Cape Argus (South Africa) back issues from October 2007:
The thriller as high art.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... This novel has the stamp of perfection. On October 16, we'll know whether it has won this year's Man Booker prize, for which it has deservedly been nominated. But even if it is not chosen - and that's a competition that has been dogged by odd choices - it is already making its mark as one ...
Charged for unwanted WiFi usage; Woman lays charge of internet fraud against service provider.(Classified)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By JOSEPH BOOYSEN Staff Reporter A Sea Point woman has laid a charge of internet fraud after getting a R2 000 bill from MWeb. Jill Stoller told Argus Action she was forced to go to the police when she could not convince MWeb that she had not bought ...
Thoughtful guide to beating the fat crisis and keeping slim and trim.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... At the start of this sensible book about the "weight and fitness crisis" in the US, Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett tells us some shocking things. By 1995, she says, two-thirds of Americans were overweight, hundreds of thousands were dying fat-related deaths, being ...
Refiloe, it's the heart, not the kidney, that's the organ of love.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The return of Refiloe to The Deep was greeted with hostility by the Matabane family, and with good reason. She is the woman Zeb (Mlangeni Nawa) wanted to take on as a second wife a while back. Aside from leaving his wife, Agnes (Keketso Semoko), devastated, the affair resulted in the birth ...
Cheating partner not only fly in ointment.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... It should've been one of the happiest days in Felicia Forrester's life, but it ended in tears. If you haven't been following B&B of late, here's where the story is at: Felicia, clad in a designer black gown (with a black floral bouquet to match), was to marry the man of her dreams, Dante ...
you have two new voice males.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott Behind many of the Idols semi-finalists is a voice coach punching the air, shouting "yes". Despite all the sarcastic comments and reams of bitchy analysis - when it gets down to it - what we have is a bunch of youngsters, who live to sing and have ...
Making a song and dance of summer.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Helen Herimbi The phenomenon that is The High School Musical (THSM) is about more than just song and dance. It seems it is also turned into the root of saucy celebrity scandal. The sequel to the straight-to-TV children's movie about a group of friends who ...
Aaah, the new scent of another Chanel woman.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sally Scott Someone giving input on the schedule in DStv's Dish magazine has seen fit to re-name the iconic perfume "Channel". Mon Dieu! Legendary French couturier Coco Chanel must be rolling in her crushed silk in Lausanne, where she is buried. Whether ...
A HEART OF STOAN.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... 'I used to scare girls with it," Stoan comments, obviously amused, signalling to his outstretched left hand. When he was younger, he got his hand stuck under a garage door and in the process, most of his thumb was swallowed by the menacing thing. "I'd draw a smile on my thumb," ...
Tweens get the whole nine yards.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lara de Matos It's a colloquial term that's likely to be met with blank stares from "the big people", but which will undoubtedly see SA youths from all cultures nodding their heads in understanding. Nine-9 (pronounced nine-nine) stands for all that's ...
Seems Pink is still a little M!ssunderstood.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Pink's marriage to Carey Hart is allegedly on the rocks. The singer was heard telling friends at a Hollywood restaurant that things are so bad she wants time apart from her husband of 21 months. A source told Us Weekly magazine: "Pink was out with a table full of ...
Too much spread, so turkey instead.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Milla Jovovich has gone "cold turkey" on peanut butter because she was gaining so much weight. The ex-model, who is expecting a daughter in November, has gained 31kg in four months after ...
Evan should just let it be.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Evan Rachel Wood is tired of people mistaking her tattoo for a ferret. She got the strawberry-shaped etching while filming the Beatles-themed musical Across the ...
Ringo's Starr to rise again.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Quentin Tarantino wants to cast Ringo Starr in one of his movies. The director is keen to work with the Beatles drummer and says he always had a greater "presence" than his former bandmates. Tarantino told the Liverpool Echo newspaper: "I'd pick Elvis over the Beatles ...
Seems her nose was out of joint.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Ashlee Simpson's dad confirmed she had a nose job. Joe Simpson, who manages her singing career, says the 22-year-old star underwent rhinoplasty last year purely for health reasons. Joe, who also manages his eldest daughter, Jessica, told Us Weekly magazine: "Girls ...
Going up country.(Entertainment)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Pete Doherty thanked his fans for all their support during his rehab stint. The troubled rocker put out a card assuring well-wishers he is on the road to recovery. Friends of the ...
