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There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.
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/ 11 December 2007
A settlement has been reached between the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging manufacturer. In a joint statement by Sars and Nampak on Tuesday, the parties said they had agreed to settlement terms to resolve a matter relating to outstanding taxes, which were in dispute for the last two years.
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/ 11 December 2007
Cape Town firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out in an industrial building in Salt River early on Tuesday. Johan Minnie of the city’s disaster management said the fire, which started in the building before spreading to a nearby train station, had finally been contained by late afternoon.
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A Southern African regional tribunal based in Namibia said on Tuesday that it would rule this week on an appeal filed by a white Zimbabwean farmer who was evicted from his land. ”We will deliver a ruling before the end of the week,” Judge Onkemetse Tshosa, president of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal, said.
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A winter storm raging over the Midwestern United States on Tuesday reportedly left two dozen people dead and hundreds of thousands without power, as ice toppled trees and power lines and sent cars skidding off slick roads. Most of the fatalities were reported in Oklahoma, where authorities also said more than 600 000 people were without power.
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Thousands of members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape are expected to strike this week, the union said on Tuesday. Samwu provincial secretary Sphiwo Ndunyana said at least 3 000 municipal workers were expected to down tools on Thursday to hand over a memorandum detailing their concerns.
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At least 32 Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers were killed in Sri Lanka’s north on Tuesday, the military said. ”Sporadic clashes between the Army and the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] broke out south-west of Adampan in Mannar,” said a spokesperson at the media centre for national security.
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The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday laid down some house rules aimed at preventing factionalism ahead of its national conference, at which its new leadership structure is to be elected. The warning comes after heated debate over whether President Thabo Mbeki should continue for another term, or whether party deputy Jacob Zuma should succeed him.
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/ 11 December 2007
Former England soccer manager Steve McClaren fought off tough competition from United States President George Bush to win a dreaded Foot in Mouth award on Tuesday from the Plain English campaign. He was hailed for a supreme example of gobbledegook in talking about star player Wayne Rooney: ”He is inexperienced but he’s experienced in terms of what he’s been through.”
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A crack police team killed 11 would-be robbers and wounded one when it thwarted a cash-in-transit heist on the R101 near the Carousel casino in Limpopo on Tuesday. National police spokesperson Director Phuti Setati said members of the task force had received a tip-off that the men were going to rob a Coin security van at about 11.40am.