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/ 10 November 2005
South Africa could be without star midfielder Elrio van Heerden in their Nelson Mandela Cup match against Senegal on Saturday. Van Heerden twisted his ankle during the team’s training session at the Westbourne Oval on Wednesday evening. A diagnosis on the extent of the injury will only be available later on Thursday.
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/ 10 November 2005
KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress Premier Sibusiso Ndebele should refrain from attending a routine court appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday, says Democratic Alliance KwaZulu-Natal leader Roger Burrows. The party says that leading public demonstrations outside court would undermine judicial independence.
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/ 10 November 2005
An e-mail doing the rounds in South Africa warns ATM users that organised criminals are installing equipment on the machines to steal both the ATM card number and its PIN. The scam involves a square piece of equipment that is placed in front of the existing bank-card slot.
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/ 10 November 2005
England’s players will pocket a reported £300 000 (R3,5-million) each if they win the World Cup in Germany next summer. The payments are outlined in a bonus package the England players agreed in principle with the Football Association during talks in Manchester that involved senior squad members.
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/ 10 November 2005
Tensions in the tripartite alliance in the Western Cape have flared anew with a stinging rebuke in a letter published in the Cape Times on Thursday to Congress of South African Trade Unions provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich by the chairperson of the African National Congress in the province, James Ngculu.
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/ 10 November 2005
Tshwane municipality and the Department of Public Works signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday on a joint initiative to redevelop the city centre. The Re Kgabisa Tshwane project will cost the municipality R2-billion, while the national government will contribute R9-billion over 25 years.
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/ 10 November 2005
About 145 Durban train drivers are expected to go on strike on Thursday afternoon over new rosters, a day after at least 28 coaches were burnt in Gauteng by commuters angered by delays. The drivers’ union will also meet Metrorail CEO Lauriette Modipane to discuss the safety of its drivers in the wave of train torchings.
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/ 10 November 2005
A 11-nation summit on restoring stability to Africa’s Great Lakes region, earlier scheduled for December in Kenya, has been postponed to the second half of next year due to rescheduled elections in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations announced on Thursday.
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/ 10 November 2005
Liberia’s top female politician took a strong early lead in a presidential run-off as her millionaire soccer-star opponent charged the vote was fraudulent, throwing uncertainty over elections that had raised hopes for peace in the war-ravaged nation.
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/ 10 November 2005
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a top civil rights leader and the mayor of a major city for allegedly inciting public violence, according to local reports on Thursday. Chitungwiza mayor Misheck Shoko was arrested for ”inciting people to carry out an illegal demonstration in the town”, the state-controlled Herald newspaper said.