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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.
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/ 9 November 2007
South African Express was on Friday battling to explain the circumstances surrounding a double booking that led to a passenger being led off a plane to make way for a prominent African National Congress official. Beeld reported that a passenger was seated when she was told to leave the plane. It has emerged that ANC head of the presidency Smuts Ngonyama held the same ticket.
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/ 9 November 2007
Mozambique is among Southern and East African countries that will benefit from new, -million energy projects. The United Nations Environment Programme said in a press release issued on Thursday that the projects will use tea and sugar residues to generate energy.
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/ 9 November 2007
Politicians are likely to get an inflation-related increase this year as an interim measure, it emerged on Friday. President Thabo Mbeki is still considering the recommendations made by Judge Dikgang Moseneke, who heads the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-Bearers, the Presidency said in a statement.
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/ 9 November 2007
When a blogger revealed earlier this year that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the web encyclopedia’s founder for behaving unethically. But why is it so bad to pay someone to write something on Wikipedia?
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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
Oil prices rose on Friday to regain ground lost in a fall the previous session, as persistent supply concerns and a late rebound in United States stocks offset worries about US economic growth. Wall Street fell on Thursday but finished well off its lows after a late rebound in financial shares lifted other stock sectors.