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/ 24 November 2003

Stars shine in semifinal

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

Bishop not impressed with Bok management

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

Klien out to impress Jaguar bosses

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

Spurs have a new man for top job

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

Aids adds to poverty spiral

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

Road fund in disrepair

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 on the brink of chaos

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.