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A festival touting wines to Sowetans drew record numbers over the weekend, organisers said on Sunday. Participants tasted wines from more than 800 labels on display at the show at Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg. ”I tasted wine for the first time at the show and I love the experience,” said a 20-year-old university undergraduate.
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/ 10 September 2007
Namibia and Zambia both pulled off shock wins in the African Nations Cup qualifiers at the weekend to book their places at the 2008 finals in Ghana. They were joined by fellow group winners Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal while 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa sneaked in the back door.
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Namibian rugby union president Dirk Conradie and his entire executive committee have been barred from attending the World Cup in France, organisers confirmed on Sunday. Conradie has been accused of complicity in the irregular sale of World Cup tickets, a charge he denies.
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/ 10 September 2007
Police arrested Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Sunday in connection with a protest she led against drug lords wreaking havoc in Cape Town’s poor districts. DA councillor Grant Pascoe said Zille was arrested after she went to a police station to inquire about the arrest of a religious leader who had participated in the protest.
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/ 10 September 2007
The Bush administration’s most senior advisers on Iraq, the commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, and the ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, will launch a new drive today to defer any exit of troops until April 2008 amid growing doubts about their credibility in Congress and among the public.
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/ 10 September 2007
Out of sight and mind for almost two decades, inmate number 38699-079 completed his sentence on Sunday an older, frailer figure than the world remembered. Manuel Noriega served out his time at Miami’s Federal Correctional Institution with a gammy leg, his hair dyed and in the uniform of an army which no longer exists, a bogeyman from another era.
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/ 10 September 2007
The new-look Anglo American Corporation was very much on display at the announcement last week of one of two of the biggest black economic empowerment deals in South African mining — and a real advance for black ownership of platinum reserves.
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/ 10 September 2007
Healthcare costs will be taking an increasingly bigger bite out of our pockets each year as medical inflation continues to climb far higher than wage increases. This was the bottom line at a panel discussion held at the Absa Healthcare Consultants’ Seminar last week.
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/ 10 September 2007
In Lungisile Ntsebeza’s <i>Polokwane Briefing</i> of August 17 he says it is by now widely acknowledged that "land reform … is a dismal failure". The claim of "failure" is a common one, but it often obscures how — and in what setting — policies were made in the first place, argues Deborah James.
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/ 10 September 2007
Things just keep getting better for Patrice Motsepe. The mining magnate and soccer boss is South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire. But even as he catapults up the wealth stakes, it is unclear just how broad-based one of his key deals are, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.