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/ 9 December 2003
South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen says the board of SA Rugby will meet in Johannesburg on Wednesday to discuss and agree on the way forward following the widespread changes within the game’s top structure last week. He also acted to quell media speculation on numerous current matters.
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/ 9 December 2003
Western Province won the Sportstrust Charity Cup match against the Rest of South Africa by 16 runs in a rain-interrupted, limited overs-match at Newlands on Monday night. Western Province scored 155/5 in 30 overs before heavy showers chased the players off the field.
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/ 8 December 2003
Amid a new wave of circumcision deaths and arrests, Eastern Cape traditional leaders continue to reject the province’s clampdown on illegal circumcision schools. The head of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa in the province said on Monday that chiefs are ”extremely unhappy”.
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/ 8 December 2003
President Thabo Mbeki’s persistent policy of ”quiet diplomacy” toward Zimbabwe is a dangerous game that could ultimately claim his dream of an African renaissance, analysts warned on Monday. South Africa lobbied fiercely for its northern neighbour’s return to the Commonwealth at the weekend.
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/ 8 December 2003
Meteorologists in Spain on Monday warned against further severe rainfall and storms following a weekend in which six people died in severe weather conditions. Forecasters predicted additional rainfall of up to 100 litre per square metre and snow at levels above 600m.
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/ 8 December 2003
Seven people died instantly when lightning struck the house in which they stayed at Goqwana village, Tsolo, in the Transkei, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Five others were taken to the St Lucy hospital with injuries. All the victims were in one room at the house when the lightning struck on Sunday.
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/ 8 December 2003
Hundreds of Liberian fighters handed in their guns to United Nations peacekeepers at Schieffelin camp, 35km southeast of the capital, Monrovia, as the formal disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of an estimated 40Â 000 combatants got under way.
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/ 8 December 2003
Former security police officer Bernie Ley apologised on Monday for creating the incorrect impression regarding National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s being an apartheid spy.
‘I was played like a fiddle’
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/ 8 December 2003
The Civil Aviation Authority said on Monday that the final report into the circumstances surrounding the air crash that killed former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje and two pilots will be released in February. An outstanding report regarding an aircraft component has been received from the United States.