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/ 13 January 2004
Corrupt fat cats in Malawi continue to walk around with their heads held high, even though they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. The consequences of their acts are set to remain a burden on this poor Southern African country of more than 11-million people as it prepares to go to the polls in May.
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/ 13 January 2004
"An educationist should never be made a minister of education, just like a military person should not be made minister of defence," Kader Asmal, then water and forestry minister, told the <i>Sunday Times</i> in 1996. "They bring their own activist ideas, but there is more to it than that [activism]."
As the matric furore rages, spotlights focus on the man at the centre, Minister of Education Kader Asmal, reports
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/ 13 January 2004
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is a truism obviously followed by Kawasaki in the evolution of their KLR650 on/off road motorcycle. The bike’s been with us since 1987 with very few significant changes. Gavin Foster climbs on board and takes us for a spin.
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/ 13 January 2004
While out for dinner recently, my brother said something unusually strange. He told us that an odd thing had happened to him, many years ago, at the tender age of 16 … And that set me thinking about fantasies. Is there a correlation between our fantasies and our actual desires?
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/ 13 January 2004
Almost 10 years after the death of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his father — Pa Beesam Wiwa — remains angry and sad. A tribunal appointed by General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s military ruler at the time, sentenced Saro-Wiwa to death in 1995 after a controversial trial. Pa Wiwa says the execution left him embittered.
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/ 13 January 2004
Leave the children alone! That was the main import of the Department of Education’s emergency press conference last week about the matric results. But, once again, the truth was hidden behind statistics.
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/ 13 January 2004
Nina Rodrigues has little doubt that President Luiz Inacio ”Lula” da Silva will bring her a better life and that Zero Hunger is just the start. ”He came from the same background and he can understand what people want … He is a fighter and he will bring us all together.” But harsh economic realities have thwarted Da Silva’s radical programme.
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/ 13 January 2004
The sheer speed and scale of China’s economic expansion are so extraordinary that they have roused fears in certain quarters. For nearly two decades China has recorded an average annual growth of about 10% and 14% growth in merchandise trade, three times that of world trade in the same period.
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/ 13 January 2004
Often described as one of the most talented athletes in the South Africa, Josia Bembe, has been cut down in his prime. He died in the KwaMhlanga Hospital in Mpumalanga on Monday following a shooting accident in the early hours of Monday.
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/ 13 January 2004
Weekend speculation that the suspension of Bafana Bafana head coach Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba could pave way for the return of Benni McCarthy, Mark Fish and George Koumantarakis, has no foundation.