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/ 15 November 2002
Fulton Allem hasn’t changed that much. He says ”partner” a lot more than ”boet”, the legacy of spending the majority of his life in the United States. He talks of the ”North Eastern Transvaal”, and still loves Phalaborwa, where he wants to retire to a game farm on the Olifants river. And he still knows how to put on a show.
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/ 15 November 2002
Rudolf Straeuli’s reaction to South Africa’s performance against France last week is typical of the man. No conciliatory talk about processes and the difficulties of end-of-season tours, just a frank admission that it wasn’t good enough, followed by a swinging axe.
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/ 14 November 2002
A new diagnostic device that can detect HIV in as little as 20 minutes has received government approval in the United States.
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/ 14 November 2002
A study in the Northern Cape has found there is no truth in the myth that babies are raped because of a belief that HIV can be cured by sex with a virgin. The study was done in Galeshewe, in Kimberley, Northern Cape, where the population is 90,4% African and 8,4% coloured.
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/ 14 November 2002
All Blacks scoring machine Andrew Mehrtens said on Wednesday he hoped France would be at the receiving end of a similar performance from New Zealand in Saturday’s one-off test as they produced on Armistice Day in 2000.
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/ 14 November 2002
Rape is a largely risk-free activity in South Africa, says a shock internal government study in the possession of the Mail & Guardian. The study finds that only 7,7% of reported rapes in 2000 resulted in convictions.
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/ 14 November 2002
With 12 gangs of dockers working back-to-back 12-hour shifts, critical congestion in the Durban port looks set to be cleared by the mid-month deadline, port sources said this week. But government plans to concession Durban’s operations are heading for stormy waters.
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/ 14 November 2002
An opinion poll taken across the United States just before this week’s mid-term elections found US voters split down the middle between Republicans and Democrats. The voters are almost as equally divided on whether their country is heading in the right direction or not.
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/ 14 November 2002
University of Durban-Westville principal Mapule Ramashala faces a potentially heavy tax bill following the exposure of a questionable offshore tax scheme set up for her by accounting firm Deloitte & Touche.