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/ 28 November 2003
The African National Congress’s list of candidates for the next general election looks depressingly familiar — the same names call to mind the same faces, in many cases with eyes closed and dozing blissfully on the back benches of Parliament.
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/ 28 November 2003
The goal of having Africa put out its own fires as far as possible looks increasingly unattainable as conflicts in West Africa and the Great Lakes demand the deployment of blue helmets. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan expressed his concern this week that Côte d’Ivoire was sliding into conflict.
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/ 28 November 2003
For the South African national soccer coaches, it does not rain but pours. This rings true when it comes to club versus country selections. What Bafana Bafana’s Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba has endured in trying to get a team to play in next year’s Nations Cup in Tunisia is what his under-23 coach, Kenneth "Conti" Khubeka, is expected to go through next week.
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/ 28 November 2003
Mark Gold asserts that tourism in South Africa is not taking off because "apartheid-era" regulations are preventing charter flights from Europe. It’s a pity Gold raises such an important question on the basis of shaky "facts" and anecdotes. He ignores the 24,2% growth in tourism from Europe to South Africa last year.
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/ 28 November 2003
It was only after his death in 2000 that Mushe Sinoamadi’s dream of running a profitable fruit farm was brought to life. His wife, Tendani, took over the running of the 38ha Hill Crescent Estate in Levubu, Limpopo, and just three years later she has scooped this year’s Female Farmer of the Year award.
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/ 28 November 2003
Australia take on Spain in the Davis Cup final this weekend, at home, on grass, in a tennis contest they are expected to win comfortably. For those who bleed green and gold, only victory will do, but the terrible spectre of losing persisted in Melbourne Park this week despite the air of jollity on court.
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/ 28 November 2003
The annual task of picking a winner from the field of invitees to the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City has been complicated this time around by the Presidents Cup. After a draining time at the Presidents Cup, Ernie Els must pick himself up to defend his Nedbank Challenge title.
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/ 28 November 2003
The US military has not punished any soldier for shooting an unarmed civilian and refuses even to keep count of the civilians its soldiers kill. Yet for several months now, US officers have been quietly paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to relatives of the dead and injured, offering polite but carefully worded condolences and promising investigations that lead nowhere.
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/ 28 November 2003
The Premier Soccer League did not expect to have smooth running this season after cutting down the teams from 18 to 16. But lo and behold, it created one of the most exciting first halves of the soccer season.
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/ 28 November 2003
More than 11-million children in sub-Saharan Africa have now lost one or both parents to Aids, and the fast-rising death toll suggests that within seven years the number will have climbed to 20-million, says Unicef, the United Nations children’s organisation.