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/ 3 December 2004
Once again South African rugby is in trouble. Last time it was Straeuligate, which led to Staaldraadhekkie where otherwise respectable Springbok rugby stars were forced to scrum in the nude, cook eggs with nothing but the warmth of their personalities and spend long nights in the bush plucking (sic) dead chickens. Rescue for SA rugby has come in the shape of much needed advice from the African National Congress Youth League.
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/ 3 December 2004
England’s cricket tourists are counting down their three days left in Zimbabwe, two of which they want to spend beating the home side as comprehensively as possible.
England won the first two of the four internationals — the first just comfortably, the second on Wednesday in a wicket spree by Alex Wharf (four wickets) and James Anderson (three) to skittle the young Zimbabweans for 102.
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/ 2 December 2004
A ”serious incident” has occurred between soldiers from the Sudanese army and members of a commission, led by Chad, monitoring a ceasefire in Sudan’s Darfur region, corroborating sources said on Thursday. According to the rebels’ military spokesperson, the ceasefire commission team was attacked by troops from the Sudanese armed forces.
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/ 2 December 2004
The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu), which has slammed a R502-million deal between an agricultural company and a black economic empowerment (BEE) consortium, on Thursday warned it would take industrial action if its concerns were not addressed. The deal was between agricultural services group Afgri and the consortium Agri Sizwe.
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/ 2 December 2004
Britain will give priority to tackling global poverty, climate change and the Aids epidemic when it assumes the presidency of the Group of Eight nations in the second half of 2005, the government said on Thursday. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown told parliament that Britain would ”make its G8 presidency count to meet the needs of the developing world.”
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/ 2 December 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called for unity at a crucial ruling party congress on Thursday amid tensions within the governing Zanu-PF about the election of a new vice-president. ”The message of unity… has continued to energise us even as our external and internal enemies have been vigorously seeking their dream of regime change,” Mugabe said.
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/ 2 December 2004
The vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Azarias Ruberwa, has called on Rwanda to withdraw troops from his country , after United Nations officials reported possible movements of Rwandan troops crossing the border. Ruberwa, who led a Rwandan-backed rebel group before joining the DRC’s postwar transitional government in September, said his country had taken its case to the United Nations Security Council.
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/ 2 December 2004
A project to clear landmines along paths used by elephants in a wildlife sanctuary in Angola was launched at a conference on landmines in Nairobi on Thursday. If the mines are cleared, an estimated 120 000 elephants in Botswana, whose numbers are growing at 5% annually, would be able to move north to Angola and Zambia during migratory periods.
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/ 2 December 2004
An egalitarian vicar has left a group of civic dignitaries sitting on their, well, dignity. Pam Potts, chair of Fenland District Council in central England, requested three dozen seats to be reserved at the front of St Peter and St Paul’s Church at Chatteris, near Cambridge, for the council’s annual carol service. Vicar James Thomson refused, telling Potts: ”All are equal before God.”