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/ 25 October 2003
After the bravery of the Georgians against South Africa the night before, Namibia simply ran up the white flag against Australia on Saturday. Amid pedantic refereeing and long injury breaks, the Aussies broke several World Cup and Australian records with their 142-0 win.
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/ 25 October 2003
Coach Rudolf Straeuli is demanding better ball retention and more aggression from his forwards in winning ruck ball when South Africa take on Samoa in their final Rugby World Cup pool game Brisbane next Saturday. There was an air of disappointment among the Springboks over their performance against Georgia on Friday.
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/ 25 October 2003
An Australian second-string XV brushed aside African minnows Namibia 142-0 in Adelaide on Saturday with a 22-try display that would have been stopped at half-time had it been a boxing match. Australia scored the biggest winning margin to date in World Cup history and rewrote most of their own national records.
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/ 24 October 2003
A court in Zimbabwe said on Friday the country’s only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, which was shut down last month by the government, must be given a licence to operate. The court ruled that the controversial government media commission had been ”improperly constituted”.
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/ 24 October 2003
Police in Zimbabwe have released 78 civil rights protestors arrested earlier this week for demonstrating for a new Constitution, a rights group official said on Friday.
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/ 24 October 2003
The SA Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Friday handed over a memorandum of demands to Shoprite Checkers management, requesting they meet the union’s demands within 48 hours. If the demands are not met, the union says it will intensify its strike.
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/ 24 October 2003
The country’s intelligence community took a hard line on Friday in response to the requested disclosure of their files to the Hefer Commission. Advocate George Bizos, SC, said the various agencies were ”appalled” by the ”dropping” of an NIA name in testimony before the commission.
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/ 24 October 2003
Ousmane Sembene, now in his late 70s, is modest enough not to take particularly kindly to being dubbed ”the father of the African cinema”. He says there are many other pioneers who, though lesser known, deserve to be recognised. But whether he likes it or not, he is the African filmmaker the West acknowledges above all others, writes Derek Malcom.
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/ 24 October 2003
Twenty-eight commuters and the driver were injured when a train overshot Platform 8 at Cape Town station on Friday. The accident happened when the sixth train carrying morning commuters from Wellington overshot the platform shortly after 8am.