sean John, he insisted: ”It’s not just a label, it’s a lifestyle.” But the lifestyle of those producing his streetwear, in a Honduran sweatshop, has been compared to ”slavery” in which workers are forced to take pregnancy tests and fired if the results are positive.
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/ 30 October 2003
England were fined £10 000 pounds and a member of their coaching staff given a two-match touchline ban at a hearing in Sydney on Thursday over the World Cup favourites’ fielding of a 16th player against Samoa. Tournament officials announced the punishment after a near-four-hour disciplinary hearing.
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/ 30 October 2003
”I think you’ll be surprised by Samoa, said Nick Far-Jones at a Rugby World Cup press conference in 1991, and rarely have truer words been uttered. Four days into the tournament I was one of the lucky ones who watched Western Samoa (as they were then called) beat Wales 16-13. The point is that 12 years down the line it’s time we stopped being surprised by Samoa.
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/ 30 October 2003
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith conceded on Wednesday that the national team lacked a genuine strike bowler on their recent tour of Pakistan and admitted that ”one or two places are up for grabs” for the West Indies tour. ”I think we did need a guy with genuine pace,” he said.
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/ 30 October 2003
After three days of careful jury selection, the defence and prosecution are scheduled to deliver opening statements on Friday in the case that turns on how Salt Lake City won the 2002 Winter Olympics. The defendants are accused of lavishing -million in cash, gifts and favours on International Olympic Committee delegates.
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/ 30 October 2003
Johannesburg-Wits University substitute Gareth Devine delivered a knockout punch when his 71st minute goal was enough to give the students a 1-0 win over cup holders Jomo Cosmos in a disappointing Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal clash played at Milpark’s Bidvest stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 30 October 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki is to meet the Federation Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) Technical Inspection Team while it is in South Africa to inspect the country’s capacity to host the 2010 World Cup.
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/ 30 October 2003
Romania ended a disappointing World Cup campaign on a winning note by beating Namibia 37-7 in Launceston on Thursday in the Pool A wooden-spoon game. It was a rare taste of success for their French coach Bernard Charreyre, who learned in midweek that his contract would not be renewed.