Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from October 2006:
Computing biology data.(Workplace)
Oct 02, 2006 ... What does your job entail? A bio-informaticist can be described as a computational biologist. We write software to answer specific biological questions, and support other biological researchers by making sense of the mounds of biological data gathered by representing it in a computational ...
How to become a bio-informaticist.(Workplace)
Oct 02, 2006 ... This is a job for people who are fascinated by biology and technology, and are not afraid of mathematics. A recent explosion of freely available biological information generated by global collaborations such as the Human Genome Sequencing Project has brought about a revolution ...
Unemployed fishing graduates grab the job bait.(Workplace)
Oct 02, 2006 ... THIRTEEN formerly unemployed graduates are among the first batch of South Africans to qualify for top jobs in the commercial fishing industry. They have been sponsored by Oceana, a leading South African fishing company, to take part in a top level skills development training ...
UCT business school devises short course in negotiating skills.(Workplace)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The UCT Graduate School of Business will present a short course to equip dealmakers with the negotiating skills to turn tough stand-offs into win-win situations. Course director Barney Jordaan says this is the first programme of its kind on offer by a Western Cape university. ...
Melodic Bev admits being romantic.(Life)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: JANE MAYNE THERE are nuances of Renee Olstead, Katie Melua and Tina Schouw in Bev Scott-Brown's delivery. This melodic singer's It's the Little Things debut is a wholesome, muted jazz release full of romantic ballads. Born in Gauteng, Scott-Brown completed ...
UK actress plays wealthy vamp.(Life)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: PETER TROMP The highly stylised film form known as noir seems to be back on the cultural radar with a bang. Filmmaker Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia will be released in South Africa next week, and in Cape Town, local filmmaker Gregg Watt is putting the ...
Adventure adaptation.(Life)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Mark Brown's adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around The World In 80 Days, directed by Alan Swerdlow, is at Theatre On The Bay until October 8. It stars Graham Hopkins, Theo Landey, Nicholas Pauling, Johan Baird and Greg Homan. Book, call 021 438 3300. Que-Tropha is a ...
Airport delays.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... With reference to the article regarding delays at Cape Town International Airport (September 26), Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) would like to point out that the report is completely misleading and creates the wrong impression. As far as on-time departure reliability in ...
national monuments Damaged.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH MUIZENBERG has been hit by widespread copper theft that has cost the community and City of Cape Town thousand of rand, while the thieves make only a fairly small sum from the sale of their plunder. Eight of the 20 national monument plaques ...
'Horse and cart brigade' behind rash of metal thefts.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH AN engineering firm in Oude Molen on the western border of Pinelands has been hit repeatedly by a "horse and cart brigade" who have broken into the property to steal machinery and other metal items. Don Nash, who owns Dennes Engineering, ...
Cape Times art critic nominated for award.(Life)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: ARTS WRITER THE finalists have been announced for the 8th Annual Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Awards. The ACT Journalist Award recognises a journalist who regularly writes with excellence about arts and culture. The finalists are Diane Helen Coetzer, ...
Mad Hatter time at the Nellie.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Get your haute couture out and your hats on - it's Mad Hatter time at the Mount Nelson Hotel this Friday from 2pm. Join in the craziness of this celeb-studded event, held in association with fashion house Philosophy; Champagne House; Veuve Clicquot, and leave your hat on in support of ...
Pakistani realpolitics.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, finds himself under an unprecedented degree of scrutiny. He stands accused by the president of neighbouring Afghanistan of turning a blind eye while his security services aid the Taliban, and of ignoring the fact that many Pakistani ...
Museum teases treasure from trashed fashions.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... LOS ANGELES: It's no small feat, teasing out historical significance from two of fashion's most maligned decades, especially when they happened, what, two seconds ago? Yet, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) new costume exhibition lines up proof that the trashy 1980s and the ...
To try and unseat Zille is to strike at the core of democracy.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... In 1994 I voted for the ANC, and have done so consistently in every election since. I regard myself as a staunch supporter of the ANC, and it is not easy to criticise one's own in public - except where constitutional principles and the principles of the ANC are under threat. ...
DA divides.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Amidst the hubris over the attempts to dismiss Helen Zille and the unrepresentative minuscule parties that support her to give her majorities of one, if this can be called a majority, the political parties are losing sight of the larger political issues, showing a lack of political ...
Cheap debate.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... David Hersch's letter ("Kasrils is a caricaturist", September 27) is an example of the cheap and lazy ad hominem school of debate. The substance of the issue is blithely ignored as the player and not the ball is maliciously kicked. I gave a ...
