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/ 8 November 2002
Review: <i>Lien Botha</i>
by Ashraf Jamal
(Taxi/David Krut)
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/ 8 November 2002
Tara’s Halls always looked some way off top class during his racing career — but he has certainly been a revelation at stud. Already the sire of grade-one winner De Los Rios and Cape champion juvenile Dance Of Diamonds, his reputation could be further enhanced in the R125 000 grade-two Odessa Fillies Championship over 1 […]
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/ 8 November 2002
Progressive politics ought to be about hope: that we can create a fairer society where everyone can make the most of their potential. Yet the prevailing mood on the left is despair. Globalisation, many believe, is leading the world to rack and ruin.
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/ 8 November 2002
The rand has completed one of its best weeks in recent months by maintaining its value at below the R10 to the dollar level, with analysts expecting the good performance to last for the foreseeable future.
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/ 8 November 2002
At the end of the unprecedented legal challenge to his right to choose his brides, King Mswati secured the hand of 18-year-old Zena Mahlangu as his fiancee. As the girl’s mother pressed to get her daughter back the royal house expedited the rituals of betrothal.
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/ 8 November 2002
The Treasury this week asked the Department of Social Development for an explanation of allegations of corruption and fraud after the closure of hundreds of poverty relief projects in Gauteng.
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/ 8 November 2002
Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour wants transformation charters for cricket and other sports by the middle of next year to avoid having to legislate racial transformation. This was confirmed by his spokesperson Graham Abrahams, who said legislation would be the last resort.
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/ 8 November 2002
Angelina Zenani is a godsend for the people of New Crossroads outside Cape Town, where she runs community projects aimed at improving the standard of living in a burgeoning township plagued by unemployment and abject poverty.
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/ 8 November 2002
Under the banner ”Making South Africa work for you”, a New National Party federal congress this weekend is set to tout the cooperation pact with the ruling African National Congress as a way of giving minorities a voice in South Africa.
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/ 8 November 2002
In the river at Capembe women do the laundry and children splash around while the cattle take a drink and the men dig for diamonds. Fernando Jose Palanca puts down his pickaxe and stops for a break on top of the hill of grey mud that he and his colleagues have dug up from the river bed.