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<title>EIN News: Africa Inflation News</title>
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<title>Zimbabwe rugby players invade SA as going gets tough back home</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180023879</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 09:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  football counterparts in professional set-ups in South Africa. More than 20 Zimbabwean-born rugby players, including  ...  chairman of Zimbabwe Sevens Rugby, blamed Zimbabwes hyper-inflationary environment for pushing local companies out of  ...
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<title>Exercise in Futility</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180023170</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 09:36 GMT</pubDate>
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... THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called on its members  ...  interest rates to try to rein in inflation. Indeed, none would be more aware of  ...
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<title> Zim to mar SA-EU summit</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180022366</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 09:35 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... South Africa and the European Union hold their first  ...  ruin. The country has the world&apos;s highest inflation rate. Mbeki on the other hand, has  ...
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<title>Africa is far too complex for generalisations: this should be self-evident</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180019960</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 09:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  am concerned about is the claim that African culture has, until recently, been feudal, and  ...  s/he may say we have achieved low inflation, macro-economic stability, a balanced budget and then  ...  There are 53 countries in Africa. In Nigeria alone there are an estimated 250 ethnic  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe rivals fail to show for talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180018460</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the principals had not arrived in South Africa. The negotiations, facing a race against time  ...  against the backdrop of an official annual inflation rate of about 2.2million percent. Economists say  ...
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<title>MOROCCAN GOVT UNVEILS 2008-2012 STRATEGY TO FAE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SITUATION</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180017359</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:56 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  of raw materials and energy, notably oil, Morocco continues to achieve major steps forward at  ...  steps forward at all levels. The North African country needs an innovator private sector to  ...  the minister assured the economic players that inflation will remain under control in a range  ...
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<title>De Beers optimistic about talks with union</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180015904</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:52 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  it was continuing wage talks with South Africas largest mineworkers union in a bid to  ...  and car loans more expensive. South Africas inflation rate is hovering around 11%. Workers across  ...
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<title> Flushing away billions</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180014932</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:42 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  agricultural and economic upheaval and a breakneck inflation rate timed officially at 2.2-million  it  ...  of a blow to the breadbasket. South African hotelier Tourvest, active at the wondrous Victoria  ...  in supplies from across the border in Zambia. In so doing, it has also shattered  ...
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<title>South Africa workers strike over inflation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180012502</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 08:18 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Thousands of striking South African workers brought mines and businesses to a  ...  by labour unions to protest against rising inflation, high interest rates and likely job cuts  ...
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<title>Talks Pave Way for Economic Growth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180009388</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  as a key economic player in Southern Africa with a diversified economy whose potential is  ...  environment characterised by some of the highest inflationary pressures in years and foreign currency shortages.  ...
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<title>Traders, Landlords Demand Payment in Forex</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180009381</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:56 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  are now opting to transact in South African rand when either selling or buying goods.  ...  South African rand largely because of galloping inflation.&quot; A scotch-cart load of firewood is going  ...
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<title>America First</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180009301</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:56 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  have that, too. Hunger? Yes, that too. Inflation and weak currency? Present right here. Corruption?  ...  dollars while giving Israelis $3 billion and Egyptians $2 billion. In retrospect, the Marshall Plan,  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe rivals fail to show for talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180006447</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  delegations had yet to fly to South Africa from Harare. Tendai Biti the MDCs secretary-general  ...  against the backdrop of an official annual inflation rate of about 2.2million percent. Economists say  ...
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<title>AQUARIUS PLATINUM LIMITED - Fourth Quarter 2008 Production Results</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180005562</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the company&apos;s contracting model in South Africa, whilst disruptive to implement, are necessary, and  ...  production throughput, increased power tariffs and internal inflation pressures which resulted in increased Zimbabwean dollar  ...
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<title>Hamburger heaven at McDonald&apos;s globally</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180005261</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  percent in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa division. US same-store sales rose 3.4 percent  ...  walk through the door. Consumers, hit by inflation, the weak housing market and a lack  ...
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