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/ 25 August 2004

Time to cut down

The current world order is essentially about the geopolitics of oil, and the book The End of Oil by Paul Roberts is a tour de force in charting, in a highly readable, balanced and objective manner, a fluid, constantly changing dynamic. We need to face up to the crisis in energy consumption.

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/ 25 August 2004

EIAs for the people

I am not cynical about EIAs, I just have a skewed view of their effectiveness when most of the times I hear about them it is from the same advocacy groups conducting campaigns in the media. The truth is that a hungry stomach does not see the grace in the buck, writes Donald Kau.

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/ 25 August 2004

Czech champ takes decathlon honours

Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic added the Olympic gold medal — and the Olympic mark — to his world record by completing a come-from-behind victory on Tuesday in the decathlon. Ezekiel Kemboi led a Kenyan sweep in the 3 000m steeplechase and Tonique Williams-Darling won the 400m in 49,41 seconds.

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/ 25 August 2004

SA diver reaches Olympic semifinals

Jenna Dreyer, the 18-year-old South African diving champion who ”bombed” out in the 10m platform discipline, came good at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday when she qualified for the semifinals in the 3m springboard at the Aquatic Centre. Dreyer made it through to Thursday’s finals with a 267,84-point total.

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/ 25 August 2004

SA crawls to 191 against Sri Lanka

Jacques Kallis scored a patient half-century on Wednesday as South Africa set a modest 191-run victory target against Sri Lanka in the crucial third one-day international. South African skipper Graeme Smith won the toss and decided to bat first in a match that the visitors must win to stay in the five-match series.

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/ 25 August 2004

Six sides advance in Champions League

Last season’s runners-up, Monaco, as well as Inter Milan, Liverpool and Deportivo reached the group stage of the Champions League on Tuesday. Monaco hammered Slovenian side Hit Gorica 6-0, after winning the first leg 3-0. Inter Milan put on an impressive display to defeat Basel 4-1 and advance.

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/ 25 August 2004

Still an incomplete revolution

I remember being present at the time of the announcement of the results of the first democratic election when President Thabo Mbeki — then not yet president nor even deputy president — spoke, seeking analogy from a line from Wordsworth’s poem on the French Revolution: ”Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”. And indeed it was, and for many of us it has been since then. But not for us all, writes Arthur Chaskalson.