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/ 17 November 2004
England coach Andy Robinson has warned his team to expect a gruelling encounter against the Springboks at Twickenham on Saturday. Tri-Nations champions South Africa saw their hopes of a Grand Slam disappear last Saturday with a 17-12 defeat against Ireland in Dublin, and they will be desperate to get back to winning ways.
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/ 17 November 2004
Jean de Villiers is the only change to the South Africa side announced on Wednesday for the Twickenham Test against world champions England in London on Saturday. De Villiers comes in at left wing in the place of Ashwin Willemse, who has returned home with a broken toe.
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/ 17 November 2004
Black Springbok Breyton Paulse was reinstated in the national rugby team to play England on Saturday only after the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) protested, the league said on Wednesday. ”I phoned … and complained about this lily-white squad,” said ANCYL spokesperson Zizi Kodwa.
One change to Bok team
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/ 17 November 2004
A promotions van drives by, its four loud speakers blaring news of a concert that is scheduled to take place over the weekend. At taxi ranks, hundreds of vehicles assemble to load passengers who are called to get on board. In the noisy St Balikudembe, Uganda’s biggest market, almost every vendor asks passersby in a sing-song voice to take something off the shelf. A car alarm goes off, then a second, and a third. Heard enough? Wait — there’s more…
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/ 16 November 2004
Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera said on Tuesday it has received a videotape showing the slaying of a woman believed to be British hostage Margaret Hassan. Jihad Ballout, Al-Jazeera spokesperson, said the station received the tape a few days ago but was not sure of its authenticity.
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/ 16 November 2004
Protesters marching against the Johannesburg City Council’s installation of pre-paid water meters on Tuesday refused to hand over their memorandum of grievances and demands to anyone other than the mayor, Amos Masondo. It was the sixth time in a row that Masondo had failed to turn up, said organiser Trevor Ngwane.
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/ 16 November 2004
United States and Iraqi troops pushed into insurgent-heavy neighbourhoods and stormed police stations in Mosul on Tuesday, launching an offensive to retake parts of this northern Iraqi city where militants staged a mass uprising last week in support of insurgents in Fallujah.
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/ 16 November 2004
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The Durban High Court’s dismissal of an application by television and radio stations to broadcast from the Schabir Shaik trial was a blow for freedom of expression, the National Press Club said on Tuesday. The trial is an event of national importance, it said, as it involves the spending of taxpayers’ money.
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/ 16 November 2004
A Nigerian court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for conspiring with others to kill his wife as part of a money-making magic ritual, a court official said on Tuesday. The man was said to have conspired with ritualists who had promised him money to remove vital organs such as his wife’s right eye, right breast and genitals.