Cape Argus (South Africa) back issues from June 2009:
Nerves shot to hell after biting the bullet.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Sienna Miller was "terrified" of handling the guns in her new movie. The actress, who a plays villain in GI Joe, looked so worried when she held a pistol she was taken aside by bosses to make sure she ...
Actor has to Russell up a home on set.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Russell Crowe is homeless. The 45-year-old actor is reportedly struggling to find a property to rent in west Wales, where he is filming Sir Ridley Scott's adaptation of Robin Hood. ...
Swing both ways and no man stays.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Lady Gaga's lovers are intimidated by her bisexuality. The singer admits she is attracted to men and women and this has caused problems with her previous boyfriends ....
Actress off on a quest for beauty.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Jessica Simpson is to make a return to reality TV. The singer, who starred in MTV's Newlyweds with ex-husband Nick Lachey, will travel the world with a friend to find out what is deemed beautiful for the new show, The Price of Beauty. Jessica's representative said: ...
Stage set for interesting pairing.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are to star in a Broadway show together. The James Bond actor and X-Men star will play Chicago police officers in A Steady Rain. The production sees the two men called to a domestic dispute, which results in the ...
Mission impossible.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Katie Holmes wants to have more sex with husband Tom Cruise. The actress is reportedly frustrated with the couple's hectic schedule and is keen to spend more intimate time with Tom. A source told Britain's Closer magazine: "Katie has become noticeably more miserable ...
busting out.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The thought of baring your bits for money, having a wrinkled pensioner for a lover (whom you share with two other women) and putting your every private moment forward for public scrutiny, is not quite what every little girl dreams of doing when she grows up. And neither did ...
Remodelling her future.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BEING crowned Miss Bollywood IPL South Africa amid much fanfare at the closing ceremony at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, was an unforgettable experience for Dune Kossatz. Draped in a sheer red chiffon sari - a creation by fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani - Kossatz never imagined ...
Barney and co in welcome return.(Entertainment)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Lara de Matos There were raised eyebrows aplenty when the show first came to our screens, with your typical team of naysayer critics deeming it a dud before they'd actually set eyes on a single episode. But before you could say "who's your daddy?" (or, more ...
Cash flows down the drain on incomplete pool job - or is more owed?(Classified)
Jun 01, 2009 ... JOSEPH BOOYSEN Consumer Reporter AFTER paying Poolwise of Milnerton nearly R40 000, Willy Brandl of Tableview says he is still waiting for his new pool to be completed. But Poolwise owner Bruce Mutch says the pool is complete as far as his responsibility ...
Who will win: football or business?Only the real lovers of football will still be around after the 2010 hullabaloo has died down, argues Cheryl Roberts.(News)(Obituary)
Jun 01, 2009 ... When Fifa finally brought itself round to awarding the lucrative football World Cup Finals to an African country it did so knowing it could extract much money from this major corporate and media event. That's because even before South Africa's agreement with Fifa was signed, the ...
Chapman's Peak closures are an unnecessary waste.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... It is obvious when you drive along the section of Chapman's Peak on the Hout Bay side that the work being undertaken is a complete waste and is unnecessary. Entilini appears to have mastered the knack of keeping the road closed - and is being compensated for this. It is making ...
It is time to create incentives for investments into our poorest areas.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Korean peninsula has become ever more dangerous as the dictatorship on the northern side of the border ups the stakes with bigger nuclear tests. At night, though, it is abundantly clear which side of that border you'd rather be on - the south. As the sun goes down, South ...
French police train SAPS for 2010.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MICHELLE PIETERSEN French officers are training close to 1 000 Western Cape police officers to manage crowds at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup. The South African Police Services asked the French government for help because of France's experience as a World ...
SA 'has a woeful hate-crime record'; Call for government to pass fresh legislation.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: FRANCIS HWESHE SOUTH AFRICA stands out as one of the worst countries in the world in dealing with xenophobia, according Dr Zonke Majodina, deputy chairwoman of the South African Human Rights Commission. She urged the government to consider fresh legislation ...
How to live with paradox in SA.(Life)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Since the release of his Ways of Staying, a few weeks ago Kevin Bloom has been compared to Rian Malan. But this does him a disservice. Malan is an extraordinary writer, but Bloom has his own unique voice. Perhaps the most marked difference is that Bloom is an optimist. ...
Attaboy, Max! W Cape mess is ANC's own fault.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Hail the King! Max du Preez has done it yet again. He hits the nail "op die kop" in his Thursday column (May 28), the bottom line being that the ANC is washed up in the Western Cape as a result of its own doing, not Helen Zille's. Governance and service delivery in the Western ...