Realities, not ideologies, should guide SA.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... In December, the ANC's National Consultative Conference will be convened in Polokwane. It might well be the most important political event in the 13-year history of the new South Africa. This is because those gathered in Polo-kwane will not only determine who South Africa's president until ...
Getting back to grass roots on the issue of landless South Africans.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The land that peasant farmers or shack-dwellers live on is frequently either public land, or land that vests in a tribal chief. The residents act to improve that land in some form, either by farming it or building a home on it. Neither the improvement nor the land are theirs to trade. ...
Parents should learn about the killer that is addiction.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... It has become the norm for people to die when it comes to addiction. Either the addicts kill someone or someone is killed due to addiction. Most recently, we had the case of a mother killing her own son who was on tik. We sit so easily in judgment in this kind of crime. While ...
Police are winning drugs war.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Newspapers again failed to help us convey to the public the successes of the police services in stamping out drug-related and other crimes. It was precisely for this reason that Community Safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane called a media briefing to provide them with recent ...
Mbeki must remember where he came from.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... It is with not much surprise that I learn of the Mbeki government's indifference to the human rights abuses happening in Burma. Our president has seriously shown himself to have the kind of nature which works completely against South Africa's standing as the bastion of democracy in Africa ....
The ANC's focus on materialism creates a nation without a soul.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... South Africa's problem is not poverty or crime, but ignorance. Poverty sits in the empty belly of the rural child who simply does not have enough to eat. It also sits on the corporate desk of any authority whose intellect is too blunted by financial gain to grasp that money ...
Rasool-Zille is sideshow.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The public spat between MEC Leonard Ramatlakane and Mayor Helen Zille does neither of them any good, nor does it help our community. Whatever they say to each other contributes to the divide that will take the focus off our struggle against those who seek to destroy the soul of our nation ....
Road to the end of job equity; Speed up the change, says Manyi.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By SIVUYILE MANGXAMBA Business Writer Outspoken employment commissioner Jimmy Manyi says South Africa should be working towards phasing out employment equity, but only once targets had been achieved. Speaking at the University of Stellenbosch Graduate ...
Do theright thing.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has an interesting take on legal procedures: he told a radio interviewer that he would face his detractors in court if they produced concrete evidence of his links to criminality. We had thought that the courts were there to decide ...
Lawyers expect Lotz trial to end this month.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By DIANNE HAWKER High Court Reporter The marathon murder trial that brought into sharp focus the lives of murdered Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz and her boyfriend, accused Fred van der Vyver, is expected to end this month. Today, Cape High Court Judge ...
Last laugh.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The human race has probably changed faster in the past century than in all those that went before. We have changed our concept of what money is, for example. Just 100 years ago, money meant gold. Each banknote that was issued was backed by its value in gold coin back in the bank vaults. ...
We'll be back in court with our lawyer, says Joe Slovo task team.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By DIANNE HAWKER High Court Reporter The Joe Slovo task team is ready to return to court later this week and has confirmed that it will be in court with its lawyer on Thursday. Task team member Mayenzeke Sopaqa told the Cape Argus that community ...
Work on waterborne diseases wins yet another award for expert they ignored.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By JOHN YELD Environment & Science Writer Stellenbosch University researcher Dr Jo Barnes is clearly embarrassed by being honoured with yet another award for her work in waterborne diseases in local rivers and streams. On Saturday she was awarded the Order ...
City's gateddevelopmentpolicy ready for adoption.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By JADE WITTEN Staff Reporter The City of Cape Town's Gated Development Policy is nearing conclusion and the "final version" is due to be implemented by the end of the year. Councillor Owen Kinahan, chairman n of the steering committee co-ordinating the ...
City busprojectofficialslet offthe hook.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By LINDSAY DENTLINGER Metro Writer Two city officials who acted contrary to procedure on a project to establish an inner city bus system, on which nearly R14 million was squandered, have been let off the hook. City manager Achmat Ebrahim has informed the ...
Officials 'hobble city probes into dicey spending '; Scopa says it's treated with disdain.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By LINDSAY DENTLINGER Metro Writer Insufficient legal and administrative support from officials to carry out its work has seriously delayed investigations into irregular spending totalling R314.7 million, says the city's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) ....
Two dead and 1 200 homeless as fires rip through settlements.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By NATASHA PRINCE and ZARA NICHOLSON Staff Reporters Two people died and an estimated 1 200 people have lost their homes after five separate fires broke out across the Western Cape over the weekend. This sparked calls from officials for, especially ...
