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/ 11 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation quickened to 1Â 098,8% in November from 1Â 070,2% previously, highlighting an eight-year economic recession critics blame on government incompetence. The country’s inflation rate is the highest in the world and is the clearest sign of an economic and political crisis also shown in unemployment above 80%.
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/ 11 December 2006
Somalia’s government on Monday said its stand-off with the country’s powerful Islamic movement posed a ”grave danger” to the region and urged the world to step in and avert a looming all-out conflict. As Islamic and government forces faced off in southern Somalia, the government said a full-scale war in the lawless country would spill across borders.
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/ 11 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises show no sign of abating, Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon said in Cape Town on Monday. ”We would all like to think there could be productive change in Zimbabwe to see all these economic indicators move the other way, but there is no sign of that happening at all,” he told reporters.
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/ 11 December 2006
A 10% participation interest in Namibia’s Northern and Southern offshore blocks has been acquired by the Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA). ”This is consistent with our philosophy of expanding our gas and petroleum interests internationally,” PetroSA chief executive Sipho Mkhize said on Monday in a statement.
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/ 11 December 2006
Eric van Zyl is finally happy with the service from his cellphone provider. He was the first subscriber to switch from his old network to South Africa’s newest operator, Virgin Mobile, taking advantage of the long-awaited mobile number portability (MNP).
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/ 11 December 2006
Why pay for an expensive productivity package like Office when you can use one for free, online, from any Âcomputer? Google is hoping that millions of web users are thinking this — and has begun offering just that.
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/ 11 December 2006
A little more than a year ago cellphone banking was a fad for those who could tell the difference between WAP, WIG and USSD. Now on the brink of mass market uptake, cellphone banking is expected to bring in R650-million in transactions over December for the big four banks.
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/ 11 December 2006
France armed and trained radical militia blamed for most of the killings in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, two Rwandan ex-soldiers told a panel probing alleged French complicity in the massacres on Monday. The pair said French troops had worked closely with the former Rwandan army and members of the Interahamwe militia.
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/ 11 December 2006
If you’re looking for that feature in Microsoft Word or Excel and you can’t remember where you originally found it, you’re not alone. About 80% of feature requests from users already exist in Office, says Cyril Belikoff, information worker business group manager for Microsoft South Africa.
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/ 11 December 2006
A United Nations mission to be led by South Africa’s Desmond Tutu to probe last month’s deaths of 19 civilians in Gaza under Israeli shelling has been called off because Israel did not authorise the trip, a spokesperson said on Monday. The Nobel Peace laureate had other engagements and could not wait any longer for Israeli permission, she added.