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/ 2 December 2003
Burdened by the weight of captaincy, Eastern Province (EP) cricket skipper Carl Bradfield stood down from that position on Monday. The 28-year-old lefthanded opening batsman said on Monday he was not enjoying the pressures of the captaincy and felt it was time to give someone else a chance.
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/ 2 December 2003
The West Indies cricket team arrived in South Africa on Monday afternoon ahead of their two-month tour. The West Indies, under the captaincy of Brian Lara, arrived from Zimbabwe where they completed a 3-2 win in the one-day international series and won the Test series one-nil.
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/ 2 December 2003
England’s World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson might be asked to coach his English Premiership club, Leicester. He could be offered the job if current coach Dean Richards goes to Stade Francais. Reports said that would happen if the French side’s own coach, Nick Mallett, took over from Rudolf Straeuli as Springbok coach.
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/ 1 December 2003
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, branded an absolute obstacle to peace by Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, is trying to exploit Monday’s launch of an unofficial peace plan to portray his arch-enemy as the real hurdle to a resolution of the Middle East conflict, according to observers.
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/ 1 December 2003
Several companies, including banks, added their voice to the commemoration of World Aids Day on Monday. DaimlerChrysler’s chief executive Jurgen E Schrempp said the pandemic can only be overcome if all sectors in society, including business, work together.
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/ 1 December 2003
As the international community marks World Aids Day on Monday December 1, Swaziland has reached an unhappy milestone. The country now has the same proportion of adults infected with HIV as Botswana, the country with the greatest HIV prevalence rate.
Aids in Ethiopia
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/ 1 December 2003
U2 lead singer Bono made a surprise appearance at a sparsely attended Aids Day rally organised by the Treatment Action Campaign and Cosatu in the Cape Town city hall, and told HIV-positive people they were "the real heroes".
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