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/ 6 November 2007
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has ratified four new national records following a meeting of the ASA executive board last Saturday. Louw Smith of Boland province clocked 13,73 seconds to set a new South Africa junior men’s 110m hurdles record. He achieved this landmark on April 13.
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/ 6 November 2007
The government plans to hold countrywide public hearings early next year on the issue of name changes, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Tuesday. Addressing a media conference in Cape Town, Skweyiya said public hearings on the standardisation of geographical names in South Africa will be held in March 2008.
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/ 6 November 2007
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is working with the European Union on plans to reduce the number of overseas players dominating teams in leagues across Europe. Speaking to reporters in the Malaysian capital, where he is attending a regional award ceremony, Blatter said it was time for a change in Europe.
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/ 6 November 2007
Pakistani police beat and arrested lawyers protesting for a second day on Tuesday against President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency rule, while officials under United States pressure said an election would be held in early 2008. Opposition politicians, including Benazir Bhutto, have spoken out but there has been no real action on their part so far.
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/ 6 November 2007
Three leading international news agencies are set to boycott this week’s first cricket Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka after organisers demanded payment for the right to distribute photographs from the event. The row is the second major rights dispute to hit international sports organisers in two months.
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/ 6 November 2007
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and President Thabo Mbeki were meeting on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on tensions in southern Sudan and the deteriorating situation in Darfur. South Africa played a key role in forging the 2005 peace deal that ended 21 years of civil war in Sudan.
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/ 6 November 2007
Europe’s trade chief accused Nigeria and South Africa on Monday of trying to block negotiations for new trade and investment deals between the European Union and scores of former colonies. The EU wants to sign new Economic Partnership Agreements with nearly 80 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries before December 31.
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/ 6 November 2007
The Botswana Department of Prisons and Rehabilitation has confirmed the hanging of death row inmate Sepeni Thubisane Popo, the Mmegi (the Reporter) newspaper reported Monday. It was Botswana’s 39th execution since independence from Britain in 1966.
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/ 6 November 2007
Ithafa Secondary School in Ermelo won R60 000 in the annual global warming and climate change schools’ competition in Mpumalanga. The school’s winning model was an energy efficient kitchen that used solar energy to heat water, said the province’s department of agriculture and land administration.
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/ 6 November 2007
A government inspection was still ongoing at on one of South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti’s larger mines, which was shut on Friday after a miner was killed in a rockfall, the company said on Tuesday. More than 150 workers have been killed in mine accidents this year in South Africa compared to about 200 last year.