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/ 13 October 2003
England coach Clive Woodward is ready for the crunch against South Africa on Saturday — but he doesn’t expect a repeat of last year’s ”Boer War” at Twickenham. Woodward says the Springboks looked in good physical shape against Uruguay and played the game ”in the right spirit”.
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/ 13 October 2003
Prepare for Boer War Two. Werner Greef, the South African full-back has warned England to expect the full treatment next Saturday. Greef, yellow carded for a stiff-arm tackle when the Springboks disgraced themselves at Twickenham last November, insists England don’t scare him.
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/ 13 October 2003
Try not to be too sceptical. The global economy does appear to be on the mend. Growth is picking up in Japan and the United States, and sentiment is probably on the turn in Europe as well. Expect forecasts for 2004 to be revised upward over the next few months.
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/ 13 October 2003
A scandal over an exclusive contract for the sale of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) diamonds has exposed a rift in that country’s unity government and cast a pall over the implementation of the Kimberley Process, designed to stem the trade in conflict diamonds.
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/ 13 October 2003
Dion Fourie marked his return to the Sunshine Tour after a three-year absence with a dramatic one-stroke victory in the Bearing Man Highveld Classic at the Witbank Golf Club on Sunday. Fourie birdied three of his final four holes to clinch his maiden victory on the tour at 15 under par 201 with a final round of 68.
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/ 13 October 2003
ThisDay is on an aggressive mission to redefine South Africas newspaper market. Will the Nigerian-backed title leave local conglomerates wondering why they didnt grab the opportunity, or will the homeboys have the last laugh?Kevin Bloom reports.
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/ 13 October 2003
Ten South-East Asia nations last week signed a landmark accord to turn their vastly disparate states into an integrated, tariff-free trading and economic community by 2020. A pact with Beijing would create by far the world’s largest free-trade zone, with nearly two billion people and total GDP of almost -trillion.
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/ 13 October 2003
She is launching a new niche publication called The Media and having fun.
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/ 13 October 2003
”I can resist everything except temptation,” Oscar Wilde once said. It’s arguably the master’s most repeated witticism, mainly because it’s a handy way of telling people you’re about to do something you shouldn’t, like gloat immoderately about your magazine’s content in the editor’s column.
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/ 13 October 2003
Journalists often get blocked by the sub judice rule when angling for comment on a thorny issue. Is it a convenient excuse, an abused device for cutting the interview short? Zama Mkosi of law firm Rosin Wright Rosengarten explains.