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/ 8 November 2002

Tara could have the Touch

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

A choice, not an imposition

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

A blow to women’s rights

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

Unita resumes diamond mining

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.