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/ 12 November 2007
South African captain Graeme Smith laid into the state of the country’s pitches after his team surged to a record win over New Zealand in the first Test on Sunday. South Africa won by 358 runs after lunch on the fourth day to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
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/ 12 November 2007
The JSE started to show a slight turnaround on Monday as a renewed announcement by BHP Billiton added some buying interest among resource stocks. By midday, the JSE’s all-share index lifted 0,3% as resources collected 0,79%. However, the gold and platinum mining indices pulled back 0,91% and 1,4% respectively.
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/ 12 November 2007
South African grocer and retailer Pick ‘n Pay is to spend R110-million to change its brand identity and introduce and repackage most of its product lines, it said on Monday. However, the name "Pick ‘n Pay" will remain unchanged. The company will also launch a new customer magazine, <i>Fresh Living</i>.
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/ 12 November 2007
South African fixed and wireless broadband connections are expected to reach more than 3,3-million subscribers over the period 2007 to 2012, according to a report by ICT market research group BMI-TechKnowledge. It says the increase in connections represents a compound annual growth rate of 33% from this year until 2012.
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/ 12 November 2007
Justin Henin finished the toughest season of her career with one of her toughest victories at the WTA tennis championship. That’s exactly how she would have scripted it. Henin rallied to beat Maria Sharapova 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday in the longest three-set final in the tournament’s history.
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/ 12 November 2007
Dozens of construction workers converged on Durban’s Moses Mabhida 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium on Monday to continue their labour protest over wage disputes. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was awaiting a date from the Labour Court so that the dispute could be taken to a new level.
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/ 12 November 2007
Egyptian prosecutors have charged two detectives with sodomising a suspect in a drugs case in the Nile Delta. A report on the case quotes the suspect, 27-year-old Ahmed Sayed Hussein, as saying the detectives in Kalyoubia province tied him up with ropes, thrashed him with a belt and sodomised him with their hands.
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/ 12 November 2007
Somali and Ethiopian troops shut down Mogadishu’s main market in a search for Islamist insurgents on Sunday after fighting that has killed at least 60 people and driven tens of thousands from the Somali capital. Rights groups have criticised the Ethiopians for failing to distinguish between civilian and insurgent targets.
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/ 12 November 2007
A policeman accidentally shot dead a soccer fan on Sunday during a confrontation between supporters of rival clubs in Italy, police said. The shooting took place after Lazio and Juventus supporters clashed at a motorway restaurant near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.
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/ 12 November 2007
China’s muzzled press and burgeoning internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity to spread news quicker than censors can control it. But the ability of bloggers to dodge censors and provide a voice for China’s poor and disadvantaged by covering news events Beijing would rather be left unreported.