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/ 1 February 2002

De Kock’s trio set the standard

Mike de Kock has propelled himself into a lead of almost R2-million on the trainers’ championship log by reeling in the big feature races during the Cape summer season. On Saturday the likeable Gauteng-based conditioner makes a three-pronged assault on the R1-million J&B Met over 2 000m at Kenilworth that is likely to strike fear […]

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/ 1 February 2002

Crackdown on crotches cuts no ice

Harry Pearson Ice skating has a reputation as a sport beloved of old ladies. The International Skating Union (ISU) fights hard to keep it that way. Over the past five years the sport’s governing body has taken action against male skaters displaying chest and underarm hair, women wearing form-hugging unitards and men donning tights, the […]

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/ 31 January 2002

SA’s economy at risk from stagnation

PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE economy in South Africa, as other emerging markets, has taken knocks after last year’s attacks in the United States and amid fears of global recession, but the worries here are stagnation in growth and employment rather than an Argentina-style crisis. The rand sharply depreciated against key world currencies in […]

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/ 31 January 2002

Mugabe is practicing ‘state terrorism’

Copenhagen, Harare | Thursday AS Denmark signalled it’s intention to cut aid to Zimbabwe, and other nations maintained by ‘dictators’, Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge slammed the European Union and the Commonwealth for threatening sanctions, accusing the bodies of perpetuating “an archaic colonial relationship”. Mudenge’s comments were the first official government reaction to an EU […]

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/ 31 January 2002

IRAQ, SUDAN AIM TO SET UP FREE TRADE ZONE

IRAQ and Sudan aim to set up a free trade zone, Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mahdi Saleh said Monday at the start of a visit by Sudanese Foreign Trade Minister Abdel Hamid Mussa. “The creation of a free trade zone between Iraq and Sudan and the means to expand commercial cooperation between the two brotherly […]

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/ 31 January 2002

IFP ASKS N-PROV TO SUPPLY NEVIRAPINE

The Inkatha Freedom Party appealed to the Northern Cape government on Wednesday to supply the anti-retroviral drug Nevirapine to state hospitals in the province. “It is morally unjustifiable to withhold anti-retrovirals from pregnant mothers and their unborn children. “Withholding can be seen as a crime against humanity and our future generation,” provincial IFP leader Hennie […]