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/ 22 September 2003
Another South African journalist is in hot water over allegations of plagiarism, this time the editor of the South African edition of glamour magazine Elle, Cynthia Vongai. Sunday also saw the final appearance in print of Darrel Bristow-Bovey, who earlier this year faced accusations of plagiarism.
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/ 22 September 2003
Up to half of Malawi’s professional workforce could die of HIV/Aids by 2005, the World Bank has said in a report timed to coincide with the opening of a major conference in Kenya on the pandemic in Africa. An estimated one million Malawians are living with HIV, out of a total population of 11-million.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has expressed concern at newspaper reports that Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had announced that anti-retroviral drugs would not be distributed this year. ”I have no idea when the long-awaited roll-out will begin,” she reportedly said.
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/ 22 September 2003
Given the column inches and air time devoted to it in this country you could be forgiven for believing that the only matches that count at RWC 2003 are the inevitable pool encounter between South Africa and England and the (almost equally inevitable) quarterfinal between South Africa and New Zealand. But there are 17 other teams at the fifth edition of the World Cup…
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/ 22 September 2003
Wesley Moodie has become the new hero of South Africa’s Davis Cup team after beating Frederik Fetterlein in their Euro/Africa Group One promotion/relegation tie in Denmark. His victory moves South Africa back into Group One of the competition after two years of languishing in its lower echelons.
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/ 22 September 2003
What do you do with your money if you are the richest man in the world? Go to Africa and find a cure for a killer disease, Bill Gates decided on Sunday. The founder of Microsoft travelled to rural Mozambique to announce the donation of £100-million to fight malaria, ushering in what some call a new era of philanthropy.
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/ 22 September 2003
Kaizer Chiefs moved to the top of the Castle Premiership after they scored a hard fought 1-0 win over Ajax Cape Town at Ellis Park on Sunday. The match lived up to its top-of-the table label with both sides giving the 30 000 crowd more than their money’s worth.
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/ 22 September 2003
An extra-time strike from Santos’ Marawaan Bantam gave his side a 2-1 win over Black Leopards in a Castle PSL match played at the Athlone stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. Santos were forced to play the whole of the second half with 10 men after Kamaal Sait was red-carded in the first stanza.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Uefa Champions League has begun and with it the resumption of the battle between Italy and Spain for global supremacy. It might not quite be England-Turkey, but they are starting really to dislike each other, these two. The Spaniards’ dislike of Italian football is so intense it has acquired a quality of moral outrage.
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/ 22 September 2003
Pakistan on Monday threatened to sue South Africa for ,5-million in losses from their cricket tour cancellation, unless the International Cricket Council intervened to force a rethink by the Proteas. The Pakistan Cricket Board estimates it will lose this amount in sponsorship and television rights.
Tour to Pakistan called off