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/ 9 November 2007
Nigeria’s federal government plans to increase spending by 7% to 2,47-trillion naira (-billion) in 2008 from 2,3-trillion naira the previous year, President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Thursday. The amount allocated to spending on security nationwide and on security and development in the volatile oil-rich Niger Delta will go up by 7%.
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/ 9 November 2007
New Zealand lost five wickets for the addition of 56 runs before lunch on the second day of the first Castle Lager Test against South Africa at the Wanderers on Friday, and were reeling on 97 for seven at the break. They trailed South Africa by 129 runs.
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/ 9 November 2007
A voluntary recall of Chinese-made Bindeez toy beads has been extended to South Africa, a media report said on Friday. Certain batches of the beads, which stick together when exposed to water, are coated with a chemical which, when ingested, metabolises into the date-rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate.
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/ 9 November 2007
A total of 532 cases of diarrhoea have been recorded in Delmas, Mpumalanga, and there was still no clarity on the cause, the Water Affairs and Forestry Department said on Friday. On Thursday, 63 cases were reported, said spokesperson Linda Page.
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/ 9 November 2007
South Africans who want to learn more about the New Zealand way of cricket should take a long look at the face of Scott Styris during the first Test at the Wanderers. The unkind among us might say that Banquo’s ghost has nothing on Styris, whose pale credentials are brought into startling relief when he slaps on the sunblock.
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/ 9 November 2007
Poachers have shot dead three black rhinoceroses — a species listed as the most highly endangered large mammal — on a private conservancy in Zimbabwe. Owner John Travers said poachers armed with AK47 rifles on Wednesday night evaded the armed guards surrounding the rhino at the Imire game park.
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/ 9 November 2007
Jamaican expert Fitzmore Coates testified at the inquest into the death of ex-Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer that tests showed traces of potentially deadly pesticide cypermethrin. Coates said that two weeks ago he was asked to provide an toxicology analysis of the Woolmer’s stomach contents.
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/ 9 November 2007
Hundreds of strikers converged on Durban’s Moses Mabhida Soccer World Cup stadium on Friday as the third day of the construction workers’ strike began. Armed with sticks, umbrellas and knobkerries, the crowd began toyi-toying outside the stadium.
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/ 9 November 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the documentary <i>Deliver Us from Evil</i> .
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/ 9 November 2007
A suicide attack in Afghanistan this week killed 59 children and five teachers, the education ministry said Friday, taking the death toll to 75 in the deadliest attack in the insurgency-hit country. Six lawmakers and five bodyguards were also killed in the blast on Tuesday in the northern province of Baghlan.