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/ 9 October 2003

Aborigines plan World Cup protests

Australian Aborigines and refugee groups have announced plans to protest outside Rugby World Cup grounds, comparing themselves with anti-apartheid demonstrators who dogged tours by South Africa’s Springboks in the 1970s. They plan to line the streets to protest the government’s policy of locking up asylum seekers.

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/ 9 October 2003

Bafana Bafana’s easy win over Lesotho

Bafana Bafana scored an easy 3-0 win over Lesotho in a friendly international played at the Sethoto stadium in Maseru on Wednesday. Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba was all smiles after his charges outclassed Lesotho, who were using the match to prepare for their World Cup eliminator against Botswana in Gaborone.

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/ 9 October 2003

SA confident of squaring with Pakistan

South African captain Graeme Smith said his side is confident about squaring the one-day series against Pakistan in Friday’s fourth game in the five-match series. The tourists go into Friday’s match at Rawalpindi down 1-2, with the final match in the series on Sunday also to be played in the city.

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/ 8 October 2003

SA museums receive cash boost

The South African Department of Public Works is to spend millions of rands this year to upgrade various museums around the country, including the renovation of the Kruger House museum in central Pretoria. More than R20-million is also to be spent on the harbour at the Robben Island museum complex.

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/ 8 October 2003

Court halts govt taxi project

The Pretoria High Court has granted an urgent interdict to stop the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the government and the South African National Taxi Council on the taxi recapitalisation programme barely 40 minutes before the signing ceremony was to take place at 3pm on Wednesday.

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/ 8 October 2003

‘Real life is not satire’

The African National Congress reacted sharply on Wednesday to comments made by satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys. According to a newspaper report, Uys called President Thabo Mbeki a liar and called for the president’s resignation over his views on the causes of Aids, but the ANC criticised Uys’s "grandiose posturing".