Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from March 2007:
Ladies line up for Polaris Challenge.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Entries are streaming in for the second Polaris African Star Challenge quad-bike competition and at the moment, it seems as if it is the women who are determined to show their quad-riding capabilities, as many of the entries received so far are from female entrants. The Polaris ...
Downsized Demon debut at Geneva.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Motoring Staff The Dodge Demon Roadster concept car, which will be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show later this month, is a compact, nimble, two-seat rear-wheel drive "roadster with attitude". The idea of this concept is to create an affordable Dodge sports ...
Exciting rally season beckons.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Motoring Staff The 2007 South African National Rally season holds the promise of being one of the most exciting in more than ten years. This is the opinion of one of South Africa's most successful rally drivers ever, Serge Damseaux. Speaking from his home ...
Down Under thunder.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Denis Droppa Though the English invented cricket it's the Australians who perfected it. Likewise it was the Americans who invented the muscle car, but the Aussies have latched onto the concept with great gusto. As evidenced by cars such as the Chevrolet Lumina ...
Sunny days here again with TwinTop.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Motoring Staff Just in time for the last few weeks of summer, General Motors South Africa has expanded its Opel Astra range with a four-seat cabrio-coupe TwinTop. The car features a newly-developed, electro-hydraulic steel roof which allows generous luggage ...
Audi unleashes iron fist in velvet glove.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Denis Droppa Audi was a latecomer to the exclu- sive 300kW-plus club and for a long time had no answer to the blitzkrieg of Mercedes-Benz AMG and BMW M5/M6 models. But last year Ingolstadt came good with its rampant 309kW RS4 sedan, and Audi is now really ...
Mama mia - it's a new Maserati.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Motoring Staff These are the first pictures of Maserati's new GranTurismo, styled by Pininfarina, which will make its worldwide debut at the Geneva show. With its stunning looks and 4.2-litre firepower, the new two-door coupe is sure to get chequebooks ...
Subaru's new terrain tamer.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mike Winfield Tribeca is a fashionable suburb in Manhattan, New York. It's inhabitants are trendy, stylish, well heeled and usually well connected. Actor Robert de Niro lives in Tribeca and John F Kennedy Jr also lived in the area before he tragically flew his light ...
R1 guided missile goes ballistic.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Denis Droppa This was an arse-clenching moment if ever there was one. Coming out of the tight Wesbank left-hander at Kyalami I gassed the power too soon and the bike went sideways as the rear tyre lit up. This is it, old bean, you're about to experience your ...
Catch the Killarney action at the bus stop.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Dave Abrahams This Saturday sees the first Regional meeting of 2007 at Killarney - a Killarney that will be different in several ways to what competitors and spectators alike have become used to over the years. There has been concern over the last few years ...
Remember to first check for a pulse.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... I often talk about pulsed and electronic fuel injection systems and a reader called to ask me for a brief outline of how they differ. Pulsed systems are known as electronic fuel injection (EFI) while continuous injection systems (CIS) are often called mechanical or ...
The US' Indy Series lures Stephen Simpson.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Motoring Staff Stephen Simpson, a former driver for South Africa's A1 Grand Prix team, has turned his attention to Indy racing in the US. The 23-year old has been signed by Kenn Hardley Racing to compete in the 2007 Indy Pro Series. Simpson ...
Germany wins as SA falters again.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Vincent Gilbey Germany convincingly won the A1 Grand Prix in Durban on Sunday with 19-year-old Nico Hulkenberg displaying the class of a champion by outrunning the 23 other teams in both the 15 lap sprint and 50 lap feature races, while South Africa's Adrian Zaugg set ...
Gentlemen, start your engines.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lee McGeorge Here we go again! Saturday's Killarney meeting is the first round of the 2007 Western Cape championship season. Competitors will all start with a clean slate and have everything to play for. Enthusiasts on the other hand, can look forward to ...
Stock-car star sadly passes away.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lee McGeorge Former Cape stock car icon Francois Holloway, died on Friday, February 23 after a short illness. He was 49 years old. Francois grew up in Worcester and in Bloemfontein, where he attended Grey College. The son of legendary former Air ...
