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/ 7 February 2003
The investigative noose is tightening around Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Mail & Guardian can reveal.
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/ 7 February 2003
Locals in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, believe that in a few years’ time cricket might be more popular than their favourite sport — soccer.
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/ 7 February 2003
South Africa’s gold industry has given the 2003 Cricket World Cup even more glitter. The country’s main gold producing companies — all members of the Chamber of Mines -– donated 54 single ounce 24-carat gold medallions for the toss of each game in the World Cup and 54 solid gold watches for the man of the match award.
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/ 7 February 2003
Australia speed king Brett Lee believes his international career has been prolonged because he stopped drinking beer.
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/ 7 February 2003
An umbrella group for journalists on Thursday accused international cricket chiefs of ignoring what it called a pattern of violence against media and attempts by President Robert Mugabe’s regime to gag sports reporters who cover the World Cup cricket competition.
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/ 7 February 2003
More than a thousand million people are expected to watch at least some World Cup cricket on television. More than 600-million are likely to watch the action for hours on end.
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/ 7 February 2003
One of South Africa’s most senior judges will today hear the England and Wales Cricket Board’s appeal to get England’s controversial match with Zimbabwe switched to South Africa and avoid a damaging boycott on the eve of the World Cup.
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/ 7 February 2003
Australia’s World Cup squad attempted to make peace with South African fans on Friday, saying the team’s confidence was often mistaken as arrogance.
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/ 7 February 2003
He wouldn’t want to acknowledge this publicly, but the most anxious person at Newlands this weekend will be groundsman Christo Erasmus.
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/ 7 February 2003
There is no reason at all to believe that South Africa will have a soft opening match as the 2003 World Cup gets underway at Newlands on Sunday. If anything, the South Africans might not have found a more awkward game to start their campaign if they’d asked for one.