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/ 28 November 2007
A Western Cape taxi driver was arrested at a roadblock in Wynberg on Wednesday for R20 000 in unpaid fines, said police. Captain Randall Stoffels said another four taxi drivers abandoned their vehicles and ran away when they saw the roadblock in Ottery Road.
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/ 28 November 2007
A sacked Transnet human resources manager who took her case all the way to the Constitutional Court will have to start again by seeking arbitration, the court ruled on Wednesday. Petronella Chirwa worked as a human resources manager for the Transnet pension-fund business unit.
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/ 28 November 2007
The South African National Defence Force Union on Wednesday threatened to lay a criminal charge against Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota for contravening the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The union also wants the Labour Department to take action against the South African National Defence Force for non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
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/ 28 November 2007
Chadian rebels warned a European Union peacekeeping force bound for eastern Chad on Wednesday not to side with President Idriss Déby Itno, saying they would fight it as a foreign occupation army if it did so. The warning from the rebel Assembly of Forces for Change followed the biggest battle in months in eastern Chad.
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/ 28 November 2007
A vast archive of German war records opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, giving historians and Holocaust survivors, who have waited more than 60 years, access to concentration-camp records detailing Nazi horrors. The 11 countries that oversee the archive have finished ratifying an accord unsealing about 50-million pages.
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/ 28 November 2007
Egyptian police arrested 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood organisation late on Tuesday in the oasis city of Fayoum on charges of holding meetings to prepare for upcoming local elections. Long ignored and left to supporters of the ruling party, municipal elections have gained in importance following a 2005 change in the electoral law.
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/ 28 November 2007
Oprah Winfrey has met with the family of the first pupil to complain of abuse at her elite school for disadvantaged South African girls, and invited the girl to return to the academy. The United States magazine People quoted the father of the pupil as saying they met for two hours with Winfrey on Sunday.
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/ 28 November 2007
Widows long ago racked up a name for themselves in France’s bubbly Champagne region, where the most celebrated of all, Veuve (Widow) Cliquot, struck gold over 100 years ago by discovering how to turn the cloudy tipple sparkling clear. As Champagne, now a victim of its success faces a turning-point in history, a new widow joins the elite club of top tipplers — with a weighty agenda on her plate.
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/ 28 November 2007
The RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, which has been under intense pressure from anti-smoking groups and members of the United States Congress over print ads for its cigarettes, said it would not advertise its brands in newspapers or consumer magazines next year.
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/ 28 November 2007
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The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) will not ask President Thabo Mbeki to step down as a nominee for the top leadership position in the ruling party. ”We have got no right to ask anybody who has been nominated to step down. It’s undemocratic,” ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula said in Johannesburg on Wednesday.