Merc CL is big daddy of luxury coupes.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mike Winfield As I was cruising down Franschoek's crowded main street during the press launch of the new Mercedes-Benz CL coupe earlier this week, a mischievous thought slipped into my head: Owning a Merc CL is God's way of telling you that you have too much money. ...
Honda's new planet-friendly hues.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: AP In a break with Formula One tradition, the Honda team will replace advertising and sponsor logos on its race cars with an image of the Earth. Honda announced the change on Monday as an effort to "raise awareness of environmental issues facing the planet." ...
Final Formula One team and driver lineups for 2007.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The following is a list of Formula One driver lineups for the season starting in Australia on March 18 after Toro Rosso filled the final vacancy by confirming American Scott Speed on Saturday. (Teams listed in 2006 championship order): RENAULT Giancarlo ...
Drivers driven to distraction.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peta Lee Good job I don't own a gun! I've just negotiated my way home through the hectic rush hour traffic. Apart from the usual simmering road rage, which most South African drivers experience on our highways and byways, there was the normal exasperation bubbling ...
Alesi spearheads new Far East series.(Motoring)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: AFP Former French Formula 1 driver Jean Alesi will race in a new stock-car formula in Asia and the Middle East that might rival Nascar. "Speedcar is a version of Nascar and I'll do my first trials on March 6 in Charlotte in the US," the 42-year-old told AFP. ...
Moratorium urged to ease skills shortage.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... were also skills shortages, they were leaving the continent anyway. The "debate" was whether taking them on would be better, as it meant that they would stay on the continent. Director of the Masakh' iSizwe centre, Sidney Luckett, agreed that a moratorium was the "first step" in ...
Culling needed to contol numbers.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... "a uniform framework for the management of elephants in South Africa". WWF said it acknowledged the difficulties facedc in managing the expanding elephant population, and that the government was facing "seriously difficult and soul-searching decisions". It applauded ...
Energy efficiency in the spotlight.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... cost and the overall payback time is about 10 months," Van Es said. Andrew Etziner of Eskom said the company had "widened the net" for energy-efficient projects and would also partially fund these. "No matter how small the ...
Manenberg boy, 4, critical after stray bullet hits him in his bed.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEEZ SALIE and WESLEY APRIL BARELY a month after a successful anti-crime campaign, Proudly Manenberg, a boy of four at play on his bed at home in the township has been critically wounded in the head by a gangster's stray bullet. He is the second victim in a ...
Moratorium urged to ease crisis.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... were also skills shortages, they were leaving the continent anyway. The "debate" was whether taking them on would be better, as it meant that they would stay on the continent. Director of the Masakh' iSizwe centre, Sidney Luckett, said he agreed with Fransman that a ...
Stars keeper gifts Santos a berth in the last 16.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FAROUK ABRAHAMS THE first thing Free State Stars need to do before their imminent return to the Castle Premiership is sign a competent goalkeeper. Last night at Athlone Stadium, Santos booked the remaining slot in the last 16 of the Absa Cup courtesy of a 1-0 ...
'more intensity' at training.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: PAUL NEWMAN DUBAI: Roger Federer was back doing what he does best on Monday, winning his first-round match here against Kristian Pless in the Dubai Open. For much of the last month he has been practising another of the arts he has mastered, that of putting his feet up. ...
spier to host macbeth mark ii.(Life)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FIONA CHISHOLM About the only thing anyone can predictably predict about director Brett Bailey's vision for macbEth is that it won't be predictable. A giveaway is the spelling of the opera (with a small "m" and a big "E") and the fact that he's flatly turned ...
Oil there is to know about home-grown olives.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The SA Olive Industry Association recently presented Gerrie Duvenhage with its first Achiever of the Year award, for his contribution to the industry. Duvenhage is olive product manager at Morgenster where he has worked for the past 12 years. He has also been on the SA Olive Association's ...