State grants could pave a way out of crippling poverty.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Adrian di Lollo Democratic Alliance MP Ryan Coetzee ("Let's be a nation of excellence where we grasp opportunities, not handouts", September 26) makes a number of dubious assumptions which require closer examination. In claiming that "poor black South Africans are mostly ...
REDUCTION ACHIEVED IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMMUNITIES.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Leonard Ramatlakane The crime statistics recently released by the South African Police Service have raised many questions about our ability to deal with crime. Headlines across the province have dismissed any claim by those releasing the results that we were ...
Hamstringing Helen.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... I am absolutely flabbergasted that the ANC, in the form of local government MEC Richard Dyantyi, is trying to hamstring Helen Zille and the DA who won a fairly contested election. If, as Dyantyi claims, the DA only represents 51% of the voters of Cape Town, how many votes did the ANC lay ...
Manto's 'nonsense'.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... How much nonsense must we still tolerate from minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang in her confused leadership in the fight against HIV/Aids? I really do not know how anyone can afford to purchase some of the health products she advocates. A 750ml bottle of different ...
Psoriasis Day.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... October 29 is World Psoriasis Day. It's the second most common skin disorder in the world, and probably the most uncomfortable! Yet ignorance on psoriasis is frightening because there is no media awareness or exposure on psoriasis at all. There is no cure, and because there is ...
Nostalgic review.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Thank you for the article in Review by Alf Wannenburgh on the glory days of the bioscope in Cape Town (September 26). I found it so evocative, and had such a weird sense of deja vu that I feel many other Capetonians must also look back with the happiest of memories to that magic ...
Crime and punishment.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... WE WEEP with the family of four-year-old Makgabo Matlala, whose killers were found guilty last week of her murder. And, like her family, we are angry about the apparently endless wave of violent crime that seems to be engulfing South Africa. But we cannot support ...
Getting old gracefully is hard if you can't turn your head.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The wonderful thing about getting older is that you begin to understand why it is that older people behave the way they do, and you begin to be less tolerant of younger people who don't behave like you do. It's like being your parents, but only better - this time you're in ...
Homeless World Cup 'the best yet'.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: WESLEY APRIL SA's hosting of the fourth Homeless Soccer World Cup has been the best yet, and would be hard to emulate, said the event's president, Mel Young. "There have been some fabulous moments in Cape Town and wonderful, exciting matches played with ...
Association set up to help black businesswomen make their way.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... THE Black Business Women's Association has been launched to create an enabling work environment for black business women in the Western Cape. The not-for-profit organisation comprises about 500 women and has four major focuses: a ...
Thoughts of Woodstock dissipated in the rain as Darling rock festival plays to small crowd.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH ALTHOUGH the earth did not rock in Tulbagh at the weekend, rock was in the air on a farm at the nearby town of Darling, where hundreds of young people gathered at the Rocking the Daisies music festival. The three-day event featured 21 ...
SANBS to accept blood from 'celibate' gay men.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: SAPA and STAFF WRITER The SA National Blood Service (SANBS) is to allow gay men who have been celibate for six months to donate blood from November 1, SABC radio reported yesterday. The SANBS said this was one of the changes in a more streamlined ...
Minister's vegetable basket can actually slow down ARV treatment, congress told.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THERE is no substitute for anti-retrovirals (ARVs) in the treatment of HIV/Aids, and the African potato - widely prescribed by the minister of health - may in fact lower ARV effectiveness by up to 80%, according to Kas Kasongo, HIV/Aids doctor, educator at ...
Too many young women believe feminism is about keeping up with men.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Thokozile Budaza As a young woman in today's Africa, I often feel like I belong to a doomed generation. Because of the Aids epidemic, we are the girls who have to stay away from school to take care of our families; we are the youth who get buried by their grandmothers; ...
Tulbagh recalls quake in festivity instead of dread.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE earth may not have moved, but partying residents caused a few tremors of their own in Tulbagh on Friday night, on the anniversary of the earthquake that nearly destroyed the town in 1969. The local Dutch Reformed Church has had improved ...
No foul play, say police after man drowns in dam.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER POLICE are investigating the death of a Ladysmith man who is believed to have drowned in a dam on his way home from visiting friends in the area. The body of Dawid Quantiny, 45, was discovered in the dam on Saturday morning by a friend he visited ...