We in the Western Cape vote for expertise.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Sonny Tyatyam bemoans the fact that the Western Cape used to be a coloured preferential area (May 28), as if coloured people had something to do with apartheid laws. When those laws were introduced in the 1950s we were still reeling from 180 years of slavery and the genocide of ...
Plato, DA must stick to law or be prosecuted.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... MAYOR Dan Plato claims that his Cape Town city administration lawfully demolished shacks in Macassar Village because they were "still being erected and not occupied". The people whose shacks were destroyed vigorously contest Plato's claim that their shacks were not fully erected ...
Lions evoke memories of a country in flux.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Memories bristle and pop as spools of innocence, anger and hope unwind through decades of British and Irish Lions rugby tours to South Africa. For memory is often retrieved like film, and we remember the moments, the emotions, the atmosphere that characterise the time reflected ...
Added protection for businesses as rent-a-cop project gets a boost.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: LAVERN DE VRIES THE CAPE Town Central Im-provement District (CID) is ex-pected to receive four addition-al law enforcement officers today, after the success of the rent-a-cop pilot project that saw businesses hiring four metro cops to safeguard their business district. ...
Last Laugh.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... I always considered my father to be a wise philosopher. He said such profound things. Well, I thought they were profound until I actually thought about them, then I realised what a complete idiot I was to be caught by them. He'd look up at the baking, cloudless Karoo ...
Adele Parks scores big with sassy new chick-lit novel.(Life)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Lovers of chick-lit will be thrilled by Adele Parks's sassy new novel Love Lies. Just in case you don't know what chick-lit is, Wikipedia defines it as "a term used to denote genre fiction within women's fiction written for young women, especially single, working women in their ...
New homes with a sea view for Boulders penguins.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JOHN YELD THE property market may have crashed in most parts of the country but at Boulders it's booming. Well, booming in the Table Mountain National Park-managed Boulders penguin colony. And the houses that are so in demand are artificial nest ...
Plan to tackle multibillion-rand health crisis - Zille.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: HEALTH WRITER The provincial Department of Health is in crisis, with an R800 million maintenance backlog and infrastructure requirements running to at least R5.8 billion, Premier Helen Zille has said. Zille raised these concerns during her state of the ...
Metro chief to focus on drug crimes.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: LAVERN DE VRIES Cape Town's new Metro Police chief, Robert Young, said he would make drug-related crimes his first priority when he took office on July 1. His primary management objective would be the creation of an "integrated" Metro Police unit that would ...
Hundreds of volunteer positions up for grabs.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: CLAYTON BARNES CAPETONIANS interested in volunteering for duty during Fifa's final draw in December, and for the World Cup, can apply from next month. The city needs 600 volunteers for the final draw on December 4, and 1 000 more for the soccer showpiece next ...
Poetry contest opens.(Life)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Staff Reporter Britain's Poetry Society has launched the opening of its national poetry competition, part of its centenary year celebrations. The competition aims to uncover exciting new talent and celebrate the work of well-known writers. Poems are judged ...
George aims to be call centre capital of SA.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: GERSHWIN WANNEBURG George in the southern Cape is known as a sleepy hollow with sweeping beauty. But locals hope that it will also become a new hub for the lucrative call centre industry, with its blend of infrastructure and educated populace. ...
Rapagadie raped girl, 11, court told.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JADE WITTEN PHILEMON Rapagadie, convicted of attempting to murder his wife last year, has been identified as the man charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl who later had his child. Rapagadie, 49, pleaded not guilty in the Parow Regional Court on Friday ...
Delft woman accused of killing her daughter.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: JADE WITTEN A DELFT mother, who is accused of murdering her daughter earlier this year, has made a brief appearance in the Bellville Magistrate's Court. Isabel Louw, 42, of Leiden, Delft, was arrested on March 6 after she allegedly killed her 24-year-old ...
Whale carcasses could draw in sharks - NSRI.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: FRANCIS HWESHE National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) volunteers are monitoring Long Beach in Kommetjie for more carcasses after 55 false killer whales beached themselves there at the weekend. Meanwhile, surfers and bathers have been warned to watch out for ...
Flower petals in farewell to Montesha, 10; Although her body has not been found, family and friends 'strongly' believe she was killed.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NIEMAH DAVIDS THE FAMILY and friends of missing 10-year-old Montesha Kekana, who disappeared from Saldanha almost two weeks ago "strongly" believe the child was murdered and held a memorial service for her yesterday. Police believe Montesha was abducted, ...
