S/Africa stadium workers call off strike

Construction workers have agreed to end a weeklong strike that threatened to derail the completion of already tightly scheduled projects for the Football World Cup in South Africa.



Workers agreed on a pay increase of 12 per cent, below the earlier demand of 13 per cent, and work at sites across South Africa is to resume tomorrow.



At least 70,000 workers went on strike last Wednesday, stopping work on stadiums, airports, freeways and Johannesburg\'s new high-speed rail link.



Those projects were scheduled to be finished by December.



The World Cup football championship is to be held in the summer of 2010.