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/ 17 December 2004
Two weeks ago, IBM agreed to sell its PC business to Lenovo, a Chinese company formerly known as Legend. However, there is no need for buyers to panic. In the short term — 18 months to three years — it should be business as usual. The next generation of ThinkPad portables should arrive on schedule, following the current roadmap. As for the long term — beyond five years — we can only wait and see.
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/ 17 December 2004
After three weeks of high-profile events, golf in South Africa now takes a break for the festive season. There is a qualifier for the (British) Open Championship at Atlantic Beach in Cape Town on January 13 and 14, but the season proper doesn’t resume until the 20th, which will give the players an opportunity to burn off Christmas excess.
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/ 17 December 2004
Sharif Omar has been waiting two years for the bulldozers, ever since Israel’s steel and barbed wire ”security fence” carved its way between his village and its land. Last week the excavators and diggers finally arrived on the outskirts of Jayyous to lay the foundations for an expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Zufim, fulfilling the fears and warnings of its Palestinian neighbours.
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/ 17 December 2004
One of Saddam Hussein’s most feared lieutenants, known as Chemical Ali for ordering gas attacks on Kurdish villages, will appear in court in Baghdad within days, an Iraqi minister said this week. According to Hazem Shaalan, the Defence Minister, Ali Hassan al-Majid will be in the dock next week to answer a string of charges for crimes against humanity. ”He will be the first to be tried,” he said.
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/ 17 December 2004
As a young man, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a gifted footballer; but not quite good enough to turn professional. So he concentrated on politics instead. Now Erdogan is Prime Minister of Turkey. European Union leaders, who must make a decision on Turkey’s membership application at last week’s Brussels summit, may be wishing the skilful, determined Erdogan had stuck to football.
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/ 17 December 2004
The English cricket team’s media entourage has turned the tourists’ loss to South Africa A in Potchefstroom into some sort of cricketing Isandlwana. As flashbulbs popped under the bed this week, the subtexts screamed from between the lines of English broadsheets and websites.
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/ 17 December 2004
It was first blood to England in the opening session of the first Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test against South Africa at St George’s Park on Friday, with three wickets falling before lunch. The lunchtime score was 83 for three, with Jacques Rudolph on 41 and Boeta Dippenaar on six.
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/ 17 December 2004
Log leaders Orlando Pirates should easily pocket the three points against Santos during their Castle Premiership match at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. Bucs are the only club in the league who have yet to lose and Supersport United coach Pitso Mosimane has already tipped them to walk away with the title this season.
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/ 17 December 2004
What are the transformational challenges facing the country and more specifically, the legal profession as we enter the second decade of democracy? You can argue that lawyers need to understand transformation so that they can draft, interpret, evaluate and adjudicate related issues for the benefit of others. But does this mean that there is a need for the legal profession to be subjected to a transformation charter?
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/ 17 December 2004
Representatives of the rebel New Forces arrived in Pretoria on Thursday convinced they hold the moral high ground in African-led efforts to end the two-year crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. They have seized the initiative in being first to come back to President Thabo Mbeki since his visit to the troubled West African state last week.