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/ 25 October 2002
In his novel, The Chateau, set in France in 1945, the American writer William Maxwell delicately explored the relationship between a young American couple, Harold and Barbara Rhodes, and the Europeans they encounter on a trip just after the end of the war.
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/ 25 October 2002
Neither the DA nor the NNP can convincingly claim a victory after the three-week municipal defection period. The real winner is the ANC.
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/ 25 October 2002
Revelations of cheating and the theft of exam papers is casting a pall over end-of-year exams at South Africa’s largest distance learning technikon, Technikon South Africa. The integrity of the technikon’s 2002 exams have been severely compromised.
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/ 25 October 2002
The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) member unions boycotted President Thabo Mbeki’s stakeholders’ forum at the Sandton Convention Centre last week, complaining that the federation itself had not been invited.
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/ 25 October 2002
Elections for the African National Congress leadership in Limpopo could be hotly contested after the emergence of MEC for Agriculture and Environment Aaron Motsoaledi as a rival to provincial Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi.
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/ 25 October 2002
Thank God it’s over. The daily e-mailed "scoresheet", recording the latest tally of NNP "rats", is a thing of the past; the daily gloat from either NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk or his ANC counterparts a footnote of history.
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/ 25 October 2002
Bed and breakfast establishments in South Africa have come a long way. In the old days the guest was given a converted cupboard or the room of a teenager who had just left home, complete with dirty socks still under the bed. Then there was a long traipse down the passage to the bathroom.
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/ 25 October 2002
A wise man once said that while horses and dogs were capable of running to form, you should never bet money on human beings. Those who kept their money in their pockets ahead of last week’s Currie Cup semifinals are the true descendants of that sage.
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/ 25 October 2002
African leaders at a summit on Wednesday chose Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema to coordinate talks between the government and rebels in Cote d’Ivoire, which has been split in two by a month-long uprising.
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/ 25 October 2002
The government urgently needs to clarify how the huge costs of merging tertiary institutions will be met, say the heads of the country’s universities and technikons. They also remain sceptical that mergers will achieve the government’s education policy goals.