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/ 8 February 2003
They became an international pastime that was universally understood – "Bushisms", the statements and behavioural oddities of the man who was bidding to become president of the United States. E-mail queues around the world were clogged with George W Bush jokes.
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/ 8 February 2003
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Supachai Panitchpakdi, warned Western nations this week that their failure to agree to a deal on cheap drugs for developing countries could threaten the next round of global trade negotiations.
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/ 8 February 2003
Lemmer believes that women’s organisations – which regularly complain about the lack of media coverage of their efforts – sometimes have only themselves to blame. If you didn’t read much about the International Women’s Forum held in Sandton, don’t blame the media.
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/ 8 February 2003
It’s going to be a family affair at the Harare Sports Club on Monday when first-timers Namibia begin their World Cup campaign against hosts Zimbabwe. Lining up will be the Flower brothers, the Kotze brothers and the Burger brothers, the first instance in World Cup history where three sets of brothers will be involved in one match.
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/ 8 February 2003
Ricky Ponting’s all-conquering Australia are overwhelming favourites to become the first team to successfully defend the cricket World Cup title, according to bookmakers Ladbrokes.
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/ 8 February 2003
The outcome of the appeal by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) against the International Cricket Council’s ruling that it must play its February 13 World Cup match in Zimbabwe is to be announced in Cape Town on Friday night.
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/ 8 February 2003
England should honour its World Cup fixtures in Zimbabwe, Judge Albie Sachs decided on Friday night. The England and Wales Cricket Board had appealed against a decision on Thursday by the ICC Events Technical Committee not to have their fixtures moved from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
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/ 8 February 2003
For all Shaun Pollock’s pedigree as a cricketer -– a pedigree that has provided him with an instinctive, effortless grasp of almost every aspect of the game –- he has never quite settled the debate that sometimes asks whether he really is the best person to captain South Africa.
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/ 7 February 2003
Two National Party politicians facing criminal investigation over alleged golf estate kickbacks today welcomed a raid on their homes by the Scorpions.
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/ 7 February 2003
Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki has described Ethiopia as the ”spoilt child of the world’s superpowers”.