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/ 11 November 2002
Last week, with the Cricket World Cup three months away, South Africa discovered the rather disturbing fact that its sports minister does not give ”a shit” about three-quarters of the national squad. This while his counterparts in other cricketing countries are geeing up their troops.
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/ 11 November 2002
South African financial services firm Alexander Forbes drew strength from its diverse business interests to post earnings in line with expectations on Monday, although the mix of contributions was not as forecast.
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/ 11 November 2002
At least a fifth of South African households are hit by crime every year, but it is highly unlikely that those responsible will be brought to book. Of the criminals who do go to jail, however, a high percentage will leave in coffins.
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/ 11 November 2002
The South African bourse slipped at the start on Monday, as rand hedge and some gold stocks felt the brunt of a firm rand and a rally in financial stocks fizzled out, dealers said.
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/ 11 November 2002
South Africa’s rand slipped against the dollar on Monday, consolidating back into a new range after weeks of solid gains, traders said.
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/ 11 November 2002
Retief Goosen of South Africa retained the European Order of Merit title Sunday — the European money title — after shooting a final round of level-par 71 in the Volvo Masters at Valderrama.
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/ 10 November 2002
South Africa’s government has not yet received a formal request to extradite Symbionese Liberation Army leader James Kilgore to the United States, Justice Ministry representative Paul Setsetse said on
Saturday.
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/ 9 November 2002
The leader and last remaining member of the Symbionese
Liberation Army — a radical group that committed politically motivated crimes in the United States in the 1970s — was arrested in Cape Town on Friday evening.
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/ 9 November 2002
Should the Springboks fail to win any of their three tests on the current European Tour it won’t be because of any racial disharmony unlike the Hollywood-style sheen they gave to their 1995 World Cup triumph.