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/ 16 February 2004
South African underwater hockey has lost one of its most valued players in a drowning accident on Saturday. Morkel Swart (22) was a member of the team that will represent South Africa at the World Underwater Hockey Championships to be held in New Zealand in March and April 2004.
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/ 16 February 2004
New Zealand’s batsmen are targeting South African bowler Shaun Pollock in Tuesday’s second one-day international staged on a pitch famous for producing run-feasts. Black Caps skipper Stephen Fleming says his side will mount a full-scale assault on the Proteas’ Pollock as the New Zealanders seek to level the six-match series.
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/ 16 February 2004
England defender John Terry is confident Chelsea can bounce back from their FA Cup defeat to Arsenal and beat the Gunners in next weekend’s Premiership rematch. Arsenal’s 2-1 fifth-round win at Highbury ensured Chelsea have now been eliminated from the competition by the Gunners over four consecutive seasons.
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/ 15 February 2004
A tanker truck carrying diesel fuel collided with a packed minibus and burst into flames on a Ugandan road, killing at least 32 people, police said on Sunday. The tanker was travelling toward Kampala when a car heading in the opposite direction tried to overtake slower-moving vehicles and slammed into the truck.
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/ 15 February 2004
Gay and lesbian couples from across the United States answered the city of San Francisco’s Valentine’s Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent conservative groups scrambling for court intervention.
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/ 15 February 2004
Rescue and relief efforts were under way in remote areas of northern Pakistan on Sunday after a powerful earthquake killed at least 20 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. The quake, measuring 5,7 on the Richter scale, struck at 10.30am GMT on Saturday and was followed by an aftershock measuring 5,5.
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/ 15 February 2004
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The Democratic Alliance list of candidates for the 2004 election, to be contested on April 14, holds some surprises and a few predictable placements. DA leader Tony Leon predictably heads the Gauteng national list, followed by sitting MPs Ian Davidson, Richard Ntuli, Janet Semple and Chief Whip Douglas Gibson.
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/ 15 February 2004
African leaders ended their summit in Rwanda on Saturday having adopted a unique peer review system aimed at allowing countries on the continent to judge the behaviour of fellow African states. ”The most important point is that we can now start evaluation,” Mozambican President Joachim Chissano said.
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/ 15 February 2004
South Africa’s Deputy President Jacob Zuma promised Mozambicans on Saturday that the truth about an air crash that claimed the life of their communist leader Samora Machel in 1986 would be uncovered. Machel died when the plane he was travelling in crashed in northern South Africa on October 19 1986.