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The Commonwealth is threatening to split along racial lines over the continuing controversy of whether the organisation should extend Zimbabwe’s suspension.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=11037">Sigh… still no decision on England match</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=11002&t=1">Zimbabwe decision ducked</a><br>
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/ 11 February 2003
Platinum mining will create employment for the foreseeable future and gold mining appears to have stemmed the haemorrhaging of jobs of the past six years, figures from Department of Minerals and Energy suggest. This in a week when platinum touched a high of $698 an ounce.
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/ 11 February 2003
Zimbabwe, as I allowed myself to imagine in the final days before I went there, would be rowdy and in the terrifying grip of a barbaric militia, brandishing long knives. In my imagination there were images of thousands of frail Zimbabweans thronging the city streets and villages.
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/ 11 February 2003
So it seems like al-Qaeda muffed it again. It is extraordinary that the president of the US should be inclined to spend so much time, money and energy on trying to snuff out an outfit with the organisational capacity of Laurel and Hardy.
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/ 11 February 2003
Buthelezi’s defiance of apartheid is what eventually caused the demise of the system, writes MP and national IFP spokesman Musa Zondi.
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/ 11 February 2003
It is a darkening Saturday evening in Baghdad. The shops are closing and the roads are blocked with traffic. In the north-east of the city a group of friends has gathered at a small, whitewashed theatre. On the stage a small orchestra sits on in a semi-circle around their conductor.
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/ 11 February 2003
Seven kids are swept to their deaths on a skiing trip. Seven astronauts are lost when a space shuttle breaks up over the United States. Only one story captures world attention. Why?
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/ 11 February 2003
Seventeen-year-old Tina twisted the strap of her handbag as she told how she was assaulted by soldiers in Cabinda. ”They said, ‘If you run away, I’ll kill you.’ They took me to the barracks, sent me to a room there. The commandant pushed me on to the bed and started beating me”.
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/ 11 February 2003
Australian spin bowler Shane Warne is to return home on Tuesday after being informed that he had tested positive for a prohibited substance.
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/ 11 February 2003
In 60 days the United Nations inspectors charged with hunting down Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons have carried out 300 inspections at more than 230 different sites, including universities, military bases, presidential sites and private homes.