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/ 11 February 2004
The Sharks have drafted two new front-row players into their squad ahead of the Super 12 rugby series with Lawrence Sephaka moving from the Cats to Durban and Skipper Badenhorst, who played hooker for the Pumas, coming on board. Bulking prop Lawrence Sephaka has played 15 times for South Africa.
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/ 11 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki was misrepresenting facts on HIV/Aids and ”making a mockery of our illness”, Zackie Achmat, chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign, said on Wednesday. Achmat said the president had made some ”serious factual misrepresentations” in a speech on SABC television on Sunday.
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/ 11 February 2004
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hit out at Real Madrid for expressing an interest in French star Thierry Henry. Real coach Carlos Queiroz hinted that Henry and Manchester United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy were his summer targets with Henry the one he would like most.
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/ 11 February 2004
Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour will meet the senior officials of 12 sports federations on Thursday afternoon to discuss their restructuring. This is an attempt to end the bickering and infighting that has reduced many national teams to embarrassment.
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/ 10 February 2004
In a landmark decision with far-reaching constitutional implications businessmen Brett and Roger Kebble and Hennie Buitendag have been granted leave to appeal against an earlier High Court decision saying they had to stand trial on charges relating to a hostile takeover bid of one of their companies.
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/ 10 February 2004
An Iranian plane crashed on Tuesday near an upper-class residential neighbourhood as the Kish Air Fokker 50 prepared to land at Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 people aboard, Emirates officials said. Three survivors were being treated at a local hospital.
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/ 10 February 2004
Consumers are likely to pay less for doctors’ services and come away from hospitals without paying an arm or a leg after the Competition Commission ruled that doctors and hospitals should set their own prices. The commission said on Tuesday an investigation of the health-care sector has found massive price rigging.
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/ 10 February 2004
Malawi’s President Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday said his own brother Dickson died of Aids three years ago, as he launched the country’s first and long-awaited policy on fighting Aids. ”My own brother, third born in our family, died of Aids three years ago,” said Muluzi, who is a strong advocate in the battle against the pandemic.