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/ 15 November 2007
Picture it: Johannesburg, 2010. It’s the final of the World Cup, and Bafana Bafana are playing England. Soccer City is brightly lit.
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/ 15 November 2007
Southern African countries face a ”very real challenge” of regime change encouraged by foreign powers, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Thursday. He was opening the ministerial session of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Joint Permanent Commission on defence and security in Vanderbijlpark.
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/ 15 November 2007
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata, on paid leave while on trial on a drunk-drinking charge, will have received more than R1-million when his case resumes next year. Moneyweb reported on Thursday that Motata is getting a full judge’s salary while on special leave.
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/ 15 November 2007
South Africa will be ruthless in the second Test against New Zealand after securing their biggest win in the first match, cricket coach Mickey Arthur said on Thursday. he hosts won the first Test by 358 runs in Johannesburg on Sunday, which also marked New Zealand’s heaviest loss. The second Test starts on Friday.
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/ 15 November 2007
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday lodged nomination papers with the electoral board, seeking a second and final term of office ahead of polls expected to be the country’s closest yet. Kibaki vowed to crack down on violence in the run-up to the December 27 election, the fourth since pluralism was reintroduced in 1992.
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/ 15 November 2007
The Algerian army is ”on the road to victory” over the Maghreb branch of the al-Qaeda network, responsible for suicide attacks in the North African country, according to a French anti-terrorism expert. The Maghreb branch has introduced suicide bomb attacks that have targeted government and army positions in Algeria.
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/ 15 November 2007
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has named a new unity Cabinet, drawing members from two leading opposition groups in a bid to end months of political deadlock in the troubled African nation. The new Cabinet comprises 19 ministers and seven deputy ministers, presidential spokesperson Leonidas Hatungimana said.
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/ 15 November 2007
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday commissioned the first biodiesel production plant in oil-starved Zimbabwe, vowing that the country will ”never collapse”. ”As a nation we have once again demonstrated that the ill-fated sanctions against the innocent people of Zimbabwe can never subdue our resilience,” Mugabe said at the plant’s official opening.
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/ 15 November 2007
Thousands of panel beaters — belonging to the National Guild of Independent Auto-Body Repairers — braved the scorching sun in Johannesburg on Thursday to protest against the repair policies of insurer Mutual & Federal. They accuse Mutual & Federal of using its dominant bargaining power to apply a ”divide and rule” strategy.
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/ 15 November 2007
Local companies have benefited to the tune of R850-million from defence offset contracts for equipment installed aboard the South African Navy’s four new Valour-class frigates. South Africa has acquired the four new frigates at a total cost of about €500-million (about R4,9-billion).