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/ 22 October 2007
President Thabo Mbeki’s domestic approval rating in September fell to 40%, its lowest point in four years, TNS Research Surveys said on Monday. The fall was evident across all race groups but slightly less so among black respondents, the global market insight and information group said in a statement. Large drops occurred in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Soweto.
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/ 22 October 2007
The government needed to take a series of firm and decisive steps to attract the direct foreign investment needed for job-creating economic growth, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on trade and industry, Dr Pierre Rabie, said on Monday. In a statement, Rabie listed ten ”action steps” needed to make the South African economy more competitive.
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/ 22 October 2007
Africa has a larger urban population than North America, reveals an international development study released on Monday. The 2007 edition of the International Institute for Environment and Development’s urban-change analysis found that 25 of the world’s fastest growing large cities were in Africa.
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/ 22 October 2007
Murder accused Fred van der Vyver told the Cape High Court on Monday that he never used the ornamental hammer that the state says could have been a murder weapon. Van der Vyver, accused of bludgeoning his student girlfriend Inge Lotz to death in her Stellenbosch flat in 2005, was starting his second day of cross-examination.
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/ 22 October 2007
From the high desert to the Pacific Ocean, out-of-control wildfires have engulfed swathes of drought-parched southern California, claiming one life, destroying several homes and a church in Malibu, and forcing an entire community to evacuate. Thousands more homes remained at risk on Monday.
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/ 22 October 2007
South African schools have become battlegrounds and an environment for drug-trafficking, Deputy Minister of Social Development Jean Swanson-Jacobs said on Monday. Swanson-Jacobs was addressing guests at the Ke Moja Hip-Hop Anti-Drug Campaign at Mannah Guest house in Kempton Park.
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/ 22 October 2007
The euro rose to a new all-time high against the dollar on Monday after a weekend meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers ended without a clear statement of concern about the 13-nation currency’s strength. The euro rose as high as ,4348 in Asian trading, breaking a previous record of ,4319, set on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2007
Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga, accused of massacres, using child soldiers and turning women into sex slaves, is to make his first appearance on Monday before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Katanga (29) arrived in The Hague on Thursday after being handed over to the ICC by Congolese authorities in Kinshasa.
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/ 22 October 2007
Members of the Evaton community attacked police after a three-year-old boy was killed by a drunk driver, Gauteng police said on Monday. The mob wanted police to hand the driver over to them, spokesperson Captain William Velaphi Mcera said. The incident took place on Bengu Road in Evaton on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 22 October 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has called for a more concerted international effort to put the financing of education and training on a better footing and to ensure education and training opportunities become more equitably distributed across the world.