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/ 23 January 2004
Rain over the past few days has helped to ease the drought, but government officials and farmers say much more is needed to break its destructive grip. "The rain was very helpful," said Mike Muller, Director General in the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. "But it is not nearly enough to break the drought."
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/ 23 January 2004
A Test on the Highveld is normally a sure sign of a break in the weather, and drought-stricken farmers in the north were celebrating the rain that almost saved the West Indies in Centurion at the beginning of the week. Joy should be unconfined, then, at the return to Johannesburg of the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
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/ 23 January 2004
Three-time champions Cameroon hope to win the African Cup of Nations for a record fourth time – the third in a row. But are they up to the tasks they face in Tunisia? Tutored by German-born Wilfred Schaffer, the team known as the Indomitable Lions arguably remain favourites to retain the trophy.
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/ 23 January 2004
South Africa’s once-hopeful African Cup of Nations crusade is looking like a lost cause. A cause so lost even the most optimistic Bafana Bafana supporter couldn’t trace it. Think needle and haystack. Metal detector on the blink. Very big haystack. Most of the needle stuck in the coach’s back. That’s how bad things are.
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/ 23 January 2004
The African Cup of Nations has been dominated in the past by countries from North, West and Central Africa. Zambia were Southern Africa’s first representatives at the tournament, reaching the final on debut against Zaire in 1974. This year another sleeping giant of the south, Zimbabwe, will be making a first appearance.
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/ 23 January 2004
Southern Africa has consistently sent only two teams to the African Cup of Nations since 1996. Once again South Africa are there and, finally, after 23 years of independence, Zimbabwe. But neither of them has a hope of reaching the final. Once a nation on the rise in African soccer, South Africa are now going backwards.
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/ 23 January 2004
There is an old saying that if you do not know where you are going then any place you are at is the destination. Over the decades change management pundits have been unanimous, in demanding that any effort to change should have a well-defined plan for the future, an assessment of the current state and a clear idea of how to move from the present state to the future.
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/ 23 January 2004
President George W Bush struck out for the United States’s industrial heartland this week, seeking to drum up support for the economic measures unveiled in his state of the union address and his campaign for re-election in November. Most commentators said the switch in emphasis was clearly dictated by the Democratic primary contest, which had highlighted healthcare, education and jobs.
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/ 23 January 2004
Morocco has approved one of the most progressive laws on women’s and family rights in the Arab world, which will see polygamy almost completely eradicated from the north African country. Last-ditch attempts by Islamist deputies in the Rabat Parliament failed to derail a law that had the backing of King Mohammed VI.
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/ 23 January 2004
For months Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s bitterest opponents have gleefully speculated on the nature of his downfall. Would he be toppled by the ”Greek island affair” allegedly involving millions of dollars in bribes and plans to build an exotic casino on a tiny island in the Aegean Sea?