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/ 11 October 2003

All Blacks trounce Italy

New Zealand got their World Cup campaign off to an expected winning start with a 70-7 Pool D win over Italy under the Docklands Stadium roof on Saturday. But despite running in 11 tries, New Zealand saw first choice goalkicker Carlos Spencer miss three out of four place kicks.

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/ 10 October 2003

Rare rabbits found near Touwsrivier

Conservationists are hopping with joy at the discovery of a population of the Cape’s critically endangered riverine rabbit well outside its previously known range. There have been several sightings of the mammal on the privately-owned Bijstein nature reserve in the Touwsrivier district about 150 km north-east of Cape Town.

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/ 10 October 2003

SA churches shocked by Vatican condom message

The South African Council of Churches (SACC) was ”shocked and disgusted” by a call by the Vatican to HIV sufferers around the globe not to use condoms. Father Joe Mdhlela, an Anglican priest representing the SACC, which represents all South Africa’s mainstream churches, including the Roman Catholic church, said Catholicism was failing to take the realities of the world into consideration.

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/ 10 October 2003

The old and the new

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Hollywood Homicide is intensely self-regarding, as the title hints. It is as much of an incestuous Los Angeles movie as, say, Steven Soderbergh’s essay on the movie industry, Full Frontal, or David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, though it, being mainstream big-budget ”product”, of course tries to hide that fact, writes Shaun de Waal.