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/ 24 November 2003
Silver Stars completed a fairy tale when they reached the final of the Coca-Cola Cup in their first season in the Premier Soccer League. Stars defeated Golden Arrows 1-0 in Giyani on Sunday to earn the right to play the winner of the replay between Kaizer Chiefs and Wits University in the lucrative cup final.
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/ 24 November 2003
A horrified and angry Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has called on the South African Rugby World Cup management to apologise to the nation and to a much-loved rugby team. The archbishop was visibly upset when shown photographs of the players that were taken at their controversial training camp.
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/ 24 November 2003
Austria’s Christian Klien is confident he can impress Jaguar’s bosses at next week’s formula one testing in Valencia. Jaguar will give Klien and Townsend Bell of the United States a three-day test in Spain with a possible F1 spot at stake. Klien sees it as his ”one-in-a-million chance to take the big step”.
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/ 24 November 2003
Tottenham are set to make Chris Hughton their senior coach in a new continental-style set-up as a long-term replacement for manager Glenn Hoddle. Caretaker manager David Pleat will move aside as director of football — the position he occupied before Hoddle was sacked in September — with Hughton running the first team.
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/ 23 November 2003
Households affected by HIV/Aids are more likely to spiral into debt and spend less money on food– which, in the long run, will contribute to malnutrition and chronic poverty. A recent study shows that people spend less on food when they have to support a family member with Aids.
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/ 23 November 2003
On June 16 — almost unnoticed — the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Amendment Act of 2002 became law. The Act created equality courts, where ordinary people who believe they are victims of unfair discrimination can have their cases heard before a magistrate. These courts are at the risk of becoming white elephants.
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/ 23 November 2003
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has spent more than R60-million paying off employees allegedly unfairly dismissed and in "fruitless expenditure" on contracts whose value were dubious, an internal RAF audit report in the possession of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> shows.
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/ 23 November 2003
Georgia’s army has not been given any orders to use force against the opposition, the country’s defence minister said on Sunday. He spoke a day after opposition protesters stormed the Georgian Parliament, forcing embattled President Eduard Shevardnadze to flee and sending the former Soviet republic to the brink of chaos.
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/ 23 November 2003
Three Iraqis and four Americans were wounded in an explosion on Saturday at a heavily protected building belonging to the state-owned Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk, police and security officials said. A spokesperson said there had been an explosion but doubted it was caused by a rocket attack.
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/ 23 November 2003
Family and friends rushed to Michael Jackson’s defence, while fans planned candlelight vigils on Saturday to let shine the light of their faith in their idol, who stands charged with child molestation. The beleaguered pop icon kept a low profile early on Saturday at the Green Valley Ranch resort in Nevada.