South Africa union agrees to end strike

South African construction workers have agreed to end a weeklong strike that has disrupted work on stadiums for the 2010 World Cup. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the main union involved in the dispute, announced the end of the mass action on Wednesday, saying that details of a wage agreement would be unveiled later. "We have an agreement," Thamsanqa Matosa, the union's deputy president, said. "The strike will be called off immediately after the signing and the workers will be expected to report for work on Thursday." Workers have been striking for a week, paralysing work on 2010 World Cup football stadiums and on the mass transit Gautrain high-speed rail project which serves the area around Johannesburg.