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/ 12 December 2003
Even as the Anglophiles battled it out in Abuja, North Africans and their European neighbours across the Mediterranean were having a summit of their own. The practically named Five-plus-Five summit in Tunis brought the presidents of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya together with their counterparts from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Malta.
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/ 12 December 2003
Orlando Pirates might be in need of some fresh ideas to beat Kaizer Chiefs in Saturday’s big clash at Soccer City. That is because both scorers in December 2001’s 3-0 victory (their last win against the old enemy), two-goal hero Lesley Manyathela and Benedict Vilakazi, will not be available this weekend.
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/ 12 December 2003
New South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen has some fractious times ahead, but it will no doubt help his peace of mind to be able to actually watch some rugby when he arrives at Outeniqua Park in George on Friday for the second leg of the IRB International Sevens series.
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/ 11 December 2003
South African diplomats have quietly begun to acknowledge that after the Commonwealth decision to continue to suspend Zimbabwe from its ranks, and the country’s subsequent decision to pull out of the organisation, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is likely to continue to cling to power.
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/ 11 December 2003
It takes a jet plane to beat Michael Schumacher. An Italian air force fighter jet defeated Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari 2-1 on Thursday in three races down a military airport’s rain-soaked runways, though Schumacher’s Ferrari F2003-GA proved to be a nose faster than the Eurofighter Typhoon in the first race of 600m.
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/ 11 December 2003
A Free State farmer on Thursday won, in the Bloemfontein High Court, what is regarded as a test case on the levying of tax on agricultural land. Farmer Hendrik Boshoff from Reitz in the eastern Free State was granted a court order declaring illegal the levying of a 2% municipal tax on his farms.
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/ 11 December 2003
Department of Education Director General Thami Mseleku was on Thursday adamant that global recommendations on education are not necessarily appropriate to South Africa. One of the recommendations of the report is that there be no school fees of any kind.
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/ 11 December 2003
Interim Prime Minister Abel Goumba of the Central African Republic was sacked on Thursday, government spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Parfait M’Baye announced on state radio. General Francois Bozize named Goumba, a veteran opposition leader, prime minister a week after seizing power in a coup in March.