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/ 11 December 2003
Erstwhile Springbok coach Nick Mallett is out of the running to become the new Bok coach, South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen revealed on Wednesday when he announced the four-man Springbok coaching shortlist. He also denied that any discussions with Mallett had taken place.
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/ 11 December 2003
National cricket coach Eric Simons brushed aside criticism on Wednesday that the South African bowling attack will struggle to dismiss the West Indies twice in a Test match. South Africa meets the Windies in the first of four Tests at the Wanderers on Friday in a series many believe will be a battle between the respective batting line-ups.
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/ 11 December 2003
With the confirmation of the outbreak of equine flu in the Western Cape comes the news that racing could be seriously affected in that region for an indefinite period. Tony Barnes, CEO of the Jockey Club of Southern Africa, confirmed that racing would not take place in Cape Town until further notice.
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/ 11 December 2003
Tsholola Tshinyana scored in the 27th minute to push Ajax Cape Town back to the top of the PSL log, one point above Santos, for a narrow 1-0 win against Moroka Swallows at Newlands on Wednesday night. In the second half Ajax were lucky to survive a mighty onslaught by the the rampant visitors.
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/ 11 December 2003
Pele has turned down an invitation from Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane to appear in a United Nations fund-raising match in Basel, Switzerland, next Monday. France superstar Zidane and his Real Madrid teammate Ronaldo will captain opposing teams in the friendly, for which all 30 000 seats have already been snapped up.
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/ 11 December 2003
Portuguese-based striker Benni McCarthy dropped a major bombshell when he announced his retirement from the national soccer team. This was announced prior to Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba naming his 22-man Bafana Bafana squad on Thursday to play at the African Nations Cup finals in Tunisia next month.
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/ 10 December 2003
Twenty-seven people were injured, including four seriously, when the train they were on derailed on Wednesday in southern Greece, hospital sources said. Thirty-seven people were on the train when two of its coaches derailed near the town of Megalopolis under circumstances that are under investigation.
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/ 10 December 2003
Scores of Zimbabwean human rights lawyers staged a half-hour demonstration in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday to protest at the assault and harassment of lawyers and judges. The lawyers marched from the Supreme Court across the city’s busiest streets during the lunch rush hour.
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/ 10 December 2003
No fewer than 580 corruption probes are currently under way against Department of Correctional Services employees, a senior official revealed on Wednesday, speaking at a briefing by senior departmental officials on the draft White Paper on Corrections, which was recently approved in principle by the Cabinet.
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/ 10 December 2003
Sudan’s fledgling civil society organisations are demanding the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) as soon as the final peace agreement between the government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army is signed. The agreement seeks to bring to an end Africa’s longest-running conflict.