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/ 21 October 2003
Rima Wakarua kicked four penalties and a conversion, and Canadian counterpart Jared Barker missed four of his seven as Italy scored a 19-14 victory on Tuesday to set up a likely World Cup showdown with Wales. The two teams matched each other with one try each.
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/ 21 October 2003
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson returns to his hometown of Glasgow to face his former club Rangers and former protégé Alex McLeish in a Champions League ”Battle of Britain”. It’s the first time in Ferguson’s 17-year career at Man United that he’s going back for a competitive match to the club where he used to play.
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/ 20 October 2003
A major privatisation and black economic empowerment deal has suffered a blow as a result of this week’s Constitutional Court ruling that the Richtersveld community has a legitimate claim to the land where a government-owned company, Alexkor, was prospecting for diamonds.
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/ 20 October 2003
South Africa cannot afford to stall land reform and the government is committed to meeting its 2015 deadline of redistributing a third of white-owned commercial agricultural land to black owners, said Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza at AgriSA’s annual congress in Bloemfontein two weeks ago.
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/ 20 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday expressed shock following a road accident that left 15 pensioners dead and 13 seriously injured. The pensioners were queuing to collect their grants when a horse and trailer ploughed into the pensioners on the side of the road.
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/ 20 October 2003
Retrenching workers is not the only means Iscor intends to use to deal with the combined impact of the collapse in the demand for steel and the continuing strengthening of the rand, the company said on Monday. It has already merged its flat and long steel businesses and thus eliminated duplication.
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/ 20 October 2003
The government has political power, but not enough influence on the mechanisms of the state to turn them into real tools of social and economic development. This is a crucial finding of the government’s 10-year review of the first decade of freedom released on Thursday.
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/ 20 October 2003
Swaziland was poised on Monday to release the results of parliamentary elections held at the weekend, which pro-democracy groups had urged voters in the tiny southern African country, the continent’s last absolute monarchy, to boycott. ”All the results are in and voting is officially over for now,” said election information officer John Mkhonta.
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/ 20 October 2003
An unacceptable number of women in developing countries die giving birth compared with the rest of the world and the imbalance must be corrected with better access to health care, three UN agencies said on Monday.