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/ 23 September 2003
Ireland centre Jonny Bell on Monday was forced to pull out of next month’s Rugby World Cup with an Achilles tendon injury. The 29-year-old Ulsterman’s career has been beset with problems since his first cap in Australia in 1994, with this latest setback occurring during a training session.
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/ 23 September 2003
Pakistan cricket officials have voiced hope that South Africa would reschedule their cricket tour called off over security fears in Karachi last week. A meeting of the South African Cricket management committee has been called to discuss a revised Pakistan tour schedule that scraps matches in Karachi and Peshawar.
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/ 23 September 2003
Only one match will be played in Johannesburg in the initial stages of the 2003 Coca Cola Cup soccer competition to be played in the first two weeks of October. Premier Soccer League boss Trevor Phillips said the Coca Cola Cup, which Jomo Cosmos won last season, would be much more competitive this year.
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/ 22 September 2003
As the government works out how to provide anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to people infected with HIV/Aids, health professionals are putting forward a strong case for combining HIV programmes and those dealing with tuberculosis (TB). In South Africa more than half of all TB patients are also infected with HIV/Aids.
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/ 22 September 2003
Pupils are held up at gun point during their lunch break at school. A girl has a broken bottle held to her throat in the corridor. Pupils cannot flush toilets because the ablution facilities are so blocked that the floor is already covered in an inch of sewage. This is the daily reality for pupils at Johannesburg Secondary School in Mayfair.
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/ 22 September 2003
At a youth forum in Johannesburg, attended by former president Nelson Mandela, Microsoft chairperson Bill Gates said that if the history of Aids was written 40 or 50 years from now, people would say the world at large did not react to the disease as fast as it should have.
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/ 22 September 2003
A political settlement between Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) looks headed for a major breakthrough following an agreement by the two parties to draft a new constitution that would make way for a transitional government, says MDC spokesperson Paul Themba-Nyathi.
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/ 22 September 2003
The police has made great strides in reducing serious crime levels, although certain categories of crime have increased, says National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Since 1994, murder has now dropped by 29,5% and there is a decrease in high profile cases of aggravated robbery.
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/ 22 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki offered his condolences to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on Monday following the death of that country’s vice-president, Simon Muzenda. Muzanda passed away on Saturday following a long illness.