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/ 18 January 2004
An unidentified person burned to death and 1 500 shacks were destroyed in a fire in the Was-‘n-bietjie and New Town informal settlements in Lwandle near the Strand, Western Cape police said on Sunday morning. Captain Eugene Sitzer said the fire broke out at about 3.40am on Sunday morning.
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/ 18 January 2004
While fans speculate whether defending champion Andre Agassi can win his ninth Grand Slam or Venus Williams can rebound from injury, another story has cast a shadow on the Australian Open. Greg Rusedski’s announcement two weeks ago that he tested positive for nandrolone last July has thrown a shock into the sport.
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/ 18 January 2004
Cricket chiefs on Saturday opened up a new front in the war on match-fixing — by teaming up with an online betting firm. The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption and Security Unit signed a memorandum of understanding with betting exchange company Betfair.
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/ 18 January 2004
A Swiss double-amputee and 35 other ultra-distance cyclists started off from the Giza pyramids on Saturday on the second Cairo-to-Cape 10 000km cycling race. The 120-day race follows a route that zigzags through Egypt, Sudan and eight countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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/ 18 January 2004
Former champion Jutta Kleinschmidt of Germany won the car section as defending motorbike champion Richard Sainct was the first in his category to reach Dakar after the 191km 16th and penultimate stage of the Dakar Rally from Nouakchott, Mauritania, to Dakar on Saturday.
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/ 18 January 2004
South Africa delighted a good crowd by winning the first men’s hockey Test played at Hartleyvale in Cape Town in an otherwise undistinguished match on Saturday. Belgium elected to play with a strong south-easterly wind at their backs. Greg Nicol opened the scoring in the sixth minute with a low flick.
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/ 18 January 2004
The tables turned completely when Orlando Pirates narrowly escaped defeat by edging ahead of Zulu Royals 4-3 in an entertaining Castle Premiership game at Kings Park Soccer Stadium on Saturday. Earlier in the match Bucs, under veteran coach Augusto Palacious, led 2-0.
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/ 18 January 2004
Belgium turned the tables 2-1 on South Africa in the second men’s hockey Test at Hartleyvale on Sunday. Both teams played with urgency in a match fraught with controversy. The wind continued to blow, and both sides used the overhead ball liberally.
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/ 17 January 2004
The World Health Organisation confirmed on Saturday that a fourth person has died from bird flu in Vietnam and warned that a growing number of people are falling sick with respiratory illnesses. The outbreak has sparked an Asia-wide health scare and Vietnam has ordered the slaughter of more chickens.
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/ 17 January 2004
President Thabo Mbeki has declared parts of six drought-stricken provinces in the country disaster areas, the Department of Provincial and Local Government said on Friday. The disaster areas are in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, the North West, the Free State and the Northern Cape.