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/ 2 February 2004
Intel is launching the next generation of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor on Monday, adding more memory to the chip and other features that should allow it to reach record speeds of up to 4 gigahertz by the end of the year.
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/ 2 February 2004
The South African province of the North West was the worst offender in spending or alternatively keeping track of its capital spending of South Africa’s nine provinces. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, the North West housing department spent only 2,6% of its capital expenditure allocation of R390-million.
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/ 2 February 2004
The World Health Organisation said on Sunday that two Vietnamese sisters who died from bird flu might have contracted the disease from their brother, making it the first ”human to human” transmission of the virus in this outbreak. The announcement marks yet another worrying development in the spread of the disease.
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/ 2 February 2004
A inquiry has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo to establish the causes of a fatal accident in which a boat carrying more than 500 people sank after a fire broke out on board, a senior official said on Sunday. About 200 people are still missing following the tragedy, which happened last Monday.
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/ 2 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki should declare war on crime and announce the return of the death penalty when he delivers his state of the nation address this week, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Sunday. Mbeki should commit government to ”concrete actions that will improve the lives of our people”.
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/ 2 February 2004
Over 300 000 legal abortions have been performed since the practice was legalised seven years ago, the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) said at an anti-abortion prayer vigil in Braamfontein on Sunday. The vigil was part of countrywide protests against South Africa’s abortion laws.
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/ 2 February 2004
Tree-lined avenues walled with six-foot stockades and electric fencing in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs hide lush green gardens. What many are not aware of is that a network of Malawian green fingers tends the city’s greenbelt. Samuel Jere is one such carer of the rolling lawns of the City of Gold.
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/ 2 February 2004
The number of Zimbabweans needing food aid has increased to 7,5-million, nearly two-thirds of its population, according to a joint assessment by United Nations experts and Zimbabwean officials published on Sunday. It said there had been a remarkable increase in the number of people going hungry since September, when five million were considered in need of help.
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/ 2 February 2004
MyDoom, one of the fastest-spreading internet worms ever produced, hit its target on Sunday and shut down the American software company SCO’s website by flooding it with millions of requests. Security experts believe a row about software ownership may be behind the attack on the SCO Group.