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/ 6 February 2004
It was about two minutes long, some off-the-cuff comments made in a BBC domestic radio programme at six in the morning. Eventually, so inflated by spin and the media, this short broadcast became the reason the BBC lost its director general, the chairperson of its board of governors and the journalist who made the comments. How long this cull will continue is anyone’s guess. The BBC is said to be in a state of ”meltdown”.
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/ 6 February 2004
Bafana Bafana were humiliated … no, they were gutted at the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia. An early exit was expected by the South African public, but not a disgraceful one. For the players this was the saddest day in their lives, while for the soccer supporters it is what they had hoped for in order to drill it into the South African Football Association (Safa) administrators that they are failing to run the game of billions in the country.
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/ 6 February 2004
A good way to spend a Sunday is to buy a picnic at Spier Estate and wander the banks of the Eerste Rivier. Besides the usual pleasures of lolling about, you can take in the artworks that make up Waterway, the Spier outdoor sculpture biennial, writes Chris Roper.
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/ 6 February 2004
Acclaimed rock supergroup Limp Bizkit, famous for their heady mix of hip-hop and metal, on Tuesday announced the postponement of their South African tour, which had been due to start in Cape Town on April 2. Riaan Wolmarans reports.
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/ 6 February 2004
Is Sting trying to stay forever young? When listening to his latest album, Sacred Love (Universal), one gets the impression that he’s trying to be with it by dashing bits of fashionable genres into his music to win over new (and young) fans while trying to prove to the Sting faithful that he’s still the man, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 6 February 2004
Having starred for the past five years in the Oscar-nominated movie, Lost in his Portfolio, the minister formerly known as the arts and culture ambassador, has ridden off into the sunset to the land of the rising sun. Tokyo will now have its Little Ben, writes Mike Van Graan.
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/ 6 February 2004
Economists’ reacted on Friday to President Thabo Mbeki’s opening of Parliament and State of the Nation speech. Dennis Dykes, chief economist at Nedcor, said: "I agree with the president on the need for implementation … it is now just a question of applying [the framework] in practice."
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/ 6 February 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki, under pressure publicly to declare that he would not go for an unconstitutional third term of office as head of state, appeared to poke fun at doomsday merchants in his opening of Parliament speech on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2004
The privatisation of South African state-owned enterprises (SOE) seems to have stalled, which, given independent research consultancy BusinessMap Foundation’s 2002 annual review title of <i>A Sense of Movement</i>, is very ironic. BusinessMap’s 2003 review is titled <i>A Change of Pace</i>.
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/ 6 February 2004
Government authorities in drought-ravaged Limpopo province are casting an acquisitive eye on nature reserves in a desperate attempt to avoid livestock deaths.
At least three provincial reserves have been earmarked for temporary cattle grazing and the decommissioning of a number of reserves for alternative long-term land use is being investigated.