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/ 11 October 2003
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
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
The SA Revenue Service confirmed on Friday it had asked Justice Minister Penuell Maduna to intervene in the controversial liquidation of the Retail Apparel Group (Rag). Commissioner Pravin Gordhan said SARS believed it had a valid tax claim on the spoils of the Rag estate.
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/ 10 October 2003
South Africa’s gold mining companies have to explain more clearly and convincingly why the stronger rand obliges them to retrench workers, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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/ 10 October 2003
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
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu said on Friday he would not give reports related to alleged irregularities in the provincial health department to Democratic Alliance MPL Clive Hatch.
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/ 10 October 2003
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.
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/ 10 October 2003
The Craig David phenomenon is a funny one. On the one hand, he’s a shining beacon of authenticity in a sea of schlock pop created by middle-aged men. Yet, on the other hand, when he launched his solo career, with Fill Me In and Seven Days (both UK number ones), it was pretty cheesy. Zoe Williams contemplates Craig.
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/ 10 October 2003
Six Palestinians were killed in a massive Israeli raid in southern Gaza, hospital sources said on Friday, as question marks still hung over the future of Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei amid reports he wants to quit.