Already, the Street is pouring cold water on the notion that Hewlett-Packard might find buyers for its troubled Autonomy and EDS units.

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The court heard Smallwood's offences included throwing a woman in her 90s on to a bed and pouring cold water over an elderly man who had previously suffered a stroke.

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Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".

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