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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa captain Graeme Smith expressed confidence on Thursday that his team can make a fresh start after its unbeaten streak was broken during the ongoing series against India. South Africa finished one short of Australia’s world-record sequence of 21 games without a defeat last week when it lost by six wickets to India in the second one-dayer of the five-match series.
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/ 25 November 2005
With the weather forecasters anticipating the coldest weekend in Edinburgh in a decade, Scotland must hope the All Blacks also freeze at Murrayfield on Saturday. A 3-0 series win over the British and Irish Lions in June and July and a Tri-Nations title had established Graham Henry’s squad as the pre-eminent force in world rugby long before they touched down in Cardiff at the end of last month.
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/ 25 November 2005
"I’m sure it was someone far more learned who said "With great power comes great responsibility" — but, for now, my only recollection is of Spiderman’s uncle lecturing an impatient Spidey in the 2002 movie. Those words popped into my head the first time I put my foot flat on the accelerator of the new Chrysler Crossfire SRT6 Roadster," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 25 November 2005
For Ntando Bangani, Afro-pop’s seemingly top exponent, there is more to his music than immediately meets the ear. He speaks to Kwanele Sosibo ahead of the Metro FM awards.
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/ 25 November 2005
The newly-published <i>Desperately Seeking Paradise</i> traces writer Ziauddin Sardar’s journey from his youth as a Muslim student activist in the 1970s to his role in various Muslim think-tanks. Rustum Kozain reviews the book.
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/ 25 November 2005
Banking group Absa says it is well prepared to add impetus to the empowerment drive — one of South Africa’s delicate initiatives central to the successful transformation of our society and its economy. Absa is ready to take the country’s black economic empowerment (BEE) process to greater heights, the group says.
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/ 25 November 2005
If wars and genocides were Africa’s only news, African newspapers and international news networks like CNN would run the same stories. But Al-Jazeera International aims to be different. As part of a "fresh 360 degree [change] to news coverage," the soon-to-be-launched television network plans to run African news stories as part of its normal news cycle — not just when violence occurs.
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/ 25 November 2005
A new look at Department of Education statistics suggests that from 1995 to 2001 a startling 40% of primary school children dropped out of school. The findings, by the University of Cape Town’s Professor Crain Soudien, are contained in a 10-year review of schooling conducted by the Centre for Education Policy Development for the South African Democratic Teachers Union.
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/ 25 November 2005
Ash blanketed the Comoros capital on Friday after the Indian Ocean archipelago’s Mount Karthala erupted for the second time this year, spewing smoke and cinders over the nation’s main island of Grand Comore. Meanwhile, Volcano Galeras, located near Colombia’s southern Colombia border with Ecuador, began erupting on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2005
The Young Communist League is considering suspending its deputy national secretary, Mazibuko Jara, for questioning the league’s support for Jacob Zuma. It is understood that the league met recently to discuss the suspension of Jara over a paper he has written titled <i>What Colour Is Our Flag? Red or JZ?</i>. The paper has been leaked to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.