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/ 27 January 2004
Boxing promoter Don King won the first round of a legal battle with WBC world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on Monday when a judge refused to throw his libel action out of an English court. King is suing Lewis, his promotions company and lawyer Judd Burstein for libel, arising out of interviews Burstein gave to two websites.
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/ 27 January 2004
Italian-based Siyabonga Nomvethe scored twice in the second half to give South Africa a 2-0 victory against minnows Benin in an African Cup of Nations Group D match played in Sfax on Tuesday. Benin belied their minnow status by taking the game to the South Africans and should have received a penalty midway through the first half.
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/ 26 January 2004
Placard-carrying sympathisers of popular tabloid columnist Roy Clarke and government supporters clashed outside Lusaka’s High Court on Monday as Clarke appeared in a case in which he is contesting a government deportation order. Additional police had to be posted throughout the court grounds.
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/ 26 January 2004
The provisional Gauteng province list for South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance has placed front-benchers in the National Assembly, including shadow finance minister Raenette Taljaard, too low to be re-elected. DA leader Tony Leon is at the top of the list, with Gauteng leader Ian Davidson at number two.
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/ 26 January 2004
Digital online music sales are taking off, boosted by the runaway success of Apple Computer’s iTunes launched last year, so the question is, who of the many new competitors will snare the market? Since its launch in the United States last April, iTunes has sold more than 30-million songs.
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/ 26 January 2004
Nigeria’s government and trade unions took their battle over a controversial fuel tax back to court on Monday, five days after labour leaders suspended plans to launch a crippling general strike over the levy. The case has become a key battle for President Olusegun Obasanjo as he strives to push through wide-ranging economic reforms.
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/ 26 January 2004
The World Health Organisation said on Monday it is rushing gowns and masks to Vietnam to prevent further transmission of bird flu to humans, as it struggles to gauge the scope of infection across the country. The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has killed at least six people in Vietnam.
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/ 26 January 2004
Dealing with the medical-aid industry use to be a science, now it’s an art, says Medihelp’s CEO Anton Rijnen, referring to the juggling act of trying to guess annual increases. There are reportedly seven million members of medical aids, but that number is said to be declining because of the lack of affordability.
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