Collision in Khayelitsha leaves six people hurt.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: STAFF REPORTER SIX people escaped with minor injuries after a taxi and a VW Golf collided on Mew Way near Khayelitsha yesterday morning. Police spokeswoman, inspector Sipokazi Mawisa said the incident occurred just before 4am. Mawisa said according ...
Upmarket restaurants feeling recession's pinch.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: GERSHWIN WANNEBURG EVEN upmarket restaurants are beginning to feel the bite of the recession. Up to now, those who frequent top-end restaurants were considered relatively immune to the testing economic climate. But a growing list of fancy eateries ...
Shack fire leaves more than 100 homeless.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NIEMAH DAVIDS MORE than 100 people have been left homeless after a fire tore through a part of Masi-phumelele in the Noordhoek valley. Theo Lyne of the regional fire station control room said about 20 structures had beendestroyed in the fire yesterday. ...
Metro Police tear down shacks despite interdict.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: NOMANGESI MBIZA Metro Police officials have torn down shacks of backyard dwellers living on city-owned land in Macassar Village in Strand despite a court interdict ordering them not to do so. Residents allege that Metro Police officials destroyed their shacks ...
Madiba grandson weighs action over funeral claim.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ELLA SMOOK NELSON Mandela's grandson Mandla says he is taking legal ac-tion over a newspaper report that he sold the broadcast rights to Ma-diba's funeral for R3 million. He said the issue was "heart-breaking" and he dismissed the report as "a blatant lie". ...
Tension brewing in townships over foreigners.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Francis Hweshe TENSION is brewing in townships over foreign-owned shops, with one local businessman threatening violence, while another slammed government for causing the conflict. And in the hope of neutralising what they fear is mounting hostility to ...
Housing for poor needs a total overhaul, says new MEC.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANDISIWE MAKINANA The system of housing in the Western Cape faces a complete overhaul as new Housing MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela prepares to deal with severe budget constraints and a shambolic waiting list. The province's Department of Housing appears set for a ...
New offer from The Guardian in Zuma action.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ELLA SMOOK PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma is considering a British newspaper's improved settlement offer after he rejected its earlier "inadequate" apology, says his legal spokeswoman Liesl Gottert. Zuma instituted a defamation action against The Guardian in the High ...
Rugby.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... l Why was TV ref not used in Sevens rugby final? We wuz robbed. l I sincerely hope that the Stormers' big brass have taken note of the new standard required to win the Super 14. The Bulls have lifted the bar substantially, and, on the evidence of the 2009 season, the Stormers ...
Mbete favourite to head policy unit.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: SIBUSISO NGALWA Former deputy president and ANC national chairwoman Baleka Mbete may become the head of a new policy institute to be set up by the ruling party, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has hinted. Mantashe told the Cape Argus the ruling party ...
Staff shortage impedes maintenance.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... A CRITICAL shortage in professional managers and skilled technicians, especially engineers, at provincial and municipal level is a major contributor to the poor state of South Africa's roads, says the Financial and Fiscal Commission. The commission cites the results of a study ...
Bafana wanta fit Pienaar; Coach Santana hoping Everton midfielder stays free from injury.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: rodney reiners Steven Pienaar is expected to join the Bafana Bafana camp tomorrow as preparations for the Fifa Confederations Cup continue. Pienaar was in action for his English Premier League club, Everton, in Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in the FA Cup ...
Terry urges the boss to build on Cup win - with [pounds sterling]75m war-chest.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... JOHN TERRY last night urged Roman Abramovich to spend [pounds sterling]75 million this summer signing the superstars to turn Chelsea into a major force again in the Premier League. In a remarkable interview after Terry lifted the FA Cup at Wembley, the Chelsea skipper said the ...
Clued-up Smith's experience givesProteas edge in hunt for World T20.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: ZAAHIER ADAMS and SAPA WHEN Stuart Robertson, then marketing manager of the England and Wales Cricket Board, managed to convince 11 of the 18 county chairmen in 2001 to vote in favour of a 20-overs-per-innings proposal to deliver fast-paced, exciting cricket accessible ...
George Bizos to have surgery for brain trauma.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Human rights lawyer George Bizos SC, 80, is to be operated on at Milpark Hospital in Joburg to remove fluid around his brain. His son, Professor Damon Bizos, said the operation is scheduled for tomorrow. His father's haematoma - a form of traumatic brain injury ...
ATHLETICS.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Hypo Meeting, IAAF World Challenge event Moesle Stadium, Goetziz, Austria- Final day Decathlon: 1 Michael Schrader (Ger) 8,522 points, 2 Trey Hardee (US) 8,516, 3 Pascal Behrenbruch (Ger) 8,374. Heptathlon: 1 Nataliya Dobrynska (Ukr) 6,558 points, 2 Hanna Melnychenko ...
