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/ 12 February 2004
Banyana Banyana are confident of beating Angola again — this time around in their own backyard in Luanda in the team’s second Athens Olympic Games qualifier on Saturday. ”We are ready for anything that the Angolans will throw at us,” said Banyana Banyana coach Gregory Mashilo.
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/ 12 February 2004
Orlando Pirates’ good form continued at Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday where they scored a comfortable 2-0 win over top-of-the-log Santos in a Castle Premiership fixture marred by wet conditions. Pirates held the initiative throughout the 90 minutes from a Santos side that lacked urgency.
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/ 11 February 2004
The treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, reopened on Wednesday with an aide to Tsvangirai saying they had been taken for a ride by a Canadian political consultancy firm.
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/ 11 February 2004
Convicted apartheid killer Eugene de Kock was accused by a fellow inmate on Wednesday of fabricating evidence for submission to the Jali Commission of Inquiry into prison maladministration. Hendrik Slippers said De Kock and another prisoner held meetings with warders to discuss discrediting witness Louis Karp.
Prisoners falling through ‘gap’
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/ 11 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki said little on Wednesday to answer the questions around Aids, Zimbabwe and crime posed to him during the two days of debate on his State of the Nation address. Speaking in the National Assembly, Mbeki said consensus was reached during the debate on the challenges facing South Africa.
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/ 11 February 2004
An influential Nigerian Islamic body on Wednesday warned the London-based rights group Amnesty International to stop interfering in Islamic religion in the name of human rights campaigns. A new Amnesty report condemns the use of the death penalty in 12 Nigerian states where the Sharia legal system is in operation.
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/ 11 February 2004
Haitian police retook three towns from rebels battling President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the government pledged to win back control of all territory lost during battles that have left at least 42 dead in five days. The United Nations has warned that Haiti faces a major humanitarian crisis.
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/ 11 February 2004
Former security police colonel Gideon Niewoudt has been arrested and charged for the deaths of the so-called Pebco Three in 1985, the Scorpions said on Wednesday. The Scorpions arrested Niewoudt in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning. He later briefly appeared in the city’s Magistrate’s Court and was released on R50 000 bail.
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/ 11 February 2004
Thousands of supporters have signed a petition that Botswana’s Gana and Gwi Bushmen be allowed to return to their ancestral land, a human rights spokesperson said on Wednesday. The petition, containing 100 000 signatures, will be handed to Botswana consulates and embassies this week.