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/ 2 December 2003
The popular Vodacom Caddie Foundation is threatened with extinction, following the decision by the sponsor not to renew its six-year contract. This innovative and socially responsible initiative by Golfcom, a division of Altmedia, created a sense of pride and developed career paths for a previously ignored section of the sporting world.
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/ 2 December 2003
Unauthorised payments to media tycoon Conrad Black and former directors of Hollinger International have caused the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, the London Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers to overstate its earnings by -million.
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/ 2 December 2003
Sixty years after the Holocaust, European Jews and Israelis are increasingly wondering if Europe is being sucked into the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. ”Anti-semitism has become politically correct in Europe,”’ said Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident and a minister in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government.
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/ 2 December 2003
The most famous and influential Georgian in world politics since Joseph Stalin, Eduard Shevardnadze, finally bowed out last weekend after controlling his small, but strategically crucial, country for more than a generation. This is how Shevardnadze went from glasnost hero to hated lame duck.
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/ 2 December 2003
Much has been said and written about the state of the South African advertising industry since the 1994 democratic elections. South Africa was welcomed back into the international community and, in return, seemed only too happy to add our kraals and Cape Dutch homesteads to the global village.
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/ 2 December 2003
Lance Klusener’s chances of forcing his way back into the South African cricket side were boosted significantly on Tuesday when one of his main detractors, national skipper Graeme Smith, offered him an olive branch. ”We’ve both said things about each other,” said Smith, ”and some of it’s probably been blown up a bit.”
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/ 2 December 2003
There is a rape every 26 seconds in South Africa. A woman is murdered by her partner every six days in Gauteng. The costs of ineffective policing and prosecution are too high. The person who assaulted and kidnapped me was never arrested, writes Charlene Smith.
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/ 2 December 2003
USA Track and Field officials will consider tougher penalties for doping positives, including a lifetime ban for steroid users, at the group’s 25th annual meeting in North Carolina. Following the revelation of previously undetectable THG, there will be pressure on officials to do something meaningful in terms of punishing dopers.
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/ 2 December 2003
The New Zealand Rugby Union moved on Tuesday to transfer control of the All Blacks from coach to manager as fallout continued from the country’s World Cup failure. Union chairperson and lawyer Jock Hobbs said the move is part of a ”fundamental restructuring of the All Blacks division”.
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/ 2 December 2003
Manchester United duo Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo both escaped suspensions but were each fined and given warnings regarding their future conduct by the Football Association in London on Monday, following a five-hour hearing at a Heathrow hotel.