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Paraffin users to feel the pain as price doubles

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Over 500,000 South African households relying on paraffin face financial strain as the price of illuminating paraffin nearly doubles, rising by R11.67 per litre.

Washington’s Middle East gamble may deepen its own decline while reinforcing Beijing’s rise

Yesterday at 19:30 PM, via Daily Maverick

The escalating Middle East conflict is rapidly becoming a defining front in the global power struggle, with US intervention risking strategic overreach while China benefits from structural advantages in energy, supply chains and finance. Rather than weakening its rival, Washington’s approach may accelerate the very shift in global power it is trying to contain.

BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: Representation can lead to bad taxation

Yesterday at 19:28 PM, via Daily Maverick

We face the very real risk that taxation will become hopelessly politicised, in which case we’re lost. It starts with political parties campaigning on lowering VAT and runs all the way to campaigning on lowering the price of beer. And that is a coalition-buster.

Woods had pills in pocket at crash scene, say police

Yesterday at 19:05 PM, via BBC News

Tiger Woods had two hydrocodone pills in his pocket as officers observed him acting “lethargic and slow” following his car crash in Florida last week, a police report says.

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