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/ 7 February 2003
The question of who is responsible for what in Parliament remained unresolved this week, after an unprecedented public spat that put Speaker Frene Ginwala at odds with her own party, the ANC. Parliamentarians suggested that the fight was symptomatic of larger problems.
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/ 7 February 2003
Preliminary results from a survey of the small, micro and medium enterprise sector in Cape Town, Durban and Gauteng show that Durban is South Africa’s ”surfer’s paradise”.
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/ 7 February 2003
In Luanda there are two ways of getting high on Angola’s wealth. You can become an oil executive and work from a penthouse office on Lenin Avenue, gazing beyond the shattered skyline out to sea. Or you can join the street children downtown.
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/ 7 February 2003
A set of 20 lithographs will go on sale today. Costing between R36 000 and R42 000 per copy, they may seem a little expensive for simple line drawings shaded with blocks of colour. But their subject is the notorious former apartheid prison Robben Island, and the artist is Nelson Mandela.
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/ 7 February 2003
France last night signalled continuing European opposition to a US-led war on Iraq, warning bluntly that Washington’s latest evidence against Saddam Hussein was not strong enough to warrant military action.
SA sends Aziz Pahad to Iraq
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/ 7 February 2003
Controversy over the Zimbabwean and Kenyan 2003 World Cup Cricket matches has stolen the limelight in the build-up to event. Yet, economists believe the CWC will have a positive impact on the local currency.
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/ 7 February 2003
South Africa’s gold industry has given the 2003 Cricket World Cup even more glitter. The country’s main gold producing companies — all members of the Chamber of Mines -– donated 54 single ounce 24-carat gold medallions for the toss of each game in the World Cup and 54 solid gold watches for the man of the match award.
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/ 7 February 2003
Locals in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, believe that in a few years’ time cricket might be more popular than their favourite sport — soccer.
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/ 7 February 2003
The investigative noose is tightening around Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Mail & Guardian can reveal.
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/ 7 February 2003
As usual, the yearly gathering of the world’s top business executives and their invited cabal of leading political figures provided a scene of surreal contrasts in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos.