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/ 16 November 2007

Durban construction strike continues

Dozens of 2010 construction workers converged on Durban’s Moses Mabhida stadium on Friday to continue industrial action. Talks with their building contractor failed to result in a resolution on Thursday. Talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Group Five/WBHO consortium are expected to resume on Friday.

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/ 16 November 2007

Gimme the money, or I’ll staple you

A man wearing a ski mask used a stapler to hold up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store — and briefly got away with , authorities said. Gerald Rocchi (32) was arrested shortly after he flashed a chrome-plated stapler at an employee of the Ice Cream Shop in Ashland on Tuesday and demanded money, police said.

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/ 16 November 2007

Fancy a drink, Graeme?

It was Sunday night in Jozi in the type of pub in which the ”No Smoking” signs seem to turn a deeper shade of mustard gas with each devious gentle expulsion of spent tobacco. The half-price pizza special was long over. Worse, the kitchen was closed. So the hungry worked on their thirst instead.