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/ 21 January 2008
A nationwide power blackout in Zambia cut copper and cobalt production at some mines, damaging mining equipment and temporarily trapping hundreds of miners underground. State media reported nearly 300 miners on night shifts at units of KCM and Mopani Copper Mines were temporarily trapped in shafts for hours.
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/ 21 January 2008
Swiss top seed Roger Federer recovered from his major scare in the previous round to cruise into the quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a straight sets victory over Tomas Berdych on Monday. The 12-time Grand Slam champion overcame the Czech 13th seed, 6-4, 7-6 (9/7), 6-3 in one hour 59 minutes.
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/ 21 January 2008
A new South African airline called Redair has been given the rights to operate five weekly round-trip flights from Cape Town or Durban to Stansted in the United Kingdom, a media report said on Monday. Andy Cluver, the chief executive of Civair, said he hoped the airline would start operating this year.
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/ 21 January 2008
Four skydivers had to bail out of a light plane over Grahamstown after the engine failed, a media report said on Monday. Commercial pilot Alexander Hammerschmidt (42) was the toast of the EP Skydiving Club after he was forced to perform an emergency landing on a dirt road at about 11am on Sunday.
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/ 21 January 2008
On November 19 2002, four months before the invasion of Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a rare attempt to seek out expert views beyond the circle of his official advisers. Six distinguished academics were invited to Downing Street: three specialists on Iraq, and three on international security.
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/ 21 January 2008
Libya will make no exceptions in its drive to expel illegal immigrants and any recruitment of foreign labour in future must be done through legal channels, an official said on Sunday. The oil-rich North African country said on Wednesday it had started deporting illegal immigrants, a community of up to two million, mostly men from poor African states.
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/ 21 January 2008
Nationwide power failures shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe for hours over the weekend, and Eskom said it would suspend exports to neighbouring countries amid mounting anger over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent’s economic hub.
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/ 21 January 2008
While political protests blight Kenya, Ghana will polish its image as a tourism and investment destination when it hosts the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, which started on Sunday. Staging Africa’s most prestigious sporting event will cast a positive international spotlight on the small but stable West African state.
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/ 21 January 2008
Almost 60% of Australians are either members or want to join the ‘mile-high club’ — where membership is gained by having sex on an aircraft. Asked whether they would consider making love at altitude, almost half of the 1 110 surveyed by a travel website said they would but had not yet satisfied their desire.
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/ 21 January 2008
It is almost inconceivable that the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) Monetary Policy Committee would raise interest rates in the current atmosphere, according to strategist for Investec Securities, Brian Kantor. "I would not have raised the last two times. It is quite clear now that the last increase was over the top," he said,