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/ 9 September 2003
Manchester United have confirmed that chief executive Peter Kenyon had left for Premiership rivals Chelsea and had been replaced by David Gill. Kenyon becomes the latest arrival at Chelsea following the takeover of the club by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
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/ 9 September 2003
British formula one teams McLaren and Williams have held a secret meeting with motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, in an attempt to find a solution to what they regard as new tyre rule changes, which they fear will hand Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher a record sixth title.
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Six World Cup veterans were named Monday to the United States squad for next month’s Rugby World Cup, including captain Dave Hodges. The Eagles will be making their second World Cup appearance next month in Australia.
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/ 9 September 2003
The staging of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa would contribute over R20-billion to the country’s gross domestic product with about 160 000 new employment opportunities being created, says Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour.
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/ 8 September 2003
Burundi’s two Hutu rebel movements are engaged in clashes near the capital of the tiny Central African country. The army confirmed that the National Liberation Forces prevailed in the fighting over the Forces for the Defense of Democracy, the first between the two rebel groups since 1996.
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/ 8 September 2003
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is to sue both City Press and former transport minister Mac Maharaj over allegations that he had spied for the apartheid government.
Maharaj backs Ngcuka spy claim
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/ 8 September 2003
South Africa on Monday noted with grave concern the resignation of Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas and called on Israel and the international community to refrain from driving wedges between the Palestinian president and the prime minister.
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/ 8 September 2003
Assuming the world’s least-developed countries will be able to come up with the resources to pay for and conserve fragile ecosystems is not sensible. This is the opinion of Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa, who spoke at a briefing ahead of the opening of the fifth World Parks Congress.
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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu needs to substantiate his allegations against the media, the National Press Club in Pretoria said on Monday in reaction to a Sunday newspaper advertisement in which Mahlangu lambasted the media.
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