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/ 12 October 2003
President George Bush yesterday launched the latest salvo in a White House public relations offensive to convince Americans that things are going well in Iraq.
In his weekly radio address to the nation, Bush said Iraq was ‘making progress’ despite a steady stream of bad news on front pages.
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/ 12 October 2003
South Africa’s World Cup got off to a rousing start with a 72-6 defeat of Uruguay in Perth, the highest score recorded by South Africa in three World Cups. The Springboks scored 12 tries — six in either half — and were far more convincing than against the same opposition at the 1999 tournament.
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/ 12 October 2003
Three tries from Yannick Jauzion and an almost faultless kicking display by Toulouse team-mate Frederic Michalak saw France to an ultimately crushing 61-18 victory over Group B rivals Fiji on Saturday.
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/ 12 October 2003
Bafana Bafana made heavy weather of subduing a lacklustre Costa Rica 2-1 in a disappointing Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup clash played at Olen Park on Saturday. The game rarely got out of neutral. The South Americans, who are ranked 19th in the world by world controlling body Fifa, looked anything but a first rate side.
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/ 11 October 2003
The Public Service Commission report that recommends the head of the police secretariat be removed from his post because of incompetence is not for public consumption, says Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Nqakula said that the report is ”an internal matter”
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/ 11 October 2003
The Dutch Reformed Church tower in Cape Town that makes a dominee’s wife think of a giant phallus is set to stay, but the debate on the issue is not yet over. The controversy arose when the wife claimed the tower was an occult image of a penis ”continually having sex with the goddess of the sky”.
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/ 11 October 2003
South Africa needs to urgently address issues such as black economic empowerment and land reform as well as invest in education to avoid going the way of Zimbabwe, said Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2003
The South African labour market is flexible as it is the eighth least regulated of 130 nations surveyed by the World Bank, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. Mdladlana said businesses in South Africa faced fewer labour regulations than their counterparts in Ireland, Switzerland or Australia.
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/ 11 October 2003
Six lions will be released into the wild near in South Africa’s Western Cape province within the next two months, 150 years after a hunter shot the last free lion in the region.
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/ 11 October 2003
The two unions who threatened to down tools at the SABC have both accepted the public broadcaster’s wage offer. The Media Workers’ Association of South Africa (Mwasa) said on Friday it had accepted the SABC’s 8,55% offer and had officially called off the strike.