Recently added articles from Cape Times (South Africa):
Biowatch case shows NGOs can ensure environmental laws are applied.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: Jan Glazewski The opening sentence of the recently publicised Constitutional Court judgment in the Biowatch case states: "This case is all about costs awards, and only about costs awards." However, the judgment delivered by Justice Sachs has ramifications which go ...
Silence on Palestinian suffering is deafening.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... The following is a response by Ronnie Kasrils to analysis by Milton Shain and David Saks Milton Shain and David Saks provide a hopelessly flawed analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Cape Times, June 22 and 25). Not surprising since they are blindly defensive of Israel, ...
DA wrong about report.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... The article, "DA blasts Parliament for failing to act on KPMG report into fraud allegations" (June 29), is misleading South Africans into believing that the presiding officers of Parliament have failed to act on the recommendations of the KPMG report. The Chief Whip of the ...
Arbitrary nature of 'Love' explored.(Life)
Jul 02, 2009 ... FIRST LOVE. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. With Conor Lovett. Written by Samuel Beckett. At the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio. Until Saturday. WILHELM SNYMAN reviews. WITH the 20th anniversary of Beckett's death coming up, the Baxter Theatre has aptly invited the Gare St Lazare ...
Innovation and diversity are keynotes for rising star.(Life)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: TYRONE AUGUST THE production The Mysteries: Ihlabathi Nenzaliseko Yalo, a musical rendition of biblical stories at the Baxter, is an innovative blend of styles and sounds. The duo behind it is musical directors Pauline Malefane and Mandisi Dyantyis. Malefane, ...
Uniting Africa.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... The 13th African Union Summit is currently under way in Sirte, Libya, under the theme "Investing in Agriculture for Economic and food Security". The ordinary session of the heads of state will deliberate over myriad issues affecting growth and development on the continent, focusing ...
Planetary demons.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... REVEREND Mark Christopher's diatribe against James Cunningham ("Christian caring", June 30) is disquieting. If the ideals that he is proposing are in fact the ideals of the Christian world then I have to question the survival of our planet. Much as we are loath to admit it, ...
Mandela and Botha talks shifted SA history on July 5, 1989.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... For many people, July 5, 2009, will be just another date on the calendar and yet 20 years ago, July 5, 1989, to be precise, history shifted on its pivot when PW Botha met Nelson Mandela, at the time the world's most famous political prisoner of conscience, for 30 undoubtedly electrifying ...
15-over par at bethpage must have gutted him.(Sports)
Jul 02, 2009 ... ERNIE ELS was on a flying visit to South Africa last weekend to watch the Bokke win the series against the Lions at Loftus. By all accounts, he was in a much better frame of mind. He had been bothered by his knee in recent times, but last week he was given the all-clear by a British ...
Farmers welcome investigation into inflated food prices.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: CRAIG McKUNE FARMERS say it is high time supermarkets are investigated for their role in inflated food prices. While the prices farmers get for their products plummet, the costs of basic foods continue to rise, several agriculture representatives have said. ...
Sequestrated Durbanville attorney's offices sold.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE upmarket offices of sequestrated Durbanville attorney Charles Miskey's liquidated law firm, Miskey Incorporated, have been auctioned for R4.4 million. The ClareMart Auction Group yesterday announced it had sold the complex in the ...
Within doctors' rights.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... Dr S Allie of Rylands (July 1) says it is no excuse for striking doctors to ask to be paid what they are worth. Why? Things have become increasingly expensive in today's world and this degree is an expensive one to do and it takes a very long time. Being altruistic doesn't pay ...
Judges must understand the responsibilities and also the limitations of power.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... Casting an eye over South Africa's democratic institutions, the words "flux" or "limbo" come to mind. New Human Rights commissioners are to be appointed and the SABC board was recently left with one person standing. The national commissioner of police has been suspended and his ...
What about teachers?(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... I applaud the doctors who are on strike for some things that rightfully should have been in place already. The same goes for educators. Before you can even think of a career - to become a doctor, an engineer or a specialist to cure blindness - you have to have a teacher. ...
Iraq for Iraqis.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... As the United States prepared to invade Iraq in 2003, then-secretary of state Colin Powell famously warned that "if you break it, you own it". In many ways, the US did break Iraq, ousting Saddam Hussein's quarter-century regime without ensuring that a stable government would take its ...
Doctors are selfish.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... Sean Wasserman's article (Cape Times, July 1) states doctors are striking to "save the system from sliding into chaos". With reports that health services at Western Cape hospitals have been affected during the strike, Wasserman's argument is tendentious and self-serving. The ...
Single mom support.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... A weekly single mom's support and therapy group will be held at 16 Oakdale Road, Newlands, during school term. There are places available in the Tuesday 4.45 to 6.15pm and Thursday 6.45 to 8.15pm groups. These are facilitated by a clinical psychologist. Call Monica at 021 7941577. ...
'No explanation' for rise in crimes against children.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY PROVINCIAL Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros says he is worried about the high number of abductions and crimes involving children. He said the fact that it was not clear why these crimes were continually happening added to his concerns. ...
Damning AG report finds sector policing in a shambles.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... BYLINE: ANEL LEWIS A DAMNING auditor-general's report has revealed a police service in disarray as it struggles to implement a sector policing policy that has been in draft form since 2002. Sector policing is an approach to policing whereby the service area of a ...
Tribesmen kill 28 in attack on Taliban hideouts.(News)
Jul 02, 2009 ... Tribesmen attacked Taliban hideouts in north-western Pakistan yesterday, killing 28 militants and suffering seven fatalities themselves, and the intensifying battles prompted them to ask for army troops to help, a local lawmaker said. A North Korean ship monitored for more than ...