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/ 9 February 2003
Wasim Akram is in the twilight of his career, but even at a ripe 37 there is still a lot of fight in the old warhorse. His legend is the stuff of a Bollywood script. Ball tampering, match fixings and broken friendships mark his illustrious career. But Wasim has survived them all, and is still grinning and smirking at the end of his career. He will retire on his own terms, not those laid down by others.
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/ 8 February 2003
The future of the Afrikaner was assured because he was starting to integrate with a larger, inclusive Afrikaans-speaking community in which race was playing a lesser role or none.
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/ 8 February 2003
A 9-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet on Thursday while she was with her parents on the balcony of a block of flats in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, police said on Friday.
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/ 8 February 2003
President Laurent Gbagbo urged his war-divided country to give a peace accord a chance, dismissing fears by some supporters that it gives too much power to rebels.
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/ 8 February 2003
The main state witness in the treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had a record of ”meddling” in foreign politics going back to the US presidential vote in 1980, defence attorney George Bizos said on Friday.
Tsvangirai’s shady accuser
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/ 8 February 2003
One of the world’s largest chicken producers, which is a key supplier to McDonald’s, is on trial in Tennessee accused of conspiracy to import illegal workers, mainly from Mexico, to work at its plants throughout America.
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/ 8 February 2003
The chief weapons inspectors arrive in Baghdad today confident they can win concessions from the Iraqi government, but concerned they may be offered too little, too late to prevent a war.
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/ 8 February 2003
Shock: About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated 219 660 Aids-related deaths in 2000, according to projections by the Human Sciences Research Council.
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/ 8 February 2003
It must be the new presidential jet that’s doing it. As he started travelling around the globe in his Boeing, Thabo Mbeki was going through another metamorphosis. He has now emerged from his chrysalis as one of the world’s collossi.
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/ 8 February 2003
The star state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has a trail of broken contracts and legal battles that include abortive grain "deals" with two African countries. Menashe was accused of taking $2,6-million for maize without supplying grain.