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/ 11 September 2007
Taxi violence is disturbing and must be curbed in order to build confidence in the taxi industry, the Gauteng registrar for public transport said on Tuesday. ”We all come to the point of saying enough is enough and let us stop the carnage. Let us all bring back confidence in the taxi industry,” Sam Ledwaba told a media conference in Johannesburg.
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/ 11 September 2007
Opec was meeting on Tuesday to consider a modest rise in oil output proposed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states in a gesture to consumers worried by the economic impact of oil and rapidly diminishing stocks. But the plan to add 500 000 barrels per day of oil had yet to convince all Opec ministers.
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/ 11 September 2007
Nearly a decade since Humphrey was shown the door to 10 Downing Street, the prime ministerial house has a cat in residence again. Sybil, named after Basil’s wife in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, has moved down from Edinburgh with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and his family who are living in the three-bedroomed flat above number 10.
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/ 11 September 2007
The National Assembly’s communications committee on Tuesday recommended 12 names for the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board, including six current board members. The six are Alison Gilwald, Andile Mbeki, Fadila Lagadien, Khanyisile Mkhonza, Christine Qunta and Ashwin Trikamjee.
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/ 11 September 2007
Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people left homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India’s north-east rose to 3,5-million. About 10-million people out of the 27-million population of Assam state have been affected by flooding after rains in the past few days.
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/ 11 September 2007
An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, a deadly disease for which there is no treatment, has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. Samples from five people have tested positive for the Ebola virus in the southern province of Kasai Occidental.
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/ 11 September 2007
Mozambique has doubled power supplies to its neighbour, Zimbabwe, which has been hit by massive power cuts, news reports said on Tuesday. The new deal came although Zimbabwe power company Zesa Holdings, which earlier this year declared itself broke, has an outstanding -million debt with Mozambican power supplier HCB, the official Herald newspaper said.
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/ 11 September 2007
What do you when you are offered the chance to have a hot date on a Tuesday afternoon, even though you are married? You invite your husband to share the experience with you, of course. Yolandi Groenewald had an amazing afternoon with an Aston Martin Vantage Roadster and her hubby (in that order).
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/ 11 September 2007
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond escaped unhurt from a high-speed crash while filming the BBC show, less than a year after he nearly died in a jet-powered car, the BBC said on Tuesday. Hammond (37) was shunted off the track during an endurance race at the Silverstone track near Northampton at the weekend.
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/ 11 September 2007
In a startling admission, many of the Bafana Bafana players have confirmed they were ”in the dark” over the Confederation of African Football rules that resulted in Zambia catapulting past South Africa to become Group 11 winners after their stunning 3-1 win in an African Nations Cup qualifier in Cape Town on Sunday.