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/ 22 September 2003
Namibia took a World Cup blow on Monday when four of their squad playing professionally in South Africa withdrew from their trip Down Under. Hooker Hugo Horn, prop Jane du Toit, lock Johannes Theron and fullback Lean van Dyk have been replaced by lock Shaun van Rooi, prop Andries Blaauw, hooker Phillipus Isaacs and fullback Vincent Dreyer.
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/ 22 September 2003
Ireland have extended head coach Eddie O’Sullivan’s contract to 2008. ‘Sullivan, appointed in November 2001 for a two-and-a-half-year period to the end of the 2004 Six Nations championship, will carry on for a further four years.
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/ 22 September 2003
France utility back Xavier Garbajosa is doubtful for the Rugby World Cup with a suspected torn thigh muscle. The French coaching staff said the 26-year-old, switched from outside centre to right wing this season, would undergo a scan to assess the extent of the injury.
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/ 21 September 2003
Area commissioner for Soweto Nkanyiso Maphanga last week told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> that the police are investigating allegations that Dobsonville gangster Bhekizitha Nxumalo (20), who is better known as "Nkwenkwe", was supplied with a police-issue bullet-proof vest and ammunition by corrupt police members.
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/ 21 September 2003
Commenting on Jo’burg Water’s Operation Gcin’amanzi, Roger Ronnie constructs his argument on the fallacious premise that the cost of water in Soweto "is almost eight times more than what those in Sandton pay for the same amount of water". Unfortunately, where he gets this erroneous information from is not stated.
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/ 21 September 2003
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) on Sunday called for an investigation into all former spies of the apartheid government. PAC president Motsoko Pheko said it was inconsistent to probe only one person for allegations of being a former spy, but cover up for others.
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/ 21 September 2003
The Media Workers Association of South Africa and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union on Saturday rejected an SABC offer of a pay increase of 8,25%. They believe their demand of an increase of 11% plus a R200 improvement on their housing benefit is fair and affordable.
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/ 21 September 2003
About 8 000 doctors, researchers, policymakers and grassroots campaigners gathered in Nairobi on Sunday for a council of war on Africa’s battle against Aids, a combat characterised by a relentlessly spreading pandemic but also by some good news at last about funds and access to drugs.
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/ 21 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s vice-president, Simon Muzenda, has died, President Robert Mugabe announced in a speech broadcast on state radio. Muzenda was one of two vice presidents in the southern African country and a vanguard of Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.