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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).
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/ 15 November 2007
The death toll from a building site accident in eastern China when an elevator plunged more than 20 storeys has reached 11 after five of the injured died in hospital, state media said on Thursday. The accident happened at a nearly completed block of flats in Wuxi City in Jiangsu province.
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/ 15 November 2007
The initial cause of the diarrhoea outbreak in Delmas was water contamination, said Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla on Thursday. ”When we noticed the outbreak in October, we discovered that the water was contaminated,” he said. However, Makwetla said that more cases were reported after the water was purified.
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/ 15 November 2007
Eighteen coffins, suspected to have been stolen from graves, were found in an empty home in Soshanguve, Pretoria, the Sowetan reported on Thursday. Police raided the abandoned home on Wednesday, removing the coffins, which seem to have been dug up from graves, the report said.
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/ 15 November 2007
The outcome of the Competition Commission’s report on collusion in the bread and milling industry did not come as a surprise, Grain SA said on Thursday. The commission ordered Tiger Brands to pay an administrative penalty of R99-million, after the company admitted that it had participated in bread and milling cartels.
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/ 15 November 2007
An official inquiry has concluded that Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool misled his legislature, a source in the legislature said on Thursday. The multiparty inquiry was set up to investigate contradictory statements last year on spending on security upgrades to the home of community safety minister Leonard Ramatlakane.
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/ 15 November 2007
The Nazier Kapdi drug case in the Wynberg Regional Court in Cape Town deteriorated into acrimonious exchanges on Thursday, with a defence lawyer saying the trial was ”disgustingly unfair”. The chaos erupted over a technicality involving documents that prosecutor Greg Wolmarans should have handed to the defence team.
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/ 15 November 2007
The Constitutional Court on Thursday reserved judgement in the case of a man seeking to have his five-year stay in St Alban’s maximum-security jail near Port Elizabeth declared unlawful. Jonathan Zealand is claiming R10,4-million in damages from the ministers of justice and correctional services.