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/ 15 November 2002
Obituary: Johannes Kerkorrel. In a bizarre echo of the suicide of a lover 10 years ago, the Afrikaans singer Johannes Kerkorrel committed suicide on Tuesday by hanging himself.
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/ 15 November 2002
The word of the hour is empire. As the United States marches to war, no other label quite seems to capture the scope of American power or the scale of its ambition. ”Sole superpower” is accurate enough, but seems oddly modest. But empire is the big one.
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/ 15 November 2002
The lions of Teranga come hunting in South Africa next Tuesday and the prey they stalk is the prestigious Nelson Mandela Inaugural Challenge Cup.
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/ 15 November 2002
Had things gone as planned, Salif Diao would have trotted out in the green of Sedan last Saturday afternoon, side-stepping his side’s wild boar mascot on the touchline ahead of a grim relegation struggle at Montpellier.
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/ 15 November 2002
Financial stocks pushed the South African bourse higher at midday on Friday, buoyed by a stronger rand and improved sentiment on global markets, dealers said.
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/ 15 November 2002
Female friendship in the 21st century is a complex business in comparison with the friendships our mothers enjoyed. We delayed marriage and children, had a variety of different jobs and collected friends the way our mothers collected tea towels.
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/ 15 November 2002
As well as South Africa played at the Wanderers last weekend the most significant development of the week was Daryll Cullinan’s apology.
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/ 15 November 2002
Zimbabwe’s finance minister admitted that drawing up the budget was ”not an easy task” and painted a bleak picture of the current economic situation, with manufacturing, tourism and mining all having registered losses.
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/ 15 November 2002
It was the week the DaimlerChrysler Award came to town. One felt a sense of comfort in the continuity of it. But that’s the thing about corporate involvement in the arts in South Africa. Just when the public feels most secure in the positive face of private-sector promotion, the tide turns. Big companies change their funding strategies, initiatives are abandoned and accolades once bestowed upon artists in company names are rendered meaningless.
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/ 15 November 2002
Early detection: A new diagnostic device that can detect HIV in as little as 20 minutes has received government approval in the United States in what officials described as a major step toward curbing the epidemic.