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/ 15 November 2007
A planned United Nations-African Union peace force for Darfur could fail unless disputes with Sudan over its make-up are resolved and key specialised units found. The 26 000-member force aims to bring security to the western Sudanese region after four-and-a-half years of conflict.
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/ 15 November 2007
South African investing banking and asset-management group Investec said on Thursday that pretax operating profit increased 23,8% to £254,3-million (R3,6-billion) in the six months to September 30. ”Whilst current conditions within the UK credit markets remain, activity levels are likely to be impacted,” said chief executive Stephen Koseff.
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/ 15 November 2007
The death toll following a clash at a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)’s meeting at Goldfields’ Beatrix mine in the Free State, has risen to four, a mine spokesperson said on Thursday. Two people were clubbed to death and died at a meeting of about 750 NUM members on Tuesday night.
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/ 15 November 2007
Defeat is too terrible to contemplate for six African minnows when they clash in 2010 World Cup qualifiers this weekend. Failure means three years in the wilderness because the fixtures double as 2010 African Nations Cup qualifiers and the losers will not play competitively again until late that year.
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/ 15 November 2007
The All Blacks coaches have blamed English referee Wayne Barnes for their World Cup failure, it was reported on Thursday as the New Zealand Rugby Union deliberated on the future of the coaching panel. Head coach Graham Henry and his assistants Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith have maintained a diplomatic silence about Barnes’ performance in the World Cup quarterfinal.
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/ 15 November 2007
Led by a record-breaking Jeff Koons sculpture and a -million Francis Bacon canvas, Sotheby’s roared back from a dismal Impressionist sale to score the highest total in its history at a contemporary and postwar art auction on Wednesday.
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/ 15 November 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company’s emergence as the lifeblood of the internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question.
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/ 15 November 2007
A powerful earthquake hit mineral-rich northern Chile on Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring more than 100 and halting output at some of the world’s largest copper mines. Two people were confirmed dead and 117 were injured in the magnitude 7,7 quake, which raised massive dust clouds in Chile’s mountainous north
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/ 15 November 2007
R1-billion was ”looted” from the Land Bank, the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Wednesday. ”The amounts reported as ‘looted’ in the weekend newspapers are inaccurate,” said ministry spokesperson Godfrey Mdhluli. The Sunday Times reported that top Land Bank officials had siphoned off more than R2-billion meant for farmers.
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/ 15 November 2007
Japan will launch satellite searches for rare metals with Botswana and South Africa in a global race to secure industrial resources, a minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Japan has a strong interest in platinum and other rare metals and minerals abundant in Africa.