Cape Times: "Consumers were now forking out 13,4 percent more for a trolley-load of basic food items compared to a year ago, but there was hope that rapidly escalating food prices might level out during 2008, economists at the National Agricultural Marketing Committee said on Thursday."
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"