The first media victory was in the Pretoria high court which ordered that a confidential report on Zimbabwe's 2002 elections be handed to the investigative newspaper, as we'd predicted.
The second is equally significant: It relates to all the tenders that the World Cup Local Organising Committee issued and it looks as if the Mail & Guardian will be poring over volumes of documents to see who was granted what, how much and who benefited around the time the final matches will be played.
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