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/ 8 February 2003
Ricky Ponting’s all-conquering Australia are overwhelming favourites to become the first team to successfully defend the cricket World Cup title, according to bookmakers Ladbrokes.
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/ 8 February 2003
The outcome of the appeal by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) against the International Cricket Council’s ruling that it must play its February 13 World Cup match in Zimbabwe is to be announced in Cape Town on Friday night.
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/ 8 February 2003
England should honour its World Cup fixtures in Zimbabwe, Judge Albie Sachs decided on Friday night. The England and Wales Cricket Board had appealed against a decision on Thursday by the ICC Events Technical Committee not to have their fixtures moved from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
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/ 8 February 2003
For all Shaun Pollock’s pedigree as a cricketer -– a pedigree that has provided him with an instinctive, effortless grasp of almost every aspect of the game –- he has never quite settled the debate that sometimes asks whether he really is the best person to captain South Africa.
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/ 7 February 2003
Two National Party politicians facing criminal investigation over alleged golf estate kickbacks today welcomed a raid on their homes by the Scorpions.
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/ 7 February 2003
Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki has described Ethiopia as the ”spoilt child of the world’s superpowers”.
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/ 7 February 2003
A wild Siberian tiger was photographed in northeastern China last week for the first time, a conservation group said -– an indication that the increasingly rare beasts are tentatively returning to areas they once roamed years ago.
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/ 7 February 2003
The US government on Thursday donated 30 000 tons of non-genetically modified sorghum and bulgur wheat to Zambia, struggling to cope with widespread food shortages.
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/ 7 February 2003
Reformed gangster Rashied Staggie was jailed for an effective 15 years on Friday for kidnapping and gang raping a teenage girl as her punishment for being a police informant.
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/ 7 February 2003
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has become a human security and governance issue no less destructive than warfare itself, according to a new project aimed at exploring the impact of the disease on security in Southern Africa.