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/ 16 January 2004
The unemployed youths, civil servants and 1994 genocide survivors in the blue, yellow and green kits who make up the Wasps, Rwanda’s national soccer team, don’t look like they pack much of a sting.
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/ 16 January 2004
Although Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba’s position as Bafana Bafana coach has been terminated by the SA Football Association (Safa), according to law he is still coach of the national soccer team following a Friday Johannesburg court ruling.
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/ 16 January 2004
Graeme Smith survived an almost certain run out chance to help South Africa to a healthy 70 without loss at lunch on the first day of the fourth cricket Test against the West Indies on Friday. After rain delayed the start of play by half an hour, Smith and Gibbs rattled along at almost four to the over.
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/ 16 January 2004
Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs raced to their third double century stand as South Africa’s dominance over the West Indies continued on the first day of the fourth cricket Test against the West Indies on Friday.
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/ 15 January 2004
Malawi on Thursday appealed for international food relief, saying a third of the country’s 11-million people face imminent starvation. ”Over 3,5-million Malawians … have already run out of food and are on the verge of starvation,” Agriculture Minister Chakufwa Chihana said.
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/ 15 January 2004
South Africa will announce draft regulations on Friday that aim to slash medicine prices by up to 70%, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said in Pretoria on Thursday. These regulations on transparent pricing had been delayed by four years due to legal action by pharmaceutical companies.
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/ 15 January 2004
The world’s largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, arrived on Thursday at the Portuguese island of Madeira under tight security following an anonymous bomb threat. The British shipping company Cunard received three anonymous phone calls in which the caller claimed there were bombs on board the ocean liner.
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/ 15 January 2004
Ethiopia’s fledgling film industry is turning its attention to fighting the HIV/Aids virus. Documentary filmmaker Kidane Yilak tells why he felt compelled to make Hidden Tears, the country’s first film addressing the stigma and discrimination prompted by the virus, and the threat posed by HIV/Aids.
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/ 15 January 2004
The official opposition has proposed a tax rebate system for both individual taxpayers and corporates to boost employment levels and spur economic growth. The Democratic Alliance’s leader, Tony Leon, introduced a "solutions at work" document on Thursday.