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/ 6 December 2002
Solar eclipses mean different things to different people — a mystical natural phenomenon to New Age hippies, a fascinating scientific event to amateur astronomers. But for the people of the isolated Karoo town of Sutherland, an eclipse means jobs.
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/ 6 December 2002
Edwin Castro has many of the typical personality traits of a chief whip, which is the position he currently holds for the Sandinista National Liberation Front. He is warm, charming, mischievous and full of you know what.
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/ 6 December 2002
Trade unions and communist leaders have launched a combined counter-attack on what they describe as an ”authoritarian clique” in the African National Congress led by President Thabo Mbeki and including two Cabinet ministers.
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/ 6 December 2002
Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik, the arms magnate that the Scorpions want to question about the deputy president’s alleged demand for a R500 000-a-year bribe, have been close since struggle days.
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/ 6 December 2002
The South African Football Association (Safa) has complained that it was not consulted about the compilation of a list of events to be broadcast by free-to-air channels only.
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/ 6 December 2002
The Cabinet this week gave its official backing to the deployment of a top-level management team to overhaul government and social delivery in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 6 December 2002
The battle of the sexes rages on. I realised this when I was left wallowing in that Freudian cusp of libidinal frustrations by a woman with as much ethics as a beer bottle. Like two inebriated adolescents after a matric dance ball, my partner and I got into heavy petting.
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/ 6 December 2002
Relations between Cosatu and the clique within the ANC that seems hell-bent on breaking up the tripartite alliance seems to have reached an all-time low, if the kindergarten level of insults being traded is anything to go by.
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/ 6 December 2002
Lights have been burning late in the European Union Council of Ministers building the last few nights as diplomats have scrabbled to conclude complex negotiations leading to the largest expansion in the club’s history.
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/ 6 December 2002
In an interview that could have been a scene from the film the Madness of King George, Namibian President Sam Nujoma spoke to the German newspaper Die Welt.