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/ 9 March 2003

Lessons from imperial history

Britain’s 1879 invasion of the Zulu kingdom and the looming US war against Iraq have much in common. A closer examination of what happened in the South African past, of how the exercise of imperial violence shaped South Africa, does enable us to understand the present more clearly

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/ 9 March 2003

A dove in hawk’s feathers

I could probably be described — if the mixed and confused metaphors can be forgiven — as something of a dove in hawk’s feathers. Which is to say that after many hours listening to the debate, I wish to heck they would get on with it. It is surely time to go to war, writes David Beresford.

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/ 9 March 2003

Ponting makes no excuses for the body line

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is convinced that whoever has the biggest guns will win any World Cup duel. After Australia extended its unbeaten stretch in World Cups to 14 matches with a 96-run demolition of Sri Lanka in the opening Super Six match, Ponting said he’d instructed his fast bowlers to be ruthless.