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Security at all Gauteng public hospitals will be reviewed, the province’s health department said on Tuesday, after the alleged rape of a terminally ill elderly woman in her hospital bed in a gynaecological ward at the Pretoria Academic hospital. The patient’s subsequent death was probably more to blame on her illness than the attack, the department said.
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/ 9 February 2005
At least 20 people, among them many children, were killed in Angola and scores more injured after a truck ploughed into a crowd of carnival revellers on Tuesday, Angolan media reported. The accident, in the city of Lubango in southern Huila province, happened when the vehicle appeared to lose control of its brakes.
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/ 9 February 2005
Catching up with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel said on Tuesday it will ship a desktop PC microprocessor that can handle significantly larger chunks of data than most of today’s chips. The new 600-series Pentium 4s are the first Intel desktop chips that support a technology called 64-bit memory addressability.
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/ 9 February 2005
South African cricket coach Ray Jennings said on Tuesday that he will apply for the position of coach if the players want him to. The position of coach is to be advertised later this week. Jennings was originally appointed on a short-term basis, until after the tour of the West Indies in March.
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Dynamos striker Sandile Ndlovu is anxious to wear the Bafana Bafana jersey for the first time against Australia in their friendly match in Durban on Wednesday night. The 24-year-old Ndlovu, who is on loan to Dynamos from Mamelodi Sundowns, is the only new Bafana Bafana recruit included in the team.
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Three wickets apiece for the Conrad XI’s (read Highveld Lions) David Terbrugge and Garnett Kruger did the most to restrict a Cook XI (read Highveld Strikers) to 230 for seven, and eventually help their team to a five-wicket victory — according to the Duckworth-Lewis method — in their 45-over friendly played at the Wanderers on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2005
Phil Mickelson keeps everyone guessing. Three years ago, he defiantly said he would never change his risk-taking, jaw-dropping style on the golf course, even if that meant never winning a major. Last year, he was so determined to keep his tee shots in the short grass that he went to a controlled fade off the tee, although that meant giving up distance.
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/ 9 February 2005
Former All Blacks manager Andrew Martin on Wednesday claimed New Zealand rugby’s binge-drinking culture threatens to undermine the national team’s physical conditioning. Martin, a former colonel with the Special Air Services, said he was astounded by the amount of drinking among the All Blacks when he was the team’s manager.
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/ 9 February 2005
Howard Dean, who crashed out of last year’s race for the White House with his now infamous ”I have a scream” speech, was poised on Tuesday for a political comeback as chairperson of the Democratic national committee. The former governor of Vermont owes his comeback to his prowess as a fundraiser, and to his ability to mobilise the Democratic base.
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/ 9 February 2005
For the players it is hardly ideal preparation for a major football international: they are guarded round the clock against attacks from extremists, have to don disguises on their rare trips outside their hotel, and are banned from watching TV. But this is no ordinary football match.