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/ 24 November 2003
In 1995 it was Joel Stransky, in 2003 it was Jonny Wilkinson. Stransky’s winning drop goal for the Springboks came early in the second period of extra time, Wilkinson’s came with 30 seconds left in the second period, in the 99th minute of a gripping World Cup final. England at last take home the Webb-Ellis trophy.
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/ 24 November 2003
Barely three months after the failure of the Cancun ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), African countries are preparing to go back into the ring with the economic superpowers. South Africa was among a dozen African countries that met in Cairo the week before last to renew the fight.
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/ 24 November 2003
Judging by coverage of the black empowerment workshop for the wine sector, slickly hosted in Cape Town last month by the South African Wine Industry Trust, the unthinkable is happening. The fragmented, conservative and insular wine industry, dominated for so long by bastions of Afrikaner power such as the KWV, is embracing change.
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/ 24 November 2003
After 10 attempts, and on the back of a superb bowling display from Andrew Hall, Easterns finally overcame their voodoo team, Boland, in a limited-overs cricket match at Willowmoore Park on Sunday. The hosts won the encounter by four runs after they restricted Boland to 193 for seven in pursuit of Easterns’ 197 for eight.
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/ 24 November 2003
Ernie Els was shaking from nerves, but South African president Thabo Mbeki, who took up golf a year ago, was so excited about the astonishing tie between the International team and America that he danced a jig with Gary Player at the closing ceremony of the Presidents Cup at Fancourt on Sunday.
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/ 24 November 2003
Facility 1391 has been airbrushed from Israeli aerial photographs and purged from maps. Where once a police station was marked there is now a blank space. Sometimes even the road leading to it has been erased. But Facility 1391 exists — just ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there.
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/ 24 November 2003
Dingaan Thobela is not done yet. The 37-year-old wilting ”Rose of Soweto” made that bold statement on Sunday morning after dropping a points loss to Ortis Grant at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday afternoon (Canadian time). ”That time has not come yet,” said the former WBC super middleweight champion.
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/ 24 November 2003
Last week’s Mail & Guardian lauded Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel for his medium-term budget policy statement. He is shedding his Maggie Thatcher image, claimed the editorial, and returning the African National Congress to its ”social democratic roots”. This really is a lot of nonsense.
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/ 24 November 2003
As the white England shirts melted away from the streets of Sydney yesterday, the airport’s departure lounges were already filling up. Thousands of fans, bleary-eyed after a night of drunken euphoria, made it the busiest day at Sydney airport since the end of the 2000 Olympics.
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/ 24 November 2003
Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour has called for an urgent meeting with rugby administrators to discuss recent reports about the Springbok rugby team’s ”extraordinarily unorthodox” preparations for the 2003 World Cup. ”I regard the reports as serious enough to merit urgent intervention,” said Balfour.
Bishop not impressed