Tygerberg 'on track' after scare over dirty instruments.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY STAFF at Tygerberg Hospital are "making every effort possible" to ensure surgical instruments are sterile after reports surfaced that untrained staff were cleaning instruments "wherever they could" and some steam sterilisers (autoclaves) were not ...
New-look Obz theatre.(Life)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Let's Mix It, a two-hander talk show presented by the streetwise Hadji Fatima Abrahamse, Abduraghmaan Adams's creation from the play Angels Everywhere, and co-starring Gary Naidoo, can be seen at the newly transformed Obz Cafe Theatre until March 17. Tickets are R130 and include a ...
Last-minute Lotto check leaves woman a lot richer.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Staff Writer AN ELEVENTH-hour check on a Lotto ticket found behind a cupboard has made a Western Cape woman nearly R900 000 richer. The woman found the ticket just five days before it expired. "I normally check my tickets in batches, not after every ...
Deja vu.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... CONCERN is mounting around the world that the United States is planning to attack Iran to destroy its supposed nuclear-weapons production facilities. Vice-President Dick Cheney stated ominously this week that "all options are on the table" to stop Iran making an atomic bomb. ...
figures range from 35 to 100.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY VETS, the SPCA and a pet food manufacturer are at odds over how many dogs have died from eating coolant-laced food - the vets speculating that the figure could be in excess of 100, while the food company says no more than 35. Late last year pet ...
Fitness is but a breath away.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Learn how to live longer, younger, happier and fitter by breathing to oxygenate your body and brain. Transformational Breath facilitator Jooste Maijvis will give introductory talks today, tomorrow and on March 15, followed by private sessions and workshops. To book call Rose on 021 532 ...
Ammunition-carrying ship sunk by Sri Lankan navy.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Sri Lanka's navy sank a large ship yesterday it said was transporting artillery shells for Tamil Tiger rebels and that the blazing vessel and its crew sunk after a series of explosions. In his first live broadcast since falling ill in July, Cuban leader Fidel Castro called ...
Mozambique's malaria death toll up.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Mozambique registered a rise of 15% in the number of people who died of Malaria last year. Health ministry spokesman Martinhio Djedje said more than six million cases were reported at public health centres, an increase of 5.3% over the previous year. In all, 4 985 people had died of the ...
'waiting for mayor's signature'.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: BABALO NDENZE THE City of Cape Town's failure to release parcels of land was causing major construction delays in the N2 Gateway project, a senior housing official told the portfolio committee for housing yesterday. During an analysis of all pilot housing ...
SA scores high in global war against online drugs.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE internet has become an important player in the illegal drugs trade. The just-released 2006 report of the International Narcotics Control Board highlights the role of "cyberpharmacies" in illegally selling a wide range of psychotropic drugs. ...
Sony pulls Deep Purple album.(Life)
Mar 01, 2007 ... LONDON: Sony BMG has withdrawn a Deep Purple album after complaints from lead singer Ian Gillan that it had been released without his knowledge, a spokesman for the label said on Tuesday. ...
CITY could BE WORLD'S GATEWAY to region.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jan Glazewski This week sees the launch of the South African arm of International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/8 in Cape Town. IPY is being marked worldwide to focus attention on both the scientific and the social importance of the two polar regions of the world, the Arctic in ...
Poor countries can't afford not to invest in science and technology.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: David Dickson A recent meeting hosted by the World Bank in the US gathered over 300 government ministers, policy advisers, scientists and representatives of non-governmental organisations from developing countries. They were there to discuss how science, technology and ...
Name changes are part of the continuing struggle to close the chapter of colonisation.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Bennie Bunsee Name changes in South Africa must be seen in the historical context of colonial conquests. This is exhaustively described by Edward Said in his famous book, Orientalism, where he describes how a colonising and racist West distorted the great achievements of ...
Let's take up Mbeki's challenge and start a national dialogue on our identity.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... There's a moment when President Thabo Mbeki enters the House for the opening of Parliament, which either jars or has great resonance, depending on which side of the cultural divide you sit. It's the moment when the imbongi (praise-singer) rises and speaks. He speaks in praise ...
