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/ 6 November 2007
Ithafa Secondary School in Ermelo won R60 000 in the annual global warming and climate change schools’ competition in Mpumalanga. The school’s winning model was an energy efficient kitchen that used solar energy to heat water, said the province’s department of agriculture and land administration.
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/ 6 November 2007
A government inspection was still ongoing at on one of South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti’s larger mines, which was shut on Friday after a miner was killed in a rockfall, the company said on Tuesday. More than 150 workers have been killed in mine accidents this year in South Africa compared to about 200 last year.
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/ 6 November 2007
The Botswana Department of Prisons and Rehabilitation has confirmed the hanging of death row inmate Sepeni Thubisane Popo, the Mmegi (the Reporter) newspaper reported Monday. It was Botswana’s 39th execution since independence from Britain in 1966.
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/ 6 November 2007
The JSE retained its strong tone at noon on Tuesday as investors continued to hunt for bargains after sharp losses in recent days, while rallying gold and platinum prices provided additional support. At 12.04pm, the all-share index was up 0,62% thanks to a 2,02% gain in the gold mining index.
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/ 6 November 2007
The first Soccer World Cup to be held in Africa can be the glue which binds a continent too often riven by conflict, according to the man in charge of organising the world’s most popular sporting event. Danny Jordaan said the 2010 tournament was a perfect opportunity to showcase Africa and banish negative stereotypes.
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/ 6 November 2007
The looming threat of an untreatable strain of tuberculosis emerging as the disease becomes ever more drug resistant will occupy the minds of about 3Â 000 experts at a conference in Cape Town this week. Though curable, more than 1,5-million people die of tuberculosis every year and growing numbers of patients do not react to standard drugs.
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/ 6 November 2007
The only fixed-line telephone for the first community television station in South Africa to get a year-long broadcasting licence is hidden away in an outdoor broadcasting van for fear of freeloading by staff and guests. When you call the station let it ring for a long time, publicist Deon Botha advises.
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/ 6 November 2007
They challenge your newspaper literacy, interrupt otherwise intelligible conversations, and add to the difficulty of finding your way. The culprits: India’s endemic acronyms, abbreviations and initials. Bureaucrats across the world pack official reports with them, but India distinguishes itself by relishing in their everyday use.
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/ 6 November 2007
A huge wall of mud and water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern Mexico on Monday and the government said at least 16 people were missing. Mexican media reported as many as 30 people could be missing in the landslide.
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/ 6 November 2007
Cheering crowds waved Spanish flags as King Juan Carlos visited Spain’s disputed North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, but hundreds of Moroccans demonstrated against him just across the border. With shouts of ”Long live the King!” and ”Ceuta is Spanish”, thousands of locals roared their approval at Juan Carlos.