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/ 24 September 2004
Top South African side Santos are hoping for their second Confederation Cup Group B victory when they meet Cotonsport in Cameroon on Saturday. Supersport United have pledged to cause an upset by beating Tunisian giants Esperance for their African Champions League match.
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/ 24 September 2004
Wayne Ferreira got the South African Davis Cup team off to a winning start in their Euro/Africa Zone Group I Davis Cup tie against Greece at the Groenkloof Tennis Stadium on Friday when he scored a fighting 6-3 5-7 7-5 6-2 victory over Vasilis Mazarakis.
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/ 23 September 2004
Meteorologists oft-times speak about the greater cycles of global weather, recurring patterns sometimes aeons apart, sometimes separated by only a few years. Why do lemmings save up the years and then, obeying some mystical signal, rush to throw themselves off the nearest precipice? Which brings me to the subject of this week’s sermon: Wherever you look these days, you will find monsters in charge.
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/ 23 September 2004
Promising transparency is one thing, but the South African government delivering it is quite another. If you want to know what is going on and have the temerity to ask, the chances are that you will simply be ignored. Rather than abide by their constitutional and statutory duty to respond to requests for public information, government agencies prefer to stick their head in the sand and hope the pesky interlocutor will go away.
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/ 23 September 2004
A top official from Sudan’s ruling party said on Thursday the government will not disarm ”Arab tribes” in the troubled Darfur region, saying they are not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia. ”The government and international community are not in agreement over the definition of the Janjaweed,” a National Congress spokesperson said.
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/ 23 September 2004
Free-to-air television station e.tv did not broadcast footage of the beheading of an American hostage in Iraq as reported on Thursday, the station said. The station’s editor-in-chief, Joe Thloloe, said on Thursday reports that stated his station had aired footage of the beheading in the manner that SABC1 did were not entirely correct.
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/ 23 September 2004
The South African government on Thursday welcomed the decision by the United States to lift sanctions against Libya and the European Union’s provisional approval for a partial lifting of sanctions. On Monday, US President George Bush released ,3-billion in frozen Libyan assets.
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/ 23 September 2004
Despite an outcry from the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), South Africa’s first National Fireworks Competition is set to go ahead, NSPCA spokesperson Christine Kuch said on Thursday. ”It makes me sick to the teeth,” Kuch said
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/ 23 September 2004
Iraq’s interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, thanked the United States on Thursday for liberating his country and said Iraq is on the path to success. ”We are succeeding in Iraq,” he told a joint session of Congress. The US has made ”enormous sacrifices” in Iraq, Allawi said, vowing that those ”sacrifices are not in vein”.