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/ 30 September 2005
It may be that the enduring memory about Solomon ”Stix” Morewa will be when, as the president of the South African Football Association (Safa), he was told to quit or be fired by the government-appointed Pickard commission into irregularities in the game. That would be, however, only one of the chapters in a biography of a man who did more good than harm.
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/ 29 September 2005
Nigeria’s Anglican archbishop said on Thursday that Nigerian churches might cut ties with the Church of England if it did not revise its stance on homosexuality, which accepts gay priests in same-sex partnerships. ”As of now, we have not yet reached the point of schism, but there’s a broken relationship,” Archbishop Peter Akinola told reporters in the capital, Abuja.
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/ 29 September 2005
The deaths of five people during a night of clashes on the Spanish-Moroccan border on Thursday once again threw into focus the growing pressure exerted by illegal immigration on the gateways into the European Union across the Mediterranean Sea.
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/ 29 September 2005
Roger Kebble, father of slain mining magnate Brett Kebble, is not planning to step into his son’s shoes. ”I’m just a fairly simple miner. I will stick to my knitting. I don’t think I’m going to step into those shoes,” Kebble told a press conference at his son’s home in Inanda, Johannesburg, on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2005
John Roberts, President George Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, gained easy Senate confirmation on Thursday to become the United States high court’s 17th chief justice. Roberts was approved by a vote of 78 to 22, with all of the Senate’s 55 Republicans voting in lockstep to support the nominee.
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/ 29 September 2005
The prosecution of two Nigerian men who face the death penalty after being accused of sodomy suffered a setback on Thursday when a second police witness said that he had not actually seen the pair having sex. Police Constable Garba Umar was the second officer to admit that he had not witnessed the alleged act.
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/ 29 September 2005
Roger Federer polished his game at the expense of an outsider while Lleyton Hewitt was made to struggle into the quarterfinals of the  000 Thailand Open on Thursday. Top seed Federer put a bumpy start 24 hours earlier behind him, rushing past German unknown Denis Gremelmayr 6-3, 6-2.
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/ 29 September 2005
The proposed statue of Nelson Mandela for London’s Trafalgar Square has become a bone of contention, writes Hugh Muir.