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/ 3 February 2004
Financially stricken Leeds United have held on to Australian striker Mark Viduka and England international goalkeeper Paul Robinson as the transfer window closed with the star pair still at Elland Road. Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren was believed to have offered £4-million for the 28-year-old Viduka.
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/ 3 February 2004
South African midfielder Macbeth Sibaya has retired from international football ahead of his country’s final group game at the African Cup of Nations, team officials announced on Monday. Sibaya, who plays his club football for Rubin Kazan in the Russian league, returned to South Africa last week after his brother died.
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/ 3 February 2004
Striker Dennis Oliech celebrated his 19th birthday on Monday with an outstanding performance as Kenya won their first-ever African Cup of Nations match with a 3-0 romp over Burkina Faso. Kenya’s win ended Burkina Faso’s slim hopes of reaching the quarterfinals.
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/ 3 February 2004
South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen has criticised Morne du Plessis, who resigned from the board of SA Rugby on Monday. Van Rooyen said Du Plessis was elected to serve on the board and should have spoken out at last weekend’s rugby bosberaad in Johannesburg.
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/ 2 February 2004
Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, whose touring show of flayed human bodies has shocked Germany, has offered a large sum to giant Alexander Sizonenko, the world’s biggest man, a newspaper reported on Monday. The former Russian basketball player is 2,48m tall and weighs 200kg.
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/ 2 February 2004
Malawi has launched a fishing project that will benefit more than 300 000 people who depend on fishing for their livelihood. The project, which was launched on January 24, is expected to improve fish stocks as well as catches from Lake Malawi. Declining fish stocks has raised alarm that Lake Malawi could be affected.
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/ 2 February 2004
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a newspaper on Monday he plans to dismantle 17 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip without waiting for a peace deal with the Palestinians — his most detailed comment yet on the removal of settlements.
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/ 2 February 2004
The defection of senior United Democratic Movement official Kingsley Masemola to the African National Congress was prompted by financial considerations, his former political masters said on Monday. They said Masemola, former UDM national chairperson, was still to account for "questionable cheques" he had signed.
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/ 2 February 2004
With a nervous eye on land invasions in Zimbabwe to the north, South African farmers have taken fright at legal changes to boost their government’s land expropriation powers. But legal experts say the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill pose little reason for real concern.