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/ 9 November 2007
A development project aims to restore a rich heritage to a university campus, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 9 November 2007
A journalist, furious because his stories had been rejected, stormed into a radio station’s premises and threatened to ”blow this place up” unless his grievances were aired. Radio Heart’s news anchor Zulpha Khan on Friday told the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court she bore the brunt of the incident in May.
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/ 9 November 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has named a replacement advocate to conduct an official probe into the city’s spy affair. The first person she chose for the job, advocate Geoff Budlender, withdrew over a possible conflict of interest. Zille has now asked advocate Josie Jordaan of the Cape Bar to lead the inquiry.
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/ 9 November 2007
Consumers are waking up to some startling facts about buying water in bottles, the National Consumer Forum says. In the United States, public pressure has been growing to force powerful corporations to disclose where their bottled water comes from, after research indicated that up to 40% of bottled water used tap water as its source.
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/ 9 November 2007
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the house of a Pakistani minister in the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday, killing four people, police said. Federal Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam, who is also the local head of President Pervez Musharraf’s ruling party, told state television that he was unharmed in the blast.
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/ 9 November 2007
A monster offshore oil discovery could help Brazil join the ranks of the world’s major exporters, but full-scale extraction is unlikely until 2013 and will be very expensive. The "ultra-deep" Tupi field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro could hold as much as eight billion barrels of recoverable light crude.
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/ 9 November 2007
Hundreds of construction workers striking at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium began dispersing on Friday, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. Msi Poswa, the NUM’s regional organiser and chief negotiator, said tired protesters were told by the union they could return home. ”They will regroup on Monday,” he said.
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/ 9 November 2007
Rafael Nadal hit the practice court with 48 hours to go before his start at the year-end Masters Cup in Shanghai, determined to fulfil the goal of ending this season on a high note. Nadal, losing finalist last weekend in the Paris final to David Nalbandian, said he wants to put a winning stamp on this season.
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/ 9 November 2007
Zimbabwe police on Friday brought in for questioning an editor and two executives from two leading independent media houses. Hama Saburi, editor of financial weekly the Financial Gazette, said he and the newspaper’s chief executive were on their way to a police station for apparently violating government price controls.
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/ 9 November 2007
After Paula Radcliffe’s victory in the New York Marathon, 10 months after giving birth, other champion mums told Michael Phillips that having a baby can be a stepping stone to better things. Britain’s world record holder Radcliffe, running her first marathon in two years after taking a maternity break, beat Gete Wami after a race-long duel with a time of two hours, 23 minutes, nine seconds.