Woman stabs her partner to death.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A 36-year-old Prince Albert woman was taken to hospital in shock after her partner was stabbed in their home and died on Friday - but is now under arrest and is to appear in court. ...
DA 'our principal enemy' - Cosatu.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE DA is "our principal enemy", says Cosatu, which this weekend endorsed the ANC's move to "take back power" in the city. After an adjourned provincial congress meeting on Saturday that was closed to the media, Cosatu released the following ...
shoprite store attacked.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Mitchell's Plain calls in Red Ants AZIZ HARTLEY SECURITY guards armed with crowbars, dubbed Red Ants and brought to the Western Cape from Gauteng to counter violent protests at Shoprite Checkers branches in townships, have been deployed to Mitchell's Plain. ...
killed while opening store.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY A SOMALI shopkeeper has been shot dead while preparing to open his store, bringing to 32 the number of Somalis murdered in the Western Cape in the past two months. Abdi Muhamad, 21, was shot dead in his shop at his home in Palm Street, Delft ...
ANC bungled municipal border spat, admits Limpopo premier.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare Limpopo Premier Sello Moloto said the ANC bungled the cross-boundary disputes that triggered violent reaction last year - the first senior leader to publicly admit to mismanagement of the issue. Delivering his political report at the ANC's ...
'service delivery at risk'.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare ANC secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe has accused President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet of deviating from policies and unilaterally taking decisions without accounting to the party. If this continued, service delivery would suffer, Motlanthe told ...
Police force late-night clubs to close early.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: GEOFF BOUGH Green Point late-night club Sliver was forced by police to close early on Saturday morning despite having a licence to be open. Police entered Sliver shortly after 4am demanding that the music be stopped and the club be closed. Two owners and a ...
Dugmore 'looks forward' to school violence report.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: A'EYSHA KASSIEM EDUCATION MEC Cameron Dugmore is "looking forward" to the findings of the SA Human Rights Commission's report on school-based violence, said his spokesman Gert Witbooi yesterday. "We want to know what their recommendations are and will take ...
Dangerous manifesto pledge.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The new leader of the British opposition Conservative Party has ruled out fighting the next election on a promise of tax cuts. David Cameron's pledge could lead to a clash with his party, which has traditionally supported the cuts. Hungarians voted in local elections in a test ...
Toll in Somali clan clashes reaches 21.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... At least 21 people have been killed and several others wounded in clashes between two Somali clans over land ownership in a village that is in southeastern Ethiopia, but near the Somali border. A four-storey building has collapsed in Sherbin, Dakahliya, 120km northeast of Cairo, ...
School destroyed.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Hundreds of pupils at an Eastern Cape school will have nowhere to sit today after their school building collapsed during torrential rains last week, SABC news reported. All classrooms for Grades 3 to 7 at the Mvilo Junior Secondary School at Zinduneni were destroyed. Only one mud hut (for ...
Muir believes Sharks can break 'Bloem bogey'.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Sharks coach Dick Muir tends to see rugby from a different perspective to most folk, and this weekend's Absa Currie Cup semifinal against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein is no different. While many are regarding the Sharks' return to that venue - ...
Valkenberg holds up Olivier trial.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: JO-ANN BEKKER KNYSNA: Alleged child killer Theuns Olivier, 47, has made another brief appearance in the Knysna District Court while he awaits a bed for psychiatric evaluation. On Friday, state prosecutor Shane Lewis said Olivier was 26th on the waiting list ...
Children to benefit at False Bay Ecology Park.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY ENVIRONMENT-conscious children are to have the benefit of an education centre set up in the heart of a bird paradise at Zeekoevlei. The False Bay Ecology Park was opened at the weekend in a formerly derelict building used by the Cape Flats ...
'No pressure on Province'.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STEPHEN NELL Western Province coach Kobus van der Merwe believes all the pressure will be on the Blue Bulls in their semifinal at Loftus at the weekend. The Bulls underlined their status as South Africa's form team with a 41-31 win over the Cheetahs on ...
Greeff makes his mark in 40 minutes.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STEPHEN NELL Werner Greeff showed i n 40 minutes against Griquas that he could be a major force for Western Province for the remainder of the Currie Cup. Most critics believe that will last only one match - this weekend's semifinal against the Blue Bulls at ...
Tulbagh rocks as residents await predicted earthquake.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH SCORES of Tulbagh residents and visitors partied the night away on Friday, waiting for an earthquake that never happened. Earthquake parties were held all over the town on Friday, on the anniversary of the devastating 1969 earthquake that ...
