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/ 5 February 2003
In the course of Zimbabwe’s painful road to total disintegration, the South African authorities have consistently chanted the mantra that things are getting better.
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/ 5 February 2003
The strengthening of the rand and falling output herald "nasty" times ahead for South Africa’s gold mining industry. Three of the four largest gold producers this week reported an earnings crash, while the largest, AngloGold, predicted a rough six months ahead.
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/ 5 February 2003
Pieter Rossouw has grown up. The boy who apparently made it all up as he went along is now 31 and last Saturday, as the result of a crippling injury list, he captained the Stormers to a one-point win against the Chiefs at Newlands.
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/ 5 February 2003
Finir en beauté is a charming French phrase, much used in the pages of L’Equipe, which means to end your career in such a manner as to leave behind nothing but a memory of you at your best.
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/ 5 February 2003
It was the moment that Madrid’s football-crazy females had been waiting for. As Manchester United’s players emerged from their hotel, a gaggle of girls surged forward.
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/ 5 February 2003
Golden Arrows, one of three KwaZulu-Natal teams in the Premier Soccer League (PSL), first displayed their enterprising brand of soccer in the top flight three years ago.
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/ 5 February 2003
Imagine a club where there is more farce in the off-field antics than an average Carry On film, the dressing-room politics would shame ancient Rome and the back four appear to be the Keystone Cops of premiership defending.
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/ 5 February 2003
Time is not on the side of teams in the relegation zone, who have three or fewer games remaining to prove that they are premiership material.
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/ 5 February 2003
Ten days before the official celebrations to mark the change of president in Burundi the capital suffered an unprecedented bombardment by the rebel group supposedly committed to the transition process.
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/ 5 February 2003
They say that no person is bigger than the game, but Vernon Pugh, who died last Thursday, came pretty close to bucking the cliché. For the best part of a decade, he truly was lord and master of rugby union.