Drop in sales at Nederburg auction.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Staff Writer The 33rd Nederburg Wine Auction had a disappointing run this weekend, with organisers reporting a 11% drop in overall income and fewer participants than last year. The organisers attributed the low income to competitive trading conditions in the South ...
Missing TB patient thought to be in hiding.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Staff Reporters Authorities are looking for the last of four patients with a deadly form of tuberculosis who absconded from Brooklyn Chest hospital. On Friday the Cape High Court ordered the four with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB to return to the hospital ...
'Most lethal' US floating arsenal here for play date with SA.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By NATASHA PRINCE Staff Reporter The US Navy's newest guided missile destroyer - "the most lethal arsenal ever put to sea" - has docked in Cape Town. The R7 billion vessel - the USS Forrest Sherman - an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, glided into the ...
Blazedestroys city fast food outlet.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By NATASHA PRINCE Staff Reporter A popular inner-city fast food outlet has been destroyed by a fire believed to have started in its kitchen. Faried Davids, owner of Calamari Express, in Namaqua House in Shortmarket street on Greenmarket Square, watched ...
Lifman asks for case to betransferred from Atlantis.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By FOUZIA VAN DER FORT Court Reporter Multimillionaire Mark Lifman, on trial in the Atlantis Regional Court for allegedly sexually abusing teenage boys, has asked for the case to be heard in the city after protes-ters stoned his car as he left the court during the ...
Construction at Green Point 'back on track'.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By ZARA NICHOLSON Staff Reporter The City of Cape Town says everything is "back on track" with the construction of the Green Point stadium and it is "confident" workers will make up the five days lost during the labour dispute between workers and construction bosses ....
Search continues for missing fisherman.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Police divers will continue the search today for a Belhar man missing after a fishing boat capsized off Melkbosstrand. Gary Meyer, 27, was fishing with his father and brother yesterday. NSRI spokesman Craig Lambinon said the police dive unit, metro ambulance and NSRI ...
MK vets want say in electingANC president; Veterans call for voting rights.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By WENDY JASSON DA COSTA Political Bureau Veterans of the ANC's former armed wing, uMkonto weSizwe (MK) are to lobby for voting rights in Limpopo in December so that they too can have a say in who should be the next president of the ANC. Newly-elected ...
ACDP casts net wider for top city job.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By LINDSAY DENTLINGER and ELLA SMOOK Staff Reporters The ACDP is to consider members not in positions of power in government to fill the post of deputy mayor, after Mayor Helen Zille rejected two of its candidates last week. An ACDP source says the party ...
DA man to lay charge against Qunta.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By NATASHA PRINCE Staff Reporter DA MP Mike Waters is set to lay a charge against attorney Christine Qunta, believed to be involved in a company that is marketing a purported Aids cure, Ancient African Wisdom. Waters said he planned to lay a charge of ...
Commission may rule on Hlophe today.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By LENORE OLIVER Staff Writer Cape Judge President John Hlophe could know his fate today. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), which has delayed taking a decision against Hlophe for months, is reportedly due to meet today to consider a request by Cape ...
Boland 'Mbeki camp ousts Zuma backers'.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By LENORE OLIVER Political Writer The ANC's succession battle is starting to hot up, with reports that pro-Zuma office-bearers in the Boland region were ousted by Mbeki supporters at the weekend. If confirmed, this would be a blow to the campaign by ...
Pikoli fallout is a looming crisis, warns DA; 'Mbeki obliged to address nation'.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By WENDY JASSON DA COSTA Political Bureau With Parliament in recess, the DA has called for a special sitting of the National Assembly so that President Thabo Mbeki can explain his decision to suspend National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli. ...
Huge drug ring bust puts SA in spotlight.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Elizma Nolte Foreign Service The recent uncovering of an international drug syndicate has raised questions about the extent of South Africa's role as a point of origin for illegal narcotics. UK-born Robert Flook, convicted of smuggling tons of cocaine ...
Politics.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... l If you do not cover up the dirt then you are not a team player and you will get fired. l I'm behind Mbeki 100% that he should have been informed before the warrant was authorised. Right or wrong, the buck stops with him. Firing Pikoli, however, was totally over the top and ...
Pool A.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... FINAL STANDINGS PWDLFAP South Africa4 4001894719 England43011088814 Tonga420289969 Samoa4103691425 United States4004601421 Played yesterday South Africa 64 USA 15 South Africa: Tries - ...
