Staff Reporter
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/ 18 June 2004

Privatisation doubts persist

The trade union movement last week celebrated the assurance by Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin that the wholesale sell-off of state-owned assets was off the menu and that labour would in future be consulted on the restructuring of state enterprises. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) remained wary of aspects of Erwin’s watershed speech in Parliament.

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/ 18 June 2004

White gold

The completion of the first phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project was celebrated with a colourful shindig in the fresh mountain air of the Lesotho mountains in mid-March. <i>Earthyear</i> asks what is the legacy it leaves behind?

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/ 18 June 2004

Jingle hells

You want fan-song? Lovely fan-song, very clean? Hey, GI, five dorrar I give you long time fan-song, only five Merican dorrar. It sounds rude but not a little intriguing, some manner of red-light-district pork dish served on a bed of rice and cheap perfume. But then the music starts, and the hyphen falls away like orchid petals in the first gusts of a monsoon. Ugly and depressing, the fan song squawks to life, and sport settles a few inches deeper into the muck.

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/ 18 June 2004

Black Stars will come out blazing

The battle for precious places in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the African Cup of Nations in Egypt in the same year continues in earnest as Bafana Bafana take on a wounded Ghana in Kumasi on Sunday. The South African national team will be hosted by the Black Stars in the second game of a series that serves as qualifiers for both 2006 tournaments.

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/ 18 June 2004

Beckham: ‘I carry on until I win’

For David Beckham, it’s personal. When was it ever any other way? “Nothing will defeat me,” he said before the Euro 2004 game against Switzerland, reflecting on the penalty kick saved by Fabien Barthez. England had been on the verge of winning the match with France that they eventually lost, but the captain is ready to try again from 12m if the occasion arises.

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/ 18 June 2004

Boks buoyed by the Ox

While many South African rugby fans are popping champagne corks in celebration of the return of Percy Montgomery to the Springbok side. But it is the resurgence of Os du Randt, not the return of Montgomery, they should be celebrating.

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/ 18 June 2004

Police arrest soccer officials, referees

A number of first division and premier soccer club referees and club officials were arrested early on Friday morning in police raids following allegations of soccer match fixing, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said the operation, codenamed Dribble, kicked off at 2am on Friday morning.