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/ 1 February 2003
With as much secrecy as the Pentagon, the United Nations has been busily counting the likely casualty toll of a war on Iraq. While the Pentagon focuses on its troops, the network of UN specialist agencies is trying to estimate what would happen to Iraqis.
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/ 1 February 2003
Now we may get to see the true face of Ariel Sharon. His crushing victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning has given the Israeli people, and the wider world, a chance at last to see what this man really wants.
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/ 1 February 2003
In a sport famous for its familiarity with initials the letters GCC will mean little to most cricket fans. But those who run the world game know all about it. It is the Global Cricket Corporation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned company that won the marketing rights for the World Cup.
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/ 1 February 2003
Suddenly, South African horseracing has a new superstar. Eventuail’s victory in the Summer Cup in December was a performance that moved him right into the top echelon of horses to race in this country.
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/ 1 February 2003
The weather is good, the track is lush and green, tent town and the picnic areas are abuzz and it is all systems go for Saturday’s J&B Met meeting at Kenilworth.
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/ 1 February 2003
One way of looking at it is to remember that it would hardly be a World Cup if it wasn’t dogged by political and financial wrangles. The 1979 tournament took place in the aftermath of Kerry Packer’s war with the cricket establishment and the Australian board hadn’t forgiven those who signed up with Packer.
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/ 31 January 2003
A court in Mozambique on Friday sentenced six men accused of murdering a prominent investigative journalist to between 23 and 28 years in prison.
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/ 31 January 2003
Former Cape Town mayor Peter Marais has been cleared of making damaging homophobic statements by the Public Protector.
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/ 31 January 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has been drawn into the row over the threatened eviction of parliamentary journalists from the central precincts of the South African Parliament, after the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) appealed to him to intervene.
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/ 31 January 2003
The dirty war in the New National Party is expected to escalate when former deputy minister David Malatsi and former Western Cape premier Peter Marais appear before a party disciplinary hearing over corruption in a controversial golf development with apparent Mafia connections.