Surgery for Terry after elbow charge.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... DAILY MAIL Chelsea will urge the Football Association to take action against Fulham's Clint Dempsey after studying video evidence of the collision that left John Terry with a fractured cheekbone on Saturday. The England and Chelsea captain had surgery yesterday and ...
ATHLETICS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... IAAF meeting, Yokohama, Japan Men 100m: 1 Tyson Gay (US) 10.23sec, 2 Churandy Martina (Aho) 10.48, 3 Naoki Tsukahara (Jpn) 10.51 200m: 1 J J Johnson (US) 20.64, 2 Tyler Christopher (Can) 20.82, 3 Hitoshi Saito (Jpn) 21.16 400m: 1 Lewis Banda ...
Totti's olive branch asUnited gear for Roma.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Roma have re-opened the wounds of last season's bitter Champions League quarter-final by claiming Manchester United players deliberately whipped up a hostile atmosphere ahead of the second leg. The Italian side fly to Manchester tonight for tomorrow's group game, just six months ...
Today's tales from the English Press...(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Arsenal want manager Arsene Wenger to prolong his dynasty at Arsenal by signing him up until 2015. (Daily Express) Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neil expects to see his name eventually added to the list of possible managerial sackings. (The Sun) Kolo Toure swapped shirts ...
'Crush of humanity' consigns Bara babies to cardboard box.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Staff Reporter Three newborn babies snuggle next to each other in a cardboard box in one of the world's biggest hospitals because there isn't enough money to buy cribs. Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto has had its equipment budget slashed by more than ...
Reality check for netball.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... South African netball faces its moment of truth in exactly 40 days time when the world championships take place in Auckland. The country is one of an elite group of 16 taking part, and indeed, given the sport's antiquated ranking system, they go into the event as number five in the world. ...
Bleak forecastfor Province.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By DALE GRANGER If you're a die-hard optimist and believe in miracles, then Western Province can still make the Currie Cup playoffs - with the Cheetahs annihilating the Bulls at Loftus on Friday before the Cape side smashes Griquas 24 hours later in their final league game at ...
3 gunmen rob pub and patrons.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Three armed robbers forced their way into a Milnerton pub early today, attacking staff and patrons. Green Door Pub owner Grant McCullough said the doors were closed and his last customers were about to leave when the gunmen stormed in at about 2.30am. He said the ...
Selebi comes out fighting on crime links claims.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Staff Reporters Embattled Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi said he would like to have his day in court - but he would only face his detractors if they had concrete proof of his alleged links to the criminal underworld. In an extensive interview with Talk Radio ...
n Zaugg on fire.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Team South Africa's Adrian Zaugg took the series lead at the first leg of the A1 World Cup of Motorsport in Zandvoort yesterday. The 20-year-old cruised to victory in the sprint event, finishing 7.5sec ahead of France. In the feature race, he took second behind Britain's Oliver Jarvis to ...
Pollock ready to return home to recharge ODI batteries.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By IQBAL KHAN KARACHI: Shaun Pollock, dropped from the South African Test XI for the first time since making his debut against England in the 1995/96 season, could be winging his way back home if he is not required for the second match in the two-Test series against Pakistan. ...
Pollock: 416 Test wickets, 60 in Asia.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Shaun Pollock's performances as a bowler in Tests in Asia down the years are: 1997/98: v Pakistan. 10 wickets at 23.20 per wicket, best bowling 5-37 1999/00: v India. 9 wickets at 14.77. Best 4-24 2000: v Sri Lanka 11 wickets at 22.45. Best 3-40 ...
`Boks to turn up the heat; Fijians will get full respect as quarter-finalists.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By Mark Keohane Montpellier: The Springboks will honour the occasion of the World Cup quarter-final in Marseilles on Sunday, with their mental strength coach Henning Gericke insisting complacency would never undermine the team's campaign. The Springbok pack, as a ...
A night of records.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... South Africa beat the USA 64-15 in their World Cup pool match last night. This was the third time the countries had played - and all three times the Boks have won. These Bok records were rewritten: Most points: 64 (previous 43) ...
Quarter-finals.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Saturday, Marseilles: Australia v England (3pm) Cardiff: New Zealand v France (9pm) Sunday, Marseilles: South Africa v Fiji (3pm) St Denis: Argentina v Scotland (9pm) ...
First day's scorecard.(Sports)
Oct 01, 2007 ... South Africa - First innings HH Gibbs c Mohammad Hafeez b Umar Gul54 GC Smith lbw b Hafeez42 HM Amla not out49 JH Kallis not out65 Extras (1b 2lb 3nb) 6 Total ...