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/ 9 February 2003
The first African opera, based on the life story of a Zulu princess who chronicled in song the brutalities of British colonialism, opened here last week to huge acclaim, not least from star guest, Nelson Mandela.
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/ 9 February 2003
The United Nations’ chief weapons inspectors hailed new discussions with Iraqi officials in Baghdad yesterday as ‘very substantial’ following more than four hours of talks billed as a final opportunity for Iraq to avoid war.
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/ 9 February 2003
Two people have been charged with looting wreckage from the space shuttle Columbia. The arrests are the first to be made in Nacogdoches County since the expiry on Friday of the authorities’ amnesty for individuals who had collected, and kept, spaceship debris.
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/ 9 February 2003
The first World Cup (or at least the first World Cup as we’d recognise it today) took place not in 1975, but in 1973, culminating in a final at Edgbaston where England beat Australia by 92 runs. It took men’s cricket another two years to catch up to their female counterparts, but they got there in the end.
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/ 9 February 2003
The England cricket team is set to honour its fixture against Zimbabwe in Harare on Thursday following a day of intense behind-the-scenes discussions with security and cricket officials on Saturday.
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/ 9 February 2003
Whatever the temptation to be cynical about a R30-million sound, light and dance spectacular as a prelude to a cricket tournament, Saturday night’s 2003 World Cup opening ceremony went a long way towards dispelling notions of unnecessary extravagance.
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/ 9 February 2003
As the countdown to the start of the World Cup continued in Cape Town on Saturday, South African captain Shaun Pollock conceded that he’d had a few sleepless hours during the week leading up to South Africa’s opening match against the West Indies at Newlands on Saturday.
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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.