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New National Party leaders and delegates from across the country turned out in force at the NNP’s national election manifesto launch in Stellenbosch on Friday. The launch followed the party’s federal council meeting earlier, where incumbent leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk was unanimously re-elected to the post.
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/ 20 February 2004
Pharmaceutical wholesalers proposed on Friday a gradual reduction in the manufacturer’s exit price of medicines instead of the immediate 50% slash the government wants to come into effect by May 2.
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/ 20 February 2004
New Zealand survived a desperate last-over lashing from an injured Shaun Pollock to secure a dramatic five-run win over South Africa in a one-day cricket international on Friday. Needing 26 to win off the last five balls, Pollock clouted three mighty sixes and a two but his heroic effort was stifled by a last-ball yorker from Kyle Mills.
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/ 20 February 2004
Jomo Cosmos are bracing themselves for a tough game against Kaizer Chiefs in a Premier Soccer League match at Mmabatho Stadium in North West on Sunday. It will be the second professional match staged in Mmabatho after defending champions Orlando Pirates and Silver Stars played to a 2-all draw last Sunday.
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South African captain Graeme Smith won the toss and chose to bowl first in the rain-reduced third one-day cricket international against New Zealand at Westpac Stadium on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2004
While the figures for drought and famine in Southern Africa are less apocalyptic than they were a year ago, the scale of human misery is unacceptably high and an appeal to the international community for special help looks inevitable. The continuing drought and the HIV/Aids epidemic are expected to keep Southern Africa in need of aid for years to come.
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/ 20 February 2004
There have only been a couple of occasions in modern times when you could credibly claim that the most gifted footballer in the world was earning his living in England. George Best, for a while in the late Sixties, and Thierry Henry, now. Just how good is Arsenal’s 100 goal-scoring resident genius?
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/ 20 February 2004
When Arsène Wenger reflected that a mark of a great player lies in an ability to produce something special when least expected, it summed up José Antonio Reyes’s afternoon on February 15 to perfection. Hard as he was trying, the recent arrival from Sevilla looked lost as an intense cup tie swirled around him.
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/ 20 February 2004
I’ve said all season the Gunners are one Thierry Henry injury away from crisis every week. Now that Arsène Wenger has made his canny dip into the coffers at Highbury, that fear has receded a little. And of course it’s Chelsea again at lunchtime on Saturday after this week’s friendly internationals.
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/ 20 February 2004
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took another tentative step on the road to full fitness at Altrincham, unconcerned about the threat to his Manchester United place from Louis Saha. The Norwegian forward has managed just an hour of game time since having surgery to correct a knee complaint that has limited him to six appearances this season.