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/ 17 September 2004
Many liberal white South Africans are suffering identity crises. After 10 years of democracy they are asking themselves whether they’ve come through the rigours of transformation with their principles intact. Answer these 14 questions honestly and see where you stand.
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/ 17 September 2004
"Like many people in black business, I cannot help but suspect that the attempt by Transnet CEO Maria Ramos to present evidence of her predecessors’ incompetence is little more than an attempt to create a compelling rationale for the public to support sweeping changes at the transport and logistics company." The Transnet CEO manufactured a problem so she could get rid of the former board, argues Duma Gqubule.
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/ 17 September 2004
The United Nations Security Council has approved the extension of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea for another six months, but expressed concern over the lack of progress in efforts to resolve the dispute on the demarcation of the border between the two countries. The council also approved Secretary General Kofi Annan’s recommendation that the mission be scaled down.
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/ 17 September 2004
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, facing a general election on October 9, has been one of United States President George W Bush’s most reliable allies in the "war on terror". But the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, last Thursday by a radical Islamic group potentially makes Howard’s loyalty to the US a political liability, as his political opponents accuse him of neglecting Australia’s security.
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/ 17 September 2004
Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and corn was yellow. Or, if yours was an upbringing blessedly free of musicals, try to remember being little enough to have had an eternally stubbed toe and only scabby brake-pads for knees. Try to remember having jam on your forehead and burrs in your hair.
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/ 17 September 2004
A high-fashion range of South African-produced gold jewellery is to hit the United States market this month, amid hopes that demand will rapidly outstrip the initial 160kg order. The venture is in line with the government’s call for more local beneficiation of precious metals, and should give an off-season fillip to South Africa’s gold jewellery industry.
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/ 17 September 2004
Not surprisingly for a competition forced by its pool structure to go through the motions for a week, relevant cricket has been thin on the ground at the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy. The predicted poor turnouts and disconsolate weather have materialised, but where there’s a deadline there’s a headline, and frostbitten captains have been herded into press conferences to shrug and grumble about this and that.
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/ 17 September 2004
Okay, you crazed students of English football, it’s time for an early squint at the Premiership table. Arsenal, unbeaten in 45 games, have made a perfect, goal-happy start, Chelsea remain unbeaten two points behind them with upstarts Bolton struggling for oxygen in third. Then drop lower down the table.
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/ 17 September 2004
Schalke’s Ebbe Sand scored a hat-trick and Newcastle’s Patrick Kluivert hit two on Thursday as the favoured teams in the Uefa Cup took big strides toward the second round. Lazio scored a 3-0 victory in Ukraine, Germany’s Schalke won 5-1 and VfB Stuttgart won 3-1 on the road.
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/ 17 September 2004
With precious little to crow about since the last time England looked to a cocky young Tottenham player for inspiration, those who have spent the post-Gazza years traipsing to White Hart Lane will this season be excused for skipping all the way. Maybe the years of miserable mediocrity are coming to an end.