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/ 31 October 2003
With a smile, President Thabo Mbeki put his job on the line on Friday in an effort to secure the 2010 Soccer World Cup tournament for South Africa. He, Deputy President Jacob Zuma and a number of Cabinet ministers had just met a five-man team of inspectors sent by the International Football Federation to assess the country’s ability to host the event.
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/ 31 October 2003
The Ekurhuleni branches of the Democratic Alliance and the African National Congress are at loggerheads over ANC stalwart Robert McBride’s appointment as chief of the Ekurhuleni metro police. His appointment was announced on Thursday, drawing immediate criticism.
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/ 31 October 2003
Maxim Vengerov was appointed Unicef Honorary Envoy for Music in 1997 at the age of 23. Today the 28-year-old travels the world drawing attention to the plight of children in troubled areas. The acclaimed violinist speaks to pianist Ingrid Hedlund.
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/ 31 October 2003
This week African National Congress provincial structures wrapped up their selection of candidates for next year’s general elections. Jaspreet Kindra looks at the ANC provincial lists and the names being mentioned in the organisation’s ranks as likely candidates to head the provinces.
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/ 31 October 2003
I’ve always hated Darrel Bristow-Bovey. Once, I too would get Mondi Award nominations. Once, I was a young man with aspirations to be the next Barry Ronge. Except, obviously, with more luck with the girls. Then along came Mr Four Times in a Bloody Row Mondi Winner, Mr Lifetime Achievement Award. And now, I work on the Internet, whinges Chris Roper.
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/ 31 October 2003
Capetonian Dawn Garisch is the author of <i>Babyshoes</i> (Simon & Schuster), a novel for teenagers. It’s about 18-year-old David, out of school at last and planning new adventures. But he gets more adventure than he bargained for when his mother abandons him and his half-brother and the two of them run away from home.
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/ 31 October 2003
If social transformation is to succeed in South Africa, it cannot allow itself to be a prisoner to ”neo-liberal market ideology”, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. In his weekly newsletter, published on the African National Congress’ website, the president said calls within the country and on the continent to oppose this ideology were ”practical and rational”.
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/ 31 October 2003
South Africa’s internationally acclaimed wine industry could undergo significant changes in the future. A two-day black economic empowerment conference, which began in Cape Town on Friday, is expected to thrash out a black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the sector.
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/ 31 October 2003
The Transvaal Agricultural Union was implicated in the Pretoria High Court on Friday in a plot by the right-wing Boeremag to overthrow the government. TAU representatives and alleged coup plot leaders discussed the takeover at a meeting in Centurion in August 2001, police informer Johannes Coenraad Smit testified.
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/ 31 October 2003
Cool conditions with a chance of some soft showers is the forecast for Saturday when the Sharks and Blue Bulls’ Currie Cup clash takes place at Loftus Versveld in Pretoria, a SA Weather Service spokesperson said on Friday.