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/ 6 February 2003
France’s South African-born Test prop Pieter De Villiers has tested positive for cocaine and ecstasy, l’Equipe sports daily reported on Wednesday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Glen McGrath seems to have shaken off his back injury as easily as shaking off a cold.
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/ 6 February 2003
Former South African president Nelson Mandela stepped into the debate over England’s World Cup cricket game in Zimbabwe on Wednesday by saying the game should go ahead in Harare and not be moved to South Africa.
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/ 6 February 2003
The warm-up game against Western Province on Saturday should have been a walkover for a team expected to make the finals of the World Cup, if not win it. But the walkover went the other way, which does not bode well for next week.
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/ 6 February 2003
New Zealand came through their opening World Cup warm-up match at Benoni’s Willowmoore Park Tuesday ”pretty happy altogether” with their performance after scoring a 78-run win over South African four-day champions Easterns.
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/ 6 February 2003
There was a reverent hush in the UN Security Council chamber as members gathered to hear the weapons inspectors’ reports on Iraq. Outside, protesters waved placards insisting ”No blood for oil”. Inside there was a more tempered atmosphere.
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/ 5 February 2003
The six-hour hostage drama at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg appeared to be over at 4.10pm on Wednesday when police were seen leading the handcuffed hostage-taker out of Senate House.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.