Recently added articles from Cape Times (South Africa):
engaging group show.(Life)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Exhibition: Monomania at Goodman Gallery Cape until September 6. Melvyn Minnaar reviews. There's no doubt about the meaning of the delicious word that headlines this group show when one steps into the area occupied by the curiosities assembled by Arie Kuijers. Simply ...
'Wow!' Baxter's Dance Festival a remarkable feat.(Life)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Baxter Dance Festival and Cinedans Festival. Co-ordin-ated by Nicolette Moses. Sheila Chisholm reviews. IF SCORES of enthusiastic, energetic dancers and a packed auditorium is the yardstick for success, then Nicolette Moses, organiser of the Baxter Theatre's fourth Dance ...
Erwin to outline Eskom's way forwardat Cape Times Safmarine breakfast.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... THE Cape Times and Safmarine will host Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin at a breakfast function in Cape Town early next month. Eskom has made headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past two years, and terms like "rolling blackouts" and "load shedding" have become ...
Regional court totry man accused of stabbing Skwatsha.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE CASE against a man suspected of stabbing ANC provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha in the Worcester Town Hall two months ago has been transferred from the town's magistrate's court to the regional court. Ndikho Tyawana, 30, ap- peared in the ...
government delays almost sank project.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY ABOUT 350 families from Masiphumelele informal settlement near Kommetjie are moving temporarily off land they occupy while formal houses are built for them. The nearby temporary site was a hive of activity as people set up their shacks and ...
Schools to perform at Arts Festival Gala Concert tomorrow.(Life)
Aug 27, 2008 ... ARTSCAPE has announced the 15 schools invited to perform at tomorrow's School Arts Festival Gala Concert at Artscape. The Athlone Academy of Music's 20-piece Big Band will perform Chuck Magione works, and the Steelpan Band of the Hawston Secondary School in Hermanus will ...
Puppetry festival.(Life)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Out The Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Theatre will feature free stop-motion and puppet animation films at the Moving Things Film Festival at Labia on Orange from Friday until September 7 at 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. Workshops will be held on stop-frame animation. See www.unima.za.org ...
Picking order.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Rugby these days is no longer a 15-man, but a 22-man game, and having the right seven players on the bench can be as important as having the best 15 on the field. However, I have noticed that picking players for the wrong reasons adversely affects the morale of Springbok teams, and perhaps ...
Incredible delay.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... It was great to see John McGhie congratulating the Department of Home Affairs on the major improvement in its service (August 25). We felt the same way when we applied for our son's passport in May; the application process was handled very professionally and quickly. It then ...
Insistence on change is destroying World Cup champions.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... As the recriminations intensify in the wake of our failed Tri-Nations campaign, a favourite theory rapidly taking hold by way of explanation is that our playing style must change as a result of the experimental law variations (ELVs), and that it may be necessary to undertake a wholesale ...
Blame the ANC.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... In terms of our country's Constitution, fighting crime is the responsibility of the South African Police Service (SAPS), which is a national and provincial government responsibility. So it was interesting to see that the letter by B Wiltshire ("Time for action", August 25) ...
Leadership vacuum.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... With newspapers full of criticism of our rugby and Olympic performances and the TV showing Barack Obama's march to the White House, my thoughts turned to the effects of good leadership. We often see the likes of Obama and George Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and others, and I cannot help ...
Wishful thinking.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Student politics and the outcome of any election for a student representative council can never be compared to real-life politics. The issues students face on their campuses vary. For students at UCT, the issue of parking might be a bigger concern and for the students at UWC, ...
palpable unfairness threatens peace and stability.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... In today's article in our series, MARCELLA NAIDOO, Black Sash national director, calls for a comprehensive review of social security as a way to tackle the poverty and inequality that threaten South Africa's democracy. My son turned 16 last week. He would have been just over a ...
Lavish spectacle.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former head of the International Olympic Committee who helped to engineer Beijing's successful bid to host the Games, was quick to dub the extravaganza "the best Olympics ever" as the proceedings closed on Sunday. Such pronouncements are as subjective ...
The test of our policies should be job creation and undoing poverty.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... BYLINE: Tony Ehrenreich We can't remain trapped in orthodox thinking if we are to find solutions to the problems that we face and realise the endless possibilities of our nation. In the aftermath of Polokwane, we must review our policy mix to ensure that it meets our ...
Houseparty.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... THE SWEARING-IN of members of the Zimbabwean parliament and the historic election of a non-Zanu-PF politician as Speaker of the house represent the start of a new era for a country desperate for political and economic stability. For the first time in 28 years, the majority party ...
The fabled career of a tough-as-teak tug in days when shipping was big news.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... Eighty-three years ago today, Atlantic coast residents would have noted first a smudge of smoke on the horizon and, as the craft approached the port, they would have seen TS McEwen, one of the world's most powerful tugs at the time, arriving on her maiden voyage. She had masses ...
Out of control.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... No more Rainbow Nation; sadly, we've become the violent nation. Is violence the solution to any of South Africa's problems? I would like to believe it is not. However, statistics suggest otherwise. Violence has taken root in the Rainbow Nation mainly due to the lack ...
Park guides protest over proposed wage cut.(News)
Aug 27, 2008 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH A GROUP of former Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) trail guides are accusing the organisation of racist labour practices and of trying to cut guides' salaries by 70% during contract negotiations. The guides, who say they spent three years ...