Paws, claws hoofs and hands unite city blessing.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE Company's Garden was abuzz as dogs of all shapes and sizes, a hamster and brightly coloured parrot gathered at yesterday's blessing of the animals. This year's blessing of the animals service was organised jointly for the first time by St ...
Zondeki's pace provides some hope for Cobras.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: MICHAEL OWEN-SMITH The Cobras got an unpleasant preview of what a gap the absence of Charl Willoughby and Alan Dawson is going to leave in their new-ball resources in their four-wicket MTN domestic championship defeat to the Titans at Centurion on Friday night. ...
Pitso hoping 'Zuma the Puma' can ease Bafana's striker crisis.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: FAROUK ABRAHAMS Interim Bafana Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane will today call up Sibusiso Zuma for Sunday's African Nations Cup clash with Zambia in Lusaka. Mosimane has a serious crisis in the striker department ahead of the crucial tie, with Glen Salmon and ...
SA punching below its weight on the issue of UN Security Council reform.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... South Africa used to be praised for punching above its weight diplomatically. But last week, a senior Indian diplomat said SA was now punching below its weight on the issue of United Nations Security Council reform. By that he meant that SA was not using its natural ...
Heavy rain warning for Southern Cape.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... A WARNING has been issued to municipalities in the Southern Cape of possible heavy rains. The Weather SA website warned that heavy falls of are to be expected in the Overberg, Breede River Valley, Ruens, Garden Route and the Little Karoo. Southern Cape disaster ...
Benoni slam four goals past Santos.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: THABO SHIRINDA Sello Mhlambi stole the show as he led Benoni Premier United to an emphatic 4-0 win over Santos in a Castle Premiership match at the Germiston Stadium yesterday. The striker scored a brace to set up the promoted Ekurhuleni side's first win in the top ...
Chiefs finally manage to halt the slide.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: KAMLESH GOSAI Kaizer Chiefs brought an end to the worst league start in their history by surviving an onslaught from Lamontville Golden Arrows to eke out their first Castle Premiership victory of the season at the Chatsworth Stadium yesterday. Two second-half ...
2010 stadiums to cost four times the 2004 estimate.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... South Africa faces a total cost of R8.352 billion for the construction of five new stadiums and the renovation of a further five for the 2010 World Cup finals, organisers said yesterday. The cost is almost four times as much as the R2.3 billion estimate made in 2004 when the ...
Top brass pay homage to 'golden oldies', builders of the city.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: A'EYSHA KASSIEM 'GOLDEN oldies' was more than just a term for the type of music played on Greenmarket Square yesterday where more than 100 elderly gathered to celebrate National Grandparent's Day. Whether accompanied by walking sticks, wearing a cowboy hat or ...
'Nice to see 'the fruits of 'hard labour'.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: SAPA-AFP Tiger Woods carded a last round 67 to win the World Golf Championship event here yesterday by eight shots from England's Ian Poulter and Adam Scott of Australia. Woods was 23-under for the tournament and did not need to extend himself after taking a ...
Cricket.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 02, 2006 ... MTN DOMESTIC CHAMPIONSHIP TITANS v CAPE COBRAS Pretoria CAPE COBRAS A Bacher b Nel 0 A Puttick c de Villiers b Thomas 26 H Gibbs lbw b Thomas 64 J Duminy c de Villiers b Nel 6 ...
DA 'our principal enemy' - Cosatu.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE DA is "our principal enemy", says Cosatu, which this weekend endorsed the ANC's move to "take back power" in Cape Town. After an adjourned provincial congress meeting on Saturday that was closed to the media, Cosatu released the following ...
Dangerous manifesto pledge.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The new leader of the British opposition Conservative Party has ruled out fighting the next election on a promise of tax cuts. David Cameron's pledge could lead to a clash with his party, which has traditionally supported the cuts. Hungarians voted in local elections in a test ...
Heavy rain warning for Southern Cape.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... A WARNING of possible heavy rain has been issued to municipalities in the Southern Cape. The Weather SA website has warned that heavy falls are to be expected in the Overberg, Breede River Valley, Ruens, Garden Route and the Little Karoo. Southern Cape disaster ...
Police make late-night clubs close early.(News)
Oct 02, 2006 ... BYLINE: GEOFF BOUGH Green Point late-night club Sliver was closed early by police on Saturday morning although it had a licence to be open. Police entered Sliver shortly after 4am and demanded that the music be stopped and the club closed. Two owners and a manager ...