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/ 5 November 2003
South Africa’s four-man amateur golf team face a stern test of their abilities when they do battle with favourites Australia on the opening day of the third bi-annual Southern Cross Cup tournament at Humewood Golf Course on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
Zimbabwe’s cricketers on Tuesday put up a gritty display against the fast bowling battery of West Indies on the first day of their first test at the Harare Sports Club, securing 284-6 at close of play.
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/ 5 November 2003
All Blacks coach John Mitchell opted against risking injured centre Tana Umaga for Saturday’s rugby World Cup quarterfinal against South Africa. Mitchell retained Leon MacDonald at outside centre and left vice-captain Umaga out of the 22-man New Zealand squad he announced on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
The popular notion that mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder are the preserve of affluent, predominantly white suburban residents is as far removed from the facts as it is to assume that every outlying village is a haven of idyllic tranquillity.
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/ 5 November 2003
The bulldozers were back in District Six last Tuesday, but this time it was to build, not destroy, and this time Noor Ebrahim was happy to see them. Three decades ago they rolled into his neighbourhood to erase a multiracial community that was an affront to apartheid, levelling houses, shops and cinemas to make way for a whites-only enclave.
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/ 5 November 2003
A potent brew of laundered money and northern Europeans seeking houses in the sun risks pushing Spain’s Costa del Sol, on its south eastern shores and which is in the throes of a construction boom, into the control of organised criminal gangs, a university report has warned.
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/ 5 November 2003
An 11km dam is being built across a small northern section of the shrunken Aral Sea in Central Asia, which is described as the world’s worst environmental disaster.
The saline inland sea been drying out for 25 years since the former Soviet Union began a vast irrigation scheme drawing water from its two tributary rivers to grow cotton and rice in the desert.
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/ 4 November 2003
A group of men allegedly planning a right-wing take-over of the government were given noms de guerre and military ranks and had to take an oath of loyalty, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday. At meetings, the men also recited a rewritten version of the Blood River Covenant.
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/ 4 November 2003
Testimony by journalist Ranjeni Munusamy before the Hefer Commission will be inadmissible hearsay evidence, the Bloemfontein High Court heard on Tuesday. ”All her evidence would be second hand, and maybe even third or fourth hand,” advocate John Campbell, for Munusamy, argued.