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/ 10 December 2003
At some point in most relationships, you start to think about spicing up your sex life. And so, wearing dark glasses, I sneak off to the erotica section of my local bookshop and scan the shelves — only to find no reflection of myself, a black woman, on or between the book covers.
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/ 10 December 2003
The Technology Top 100 is an odd competition. Winners receive an award but no money. Even small enterprises have to fly themselves to the gala dinner in Midrand. And the process of applying is arduous. So why is it that there was a 37% increase in entries compared to last year?
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/ 10 December 2003
It wasn’t the president of Uganda’s most electrifying speech on HIV/Aids. Bits of it were confused; others, platitudinous. But in the midst of his tired ramblings in honour of World Aids Day, President Yoweri Museveni managed to say something that infuriated half his audience and delighted the other half.
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/ 10 December 2003
Tougher laws are needed to curb child abuse, say Kenyan lawmakers stunned by the sharp rise in violent attacks against children, local media reported Wednesday.
Thousands of Kenyan children are abandoned, beaten, raped, burned and tortured and the offenders are encouraged by the nation’s weak enforcement of child protection laws.
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/ 10 December 2003
Leeds United told the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday they are in early talks with interested parties, in a move that appears to confirm reports that three Arab sheikhs are planning to buy out the English Premiership crisis club, including Bahrain-based Sheikh Abdul Mubarak Al-Khalifa, a long-time Leeds fan.
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/ 10 December 2003
Celta de Vigo and Sparta Prague advanced to the final 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday, eliminating esteemed clubs Lazio and four-time former winner Ajax from European competition. Former Spanish international Jose Ignacio Saenz scored in the 71st minute to lead Celta to a 2-1 win against a depleted AC Milan squad.
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/ 10 December 2003
South Africa’s record Test run scorer Gary Kirsten is in line to replace Zimbabwean Murray Goodwin at county champions Sussex for the 2004/2005 season, it was revealed on Tuesday. The 36-year-old record caps holder with 95 is one of Sussex’s top targets to replace Goodwin.
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/ 10 December 2003
Wimbledon champion Roger Federer announced on Tuesday that he has split from his Swedish coach, Peter Lundgren, after three years. ”Peter Lundgren and Roger Federer have gone a lot further that the goals they had set,” said a statement on Federer’s website.
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/ 10 December 2003
The forthcoming Air Namibia four-day international track meeting at the Cape’s renowned Bellville Velodrome promises to be a meeting of many of the world’s cycling maestros. The organiser has put together a mouth-watering feast comprising a menu of some of the greatest names in world track cycling.
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/ 10 December 2003
Seemingly unbeatable in formula one, six-times world champion Michael Schumacher will on Thursday test his speeding skills against a supersonic jet fighter at an Italian military airbase. Schumacher will take on the brand-new Eurofighter Typhoon hunter-bomber in two straight-line speed contests.