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/ 7 November 2003
The SA Sports Commission has prepared a malaria warning to all its team-members who competed in the recent All Africa Games in Nigeria after the death of assistant national handball team manager Mthandazo Miya on Thursday.
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/ 7 November 2003
South Africa appears poised to forge bigger and closer trade ties with Brazil, a country with an economy ranked among the world’s top 10, and the second largest in the Americas.
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/ 6 November 2003
The world knows them as the Boeremag, the rightwingers accused of wanting to assassinate Nelson Mandela and chase 30-million black people up the N1 to Zimbabwe. But they are also the husbands, sons, brothers and friends of people who believe in them and love them.
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/ 6 November 2003
The "Coalition for Change" — the Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party — is going to be the black alternative to the ruling African National Congress, say officials of the opposition parties. One could count on one’s fingers the number of white faces at the rally on Sunday in Soweto where the coalition was launched.
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/ 6 November 2003
Seven days is how much time South Africa has to impress the Fifa inspectors; seven years is how much time the country will have to prepare to host the World Cup soccer tournament if they can clinch the 24 Fifa member votes in six months time in Zurich.
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/ 6 November 2003
Seven people were executed by firing squad early on Thursday in the Chadian capital Ndjamena in the first application of capital punishment in the desert country since 1991.
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/ 6 November 2003
A report on the Saulspoort bus tragedy, released on Thursday, stated that brakes were defective on at least three of the disaster bus’s wheels. Free State MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo released the report, compiled by a Pretoria company specialising in such investigations.
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/ 6 November 2003
The larger-than-expected 150 basis points cut in the repo rate announced on October 16 is likely to spur South Africa’s consumer into buying more interest-rate sensitive durable goods. This is already reflected in the October new car sales, which rose by 20,2% y/y after a 0,5% y/y decline in the first half.
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/ 6 November 2003
A new Californian law could mark the first step toward increasing access to medication that many Aids experts believe can prevent HIV infection.