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/ 26 November 2003
Four-time European champions and 18-time English league winners Liverpool face the stark reality of their decline as a soccer superpower on Thursday as they try to salvage their season by progressing in the Uefa Cup. A 0-0 stalemate at Middlesbrough left Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool side ninth in the Premiership.
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/ 26 November 2003
About 800 pages of a so-called secret informer file was handed to the defence counsel in the Boeremag treason trial on Wednesday. This followed after the senior counsel for the police, Bert Bam, studied the file and concluded that the defence was entitled to certain of the documents.
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/ 26 November 2003
Springbok skipper Corne Krige said on Wednesday players are taking legal advice over images screened around the world showing South Africa’s national rugby team naked at a military-style ”boot camp”. Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour summoned rugby chiefs to a meeting on Wednesday to learn more about the camp.
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/ 26 November 2003
Shares in Leeds United plunged nearly 20% on Wednesday after the struggling Premiership club warned it is in serious danger of being forced into administration. The warning came on the day the club had planned to announce details of a restructuring of debts of nearly £80-million.
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/ 26 November 2003
Former South African Test cricket captain and current Eastern Province coach Kepler Wessels was on Wednesday cleared of allegations of making racist remarks to two Eastern Province players because of a lack of evidence. Wessels was accused of calling two players ”animals”.
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/ 25 November 2003
Controversial legislation requiring school governing bodies to apply to provincial education departments for permission to give teachers extra pay or benefits was approved on Tuesday. ”We have too many cases … of ‘perks for pals’, determined only by the principal,” said Education Minister Kader Asmal.
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/ 25 November 2003
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Tuesday dismissed Democratic Alliance claims that his medium-term Budget policy statement is a pre-election budget. It is not a pre-election budget because the African National Congress does not need a pre-election budget. We are confident of the ground we stand on,” Manuel said.
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/ 25 November 2003
Former death-row inmate Robert McBride said on Tuesday there is no aspect of his past that he is ashamed of. He was officially introduced as the new chief of Ekurhuleni Metro Police, an appointment that has drawn criticism from the Democratic Alliance and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union.
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/ 25 November 2003
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has not been invited to the Commonwealth summit due to be held in Nigeria next month, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Tuesday. Mugabe and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf will not be attending as their nations are suspended from the Commonwealth’s ruling councils.