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/ 13 October 2003
Listening to Rika, a hot and young Indonesian pop star, felt good while chilling on a bed at Aneka Kuta hotel. Nothing mattered but the moment. My day had been an adventure and I wondered what to do next during my stay in Bali, Indonesia’s most famous holiday island. I thought about why on earth anyone would want to bomb any part of this peaceful place.
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/ 13 October 2003
A long line of taxis is a visitor’s first welcome to Soweto as you pass Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital. A seemingly endless suburb lies ahead creating an impression of a cultural wasteland. But that impression could not be further from the truth. The township boasts a rich cultural and political history that goes back to the very roots of South Africa’s democracy.
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/ 13 October 2003
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and South African Tourism would like to respond to the recent Going Places opinion piece by Sharon van Wyk. The article began by questioning what Tourism Month had achieved.
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/ 13 October 2003
Congratulations to Toyota on setting a slew of new speed and distance endurance records at Gerotek last weekend. With their eight bakkies covering 84 887 kilometres in just three days the company ended a 14 year drought of endurance record breaking in South Africa in style!
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/ 13 October 2003
When I first heard the phrase "safe sex" I thought I was being encouraged to go out and pomp a Swede. After all, no other nation is as concerned with safety as are our Scandinavian cousins, so much so that they often seem to have forgotten how to enjoy themselves. But with the arrival of the new Volvo S60R that’s all changed.
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/ 13 October 2003
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says he will not stand for re-election into the government next year. In an interview with the Sunday Independent newspaper, Maduna said he would serve in the African National Congress in any other capacity, ”even as a floor sweeper”.
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/ 13 October 2003
Fighting Aids was supposed to show George Bush’s softer side. ”Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many,” he said in his State of the Union address in January. He has since reconsidered, deciding instead to offer a few more opportunities to the few.
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/ 13 October 2003
Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled out of southern Gaza on Sunday after one of the most destructive raids of the intifada, leaving hundreds of Palestinians without homes and eight dead, including two children.
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/ 13 October 2003
A suicide car bomber killed six Iraqis on Sunday in a huge explosion at one of Baghdad’s most heavily guarded hotels where CIA teams, American contractors and senior Iraqi officials were staying. The lunchtime blast was the latest in a series of devastating bombings over the past six months that have claimed nearly 200 lives, most of them Iraqi civilians.
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