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/ 26 December 2005
Firefighters were still combating a brush fire at Melkbosstrand on Monday afternoon, Cape Town’s chief fire officer, Piet Smith, said. About 200 shacks were destroyed in a fire in an informal settlement at Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats on Monday morning, disaster-management services spokesperson John Brown said.
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/ 26 December 2005
Cape Town residents were asked on Monday to use water sparingly after the city’s main pipeline burst. The pipe — 1,6m in diameter — feeds water to the city’s reservoirs from the Voëlsvlei dam, said City of Cape Town spokesperson Charles Cooper. More than 30 years old, there are bursts on the pipeline every now and then, he said.
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/ 26 December 2005
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting thrilled a festive, 71 910-strong Boxing Day crowd in Melbourne and cashed in on an early ”life” to become only the third batsman to amass 1 500 runs in a Test calendar year before Australia collapsed against South Africa in the second Test on Monday.
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/ 26 December 2005
A 55-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of a six-year-old boy in Plettenberg Bay has confessed to the crime, police said on Monday. Inspector Elgin Antonie said the man confessed on Christmas Day. He was arrested on Christmas Eve.
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/ 26 December 2005
The yellow card that Irish referee Alan Lewis wielded to send three All Blacks to the sin bin in last month’s rugby Test against England has been given a final resting place in New Zealand. Lewis has agreed to donate both the card and his match whistle, as well as his referees’ jersey, to the New Zealand Rugby Museum.
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/ 26 December 2005
Everton boss David Moyes is hoping striker Duncan Ferguson will see out the rest of the season. Moyes recently admitted the 34-year-old striker is considering whether to hang up his boots early in the new year. Ferguson is contracted to stay at Goodison Park until the end of the season, but has been struggling with his fitness.
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/ 26 December 2005
Ricky Ponting and Matt Hayden shared a 152-run stand to nullify South Africa’s early breakthrough on Monday, lifting Australia to 162 for two at tea on day one of the second cricket Test. Ponting won the toss, decided Australia would bat first on a moist pitch and then joined Hayden at the crease in the third over.
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/ 26 December 2005
Zambia shut down its biggest hydro-electric power station on Sunday after a major landslide caused by heavy rains, an official announced. Heavy rains swept through the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydroelectric Power Project and caused a landslide that could have destroyed the machinery at the project.
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/ 26 December 2005
Libya’s Supreme Court on Sunday ordered a retrial for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for their alleged role in infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. The decision overturned death sentences that would have been carried out by firing squad.
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/ 26 December 2005
A year after the tsunami laid waste to Aceh, tens of thousands of people still live in a vast archipelago of townships made of scrap wood spit back by the sea. Along the coast of the Indonesian province, little remains of villagers but swampland and ankle-high rubble.