Vol.21 No.112

Friday 23 July 2004    

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Zebras pay the penalty for unpreparedness
OF recent our national team has lost some games that were decided by a penalty shootout. This is to say nothing about our poor defence of set pieces, including corner kicks, and failure to cut crosses in the penalty box.

Should Sudan’s el-Bashir chair the AU next year?
MASSACRES in Rwanda and Burundi were regarded, at the time, by other Africans as either genocide or at least “ethnic cleansing”. The invasion of Darfur, by the Jamjaweed, resulting in the probable killing of 30 000 Muslim Black Africans, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands, doesn’t seem to be as disturbing to the AU that replaced the OAU, as Rwanda and Burundi was to Africa, if the communiqué, quoted last week is any indication.

A Government in ‘pepenity’
WE interrupt the ongoing saga at the Nitty Gritty involving goats and the like, to cover an important news conference taking place at this very moment at the Government Enclave.

  

 
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