Zim's MDC calls for SADC summit to discuss deadlock.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Stanley Gama HARARE: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has called for an immediate summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to resolve outstanding issues that have stalled the nearly four-month-old unity ...
'Loch Ness monster'found at coast.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... LONDON: A relative of the Loch Ness monster has turned up on Britain's south coast. But there's no chance of this one popping up from the depths for an enigmatic photograph. ...
Aiming for 20-overs success: How the teams shape up.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Australia may rule the world in 50-overs cricket, having won the World Cup three consecutive times, but the Aussies are still finding their feet in the shortest format of the game. STRENGTHS Australia's knowledge of the English conditions will be a major advantage ....
Stoner's tyre strategy pays off.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... CASEY Stoner held off the fast-finishing Jorge Lorenzo to win the Italian Grand Prix yesterday and bring to an end Valentino Rossi's seven-year reign in Italy. The Australian also took over the lead in the world championship standings with his second win of the season, having ...
Politics.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... l Zille, the ANC did not ask you for an olive branch. Offer it to the ACDP. l Julius Malema, bring more and they'll stand on the corners like all the rest. I will not employ them. l Mr Zuma, isn't it about time you called your little lapdog and Mini-Me Julius Malema ...
Gay blitzes to 200m victory.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... REIGNING world champion Tyson Gay ran the third-fastest time ever in the 200 metres in winning in 19.58 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York on Saturday. The only faster times are Usain Bolt's 2008 world record of 19.30 and Michael Johnson's 19.32 in 1996. It ...
In the English Press...(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Barcelona are poised to offer [pounds sterling]40m for Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas. (Sunday Mirror) Manchester United could bid [pounds sterling]15m for Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar as a replacement for Carlos Tevez. (The People) Wigan and ...
Ferrari ultimatum pressures FIA.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... FERRARI'S decision to sign up conditionally for the 2010 Formula One championship does not imply any eventual acceptance of a budget cap, says team boss Stefano Domenicali. "Absolutely not," he said. "The request to make the 2009 regulations the starting point, means there will ...
SA's 'poor' roads face crisis - commission; Country well below global standard.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: GAYE DAVIS About 60 percent of South Africa's road network is in a "poor or very poor" condition, compared to the recommended international benchmark of 10 percent, says the Financial and Fiscal Commission. And badly maintained roads are costing road-users a ...
Petersen is Tovey'snumber 2.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Former Cape Town football legend Calvin Petersen has been appointed as assistant-coach at Durban PSL club, AmaZulu. Petersen will be the number two to head coach Neil Tovey, the former Bafana skipper who led the country to African Nations Cup glory in 1996. AmaZulu ...
ANC knows where money went, says Boesak.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: MURRAY WILLIAMS CLERIC Allan Boesak has again alleged that the ANC "knows where the money went", in reference to the missing funds for which he was jailed for fraud. Boesak, now a member of the Western Cape provincial legislature for the Congress of the ...
Minister told to pay after cops shoot man in back.(News)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THE CAPE High Court has found the Minister for Safety and Security liable for damages suffered by a Lower Crossroads man who was paralysed after police shot him in the back. The minister claimed that police had shot Mawethu Lucky Klaas in ...
Long season gets longer for Proteas.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BYLINE: Sports Staff and Sapa-AFP South Africa begin their assault on the World Twenty20 title in England with a warm-up match against Pakistan at Trent Bridge in Nottingham today. The Proteas are coming off a long season, with 12 of the 15-man squad also having ...
At the French Open today (fourth round).(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Centre Court 24-Aleksandra Wozniak (Canada) v 2-Serena Williams (US) Tommy Haas (Germany) v 2-Roger Federer (Switzerland) 5-Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) v 9-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) Virginie Razzano (France) v Samantha Stosur (Australia) ...
Veteran Stoltz toface Lions.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Two new locks will run on for the Golden Lions in Wednesday night's match against the touring British and Irish Lions in Johannesburg. New Lions coach Hans Coetzee has opted for the inclusion of veteran ex-Stormers player Willem Stoltz, 34, and former Boland lock Brad Mockford ...
Today's TV highlights.(Sports)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Athletics Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Netherlands, 4.30pm on SS 7 and SS Maximo Cricket World Twenty20 warm-up matches: Australia v Bangladesh, Trent Bridge, 2.15pm on SS 2; Ireland v Netherlands, Lord's, 2.15pm on ...