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/ 11 January 2008
Tax collectors from 39 countries around the world meeting in an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-sponsored conference on Friday agreed to support a further conference specifically on taxation in Africa. The conference will be hosted by the South African Revenue Service, and will take place in May this year.
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/ 11 January 2008
United States President George Bush arrived in Kuwait on Friday to rally the support of Arab allies against what he calls the Iranian "threat" after making a bold prediction for Middle East peace. Bush flew in aboard <i>Air Force One</i> after his first presidential trip to the Holy Land, where he said he believed a peace treaty would be signed within a year.
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/ 11 January 2008
Tutsi rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday rejoined a peace conference aimed at ending long-running conflict in the east, a day after suspending their participation over security concerns. The rebels’ leader, renegade General Laurent Nkunda, told Reuters he was ready if necessary to take part in the meeting.
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/ 11 January 2008
The risk for load shedding remains high on Friday, said Eskom. ”Eskom is currently not load shedding as it is able to meet the demand for electricity. However, the risk remains high for the rest of the day.” Eskom said load shedding would be implemented at very short notice if unexpected problems arose.
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/ 11 January 2008
A drunken Australian man who took a nap between railway tracks has had a miraculous escape after he was run over by a freight train and received only minor injuries and a bump on the head. The 20-year-old, whose name was not released, fell asleep at a level crossing at Port Augusta, in South Australia state, newspapers said on Friday.
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/ 11 January 2008
A uranium mining project by an Australian firm due to begin in northern Malawi next year will boost the country’s exports by 25%, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a new country report released this week, the IMF said the -million project by mining firm Paladin could add up to 10% of the Southern African country’s overall GDP and 25% to exports.
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/ 11 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) needs to get back to the business of government, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. He said politicians might all be talking in hushed tones about competing centres of power, but most South Africans ”are fretting about rising food prices and high interest rates”.
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/ 11 January 2008
Zimbabwe has drafted in soldiers to help move food aid and medicines to hundreds of flood victims in the north of the country, reports said on Friday. An army vehicle and army personnel are in Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central province, where several hundreds of villagers were displaced by floods in December, the Herald said.
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/ 11 January 2008
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) on Friday called for the government to regulate bread prices. Rising bread prices were hurting the poor and the unemployed the most, according to Rodney Lentit, the ID’s local government liaison officer. Bread prices were deregulated in 1991.
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/ 11 January 2008
More than 100 000 Chinese died in workplace accidents last year, including on the roads and railways, but the figure was down one tenth from 2006, a senior official said on Friday. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said 101 480 people died, but that government education and publicity campaigns were paying off.