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/ 6 November 2003
South Africa are plotting another World Cup ambush of New Zealand as tension builds ahead of their seismic quarter-final showdown in Melbourne on Saturday. The Springboks announced their team on Thursday, making only one change as expected, with powerful loose forward Danie Rossouw replacing injured flanker Joe van Niekerk.
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/ 6 November 2003
Absa bank has embarked on a campaign to integrate its brand with a culture of community involvement in all its divisions. The campaign is called “I am Absa and proud of it”.
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/ 6 November 2003
He always said he wanted a place among the stars of Italy’s Serie A. Yesterday he got it. Saadi al-Gadaffi’s name was up there alongside Jaap Stam of Lazio and Edgar Davids of Juventus. Unfortunately for the sporting son of Libya’s leader, his sole similarity with the others was that he too had tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.
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/ 6 November 2003
For a team on the cusp of a record 11 consecutive wins in the Rugby World Cup, Australia is facing an extraordinary backlash ahead of Saturday’s quarterfinal showdown with Scotland.
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/ 5 November 2003
The state has forfeited its right to appeal against the quashing of certain charges — of conspiring to murder people abroad — against apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
It has not been a good week for press freedom in Africa: three journalists in Morocco have been given jail sentences; an Algerian court has handed down sentences to a journalist and an editor, and an AFP reporter in Equatorial Guinea has been detained.
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/ 5 November 2003
It would be a macabre exercise, but if anyone were ever to compile a league table of political assassins, ranked solely by success in achieving their goals, there is no doubt who would come out on top. It would surely be Yigal Amir, the Jewish extremist who murdered Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin eight years ago on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
Syria has called on the United States to pull its troops out of Iraq, saying their presence has led to chaos and terrorism. ”When America entered Iraq, there was no terrorism problem. Now, there is the problem of terrorism and of al-Qaeda,” Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bushra Kanafani said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
For months, 13-year-old Percilia wandered the streets of Maputo, surviving off scraps of food she begged from strangers or salvaged from garbage cans. Like thousands of other children here, Percilia and her young sister were left to fend for themselves when their parents and older sister died of Aids-related complications.
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/ 5 November 2003
The United Nations World Food Programme needs more donations, or 6,5-million people would face severe hunger at the most critical time of year. ”Unless WFP receives immediate donations, people will face severe hunger,” Mike Sackett, WFP regional director for southern Africa said on Tuesday.