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/ 17 January 2003
In his report to the African National Congress’s conference in December, President Thabo Mbeki implored members of his party to become the front-line "cadres" in the quest to "defeat the networks of corruption" threatening the reconstruction and development of South African society.
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/ 17 January 2003
Dumisani Makhaye must be feeling that sometimes his words can come back to haunt him. The ANC NEC member has been going around telling disgruntled Eastern Cape ANC members to accept the national leadership’s decision to dissolve the provincial structures.
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/ 17 January 2003
They say no good deed goes unpunished and, boy, sometimes one has to keep learning this lesson the hard way. To explain: eight years ago, as editor of Wisden, I first proposed the idea of a simple and comprehensible Test match world championship.
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/ 17 January 2003
Fresh from winning the South African Open last week, Trevor Immelman shot an opening-round three-under-par 69 on the first morning of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Houghton on Thursday.
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/ 17 January 2003
A Zimbabwean coalition of civic and political groups on Thursday vowed to hold widespread anti-government demonstrations ahead of next month’s World Cup cricket matches. Six of the 54 World Cup cricket matches are due to be held in Zimbabwe in February and March.
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/ 17 January 2003
Reality doesn’t come much more real than being smacked in the face by Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.
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/ 17 January 2003
If you fail to prepare then prepare to fail, or so the self-help books say. Perhaps Kim Clijsters has been reading them lately for she certainly appears determined to be the best-prepared woman in the Australian Open.
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/ 16 January 2003
Two international legal fact-finding missions were meeting Swaziland’s justice minister Chief Mawene Simelane on Thursday morning at the start of their enquiries into the state of the country’s justice system.
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/ 16 January 2003
The commercial banana has such a narrow genetic base that within a decade the plant could be wiped out by two fungal diseases that are rampaging through Central America, Africa and Asia, the New Scientist says.