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/ 4 November 2003

Making business pleasure

Taking extra-special care of your executives while they’re away from home is not just the priority of South Africa’s corporations and companies — it’s becoming a focal point of many smaller establishments, which pride themselves on being able to offer first-class service to businessmen and women on the move. A Houghton guest house is making a name for itself in the corporate jungle.

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/ 4 November 2003

Going bunkers

There’s more ot golf resorts than pitching wedges and nine-irons. You don’t have to be a golfer to appreciate the benefits of visiting a golf resort. Indeed, some of the best resorts and estates in South Africa are also top destinations for non-golfers.

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/ 4 November 2003

A local airline goes international

Domestic airline Nationwide Air has officially launched its first international route on the most popular route in Africa — Johannesburg to London. At a packed auditorium at the Melrose Arch Hotel, Nationwide MD Chris Hoare unveiled the carrier’s latest addition — a Boeing 767-300ER wide-bodied jet — bought from Air Canada.

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/ 4 November 2003

Your African dream

Sun International’s new tour operator, Sun International Dreams, is enjoying great success since its launch in April this year. It was created to provide a slick marketing arm and a one-stop reservation call centre, where the consumer can purchase the full package inclusive of air tickets and tours — primarily to the two resorts at the Victoria Falls in Zambia: the Zambezi Sun and the Royal Livingstone.

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/ 4 November 2003

Legends are made of this

From the entrance gates to the port cochère, the rolling green lawns to the manicured fairways and the immaculate rooms to the luxuriant lounges, Fancourt waxes lyrical in its loveliness. There is so much more to Fancourt than golf, writes Sharon van Wyk.

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/ 4 November 2003

Bush vows US will never run from Iraq

President George Bush on Monday vowed the United States would ”never run” from its ”vital” mission in Iraq, in the wake of a missile attack on a US army helicopter that killed 16 soldiers and wounded 21. The attack near the Sunni nationalist stronghold of Falluja was the worst day for the US military since March, bringing home the strength of anti-American forces in Iraq.

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/ 4 November 2003

Israel learns of a hidden shame

For 54 years the fate of a young Bedouin girl who disappeared in the Negev desert was relegated to rumour and a single entry in the diary of David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of the fledgling Israeli state. ”It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her,” he wrote.