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/ 14 December 2002
Whatever her failings, however dire her official felonies, there can be no reasonable excuse for the continuing and malicious attacks on Professor Norma Reid Birley, until recently vice-chancellor of Wits University.
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/ 14 December 2002
Diamond giant De Beers had joined hands with the upmarket retailer Louis Vuitton to open a chain of exclusive jewellery shops operating under the De Beers-LV brand, but celebrities and socialites were jeered by protesters as they arrived to celebrate the opening of the flagship shop in London.
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/ 14 December 2002
A total of 73 prisoners escaped from the prison in Bizana in the Eastern Cape on Friday. Provincial correctional services commissioner Raphepheng Mataka told Sapa police had rearrested seven of the escapees.
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/ 13 December 2002
When African National Congress members congregate in Stellenbosch this week to discuss the future of the organisation, they will also be making decisions that have a direct effect on the country’s future.
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/ 13 December 2002
Although the ANC remains the dominant political party — and leads the popularity stakes in all nine provinces — its support has declined sharply while the number of people who will not vote in future elections has increased dramatically .
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/ 13 December 2002
The Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) eighth national congress which will decide the leadership of the party for the next three years, starts in Umtata in the Eastern Cape on Friday.
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/ 13 December 2002
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday warned that he will respond to Western hostility against his government by taking a more negative stance against whites in the southern African country.
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/ 13 December 2002
My Big Fat Greek Wedding came from nowhere to become one of the most profitable films ever, right up there with Star Wars, writes Gary Susman.
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/ 13 December 2002
A new exhibition of photographs pays tribute to South Africa’s liberation veterans, writes Ramses Gabriëlse.
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/ 13 December 2002
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has refused to answer questions about whether he met a French defence company executive in Durban on March 11 2000. The Scorpions are investigating whether on that day Zuma met Alain Thetard and Schabir Shaik and made a coded request for a R500 000-a-year bribe.