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/ 22 August 2003

Another triumph for expediency

If Idi Amin had wanted to time his death in order to give an erect finger to what we are assured is a looming African renaissance, he couldn’t have done it better. There are some who say such a renaissance is already upon us, but in a cruelly mutated anatomy.

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/ 22 August 2003

‘Sick and tired’ of arms row

Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) moved to close, once and for all, its chapter on the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal — and to reaffirm its own integrity. It will table a resolution in the National Assembly insisting on Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s integrity — and officially dismissing media reports that the final arms report was edited.

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/ 22 August 2003

Boeremag trial delayed once more

The prosecution’s plans to call its first witness in the Boeremag treason trial next week were thwarted on Friday when defence lawyers said they would bring yet more pre-trial applications.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19279">Boeremag accused want separate trials</a>

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/ 22 August 2003

Working class ‘undermined’

The emergence of a black bourgeoisie in South Africa is compromising the national democratic movement, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has charged. And there are ”forces” within the [democratic] movement not supportive of the interests of the working class.