Abuse of power.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Probably because I was a wartime, ration book-raised, one-of-10 child, and learned at an early age to eke things out, I use electricity and water sparingly and did so long before it became fashionable or necessary. I moved into my much-maligned leafy suburb about 20 years ago ...
Swift action.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... I would like to thank and congratulate the Fish Hoek police for their fast action in finding and arresting the three men who murdered a domestic servant in Disa Way, Noordhoek on Thursday last week. Two of the men were picked up in Delft the next day and the ...
Shift the burden.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... There is a very simple way to value properties. Ask the owners to estimate the market value of their homes, and all the municipality has to do is reserve the right to buy the property at the owner's valuation. This will ensure that owners do not undervalue their properties. ...
President misquoted.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... There should be no difference between land occupation, oppression, genocide, assassination and wanton destruction by individuals, dictatorships, tyrants and democratic states. Sadly, in the real world there is. The difference is that those who subscribe to "Western" democracy, ...
The right noises.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... I would like to correct inaccurate information in the letter by Ian Zeeman of Bothasig (February 21). Zeeman indicates that "local government has published new regulations to combat 'noise' pollution" and then proceeds to criticise the strictness of the regulations. ...
Two decks plse.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Intro yadda yadda ...
Sudan's war crimes.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The unhappy people of Darfur made the first significant steps along the road to justice on Tuesday when the International Criminal Court in the Hague was asked to issue arrest warrants against two men for crimes against humanity in the war-torn province in the west of Sudan. ...
Circumcision decision.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Jonny and Alex Myers have written an insightful article on the potential dangers of using male circumcision as a preventive tool for HIV/Aids (February 27). On Saturday, the Lancet published the results of the awaited two circumcision trials conducted in Uganda and Kenya. The ...
Province should be striving for better health care for all.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Amazingly, a senior member of the Western Cape government "denies severe cuts planned at city hospitals" (February 26). Surely at a time when Finance Minister Trevor Manuel apparently does not know what to do with all his surplus money and when he has allocated much more to ...
Hunt on for kidnap 'mastermind'.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY WHILE two people accused of kidnapping Sisanda Ngcawuzele, the 20-year-old daughter of Gugulethu businessman Mzoli Ngcawuzele, remain behind bars, police are stepping up the search for suspected mastermind Mzwamadolo Tyuluba. Police spokesman ...
DA's open approach.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Patric Tariq Mellet (February 28) argues that Tony Leon should follow his (Leon's) own advice when it comes to the name-changing debate - well, this is precisely what Leon has done. By arguing in favour of an open and transparent approach to the name-changing issue, Leon has ...
High Court thwarts woman's bid to prosecute for murder of her father.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER A BELHAR woman has lost a Cape High Court battle against the Bellville district commissioner of the police to obtain documents to institute a private prosecution against two doctors and her eldest sister for the murder of her father in 2002. ...
Energy efficiency plan launched to reduce city's electricity consumption.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING WITH the risk of blackouts a reality for the next five years, Cape Town organisations joined forces yesterday to launch a major new energy efficiency plan which will cut electricity consumption, reduce carbon emissions and save money. Called ...
BA confirms mystery tyre was sold for scrap.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN THE mystery of how a British Airways (BA) tyre landed up on the rocks at Sandy Bay a month ago has been partially solved. After the Cape Times alerted BA in Cape Town to the tyre, the airline removed it and sent it to Johannesburg and then on ...
Monaghan and Dempsey to give romantic comedy a bash.(Life)
Mar 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES: Mission Impossible 3 co-star Michelle Monaghan has signed on to join Patrick Dempsey in the romantic comedy Made of Honor. Their respective characters, Claire and Tom, have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't ...
Your weekly dose may be more than you really want to know.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... MOST weeks my medical aid fund e-mails me what it calls "your weekly dose of healthy living". It is thanks to this information that I knew January was "Sun Safe Month", and that the last seven days of it were "World Leprosy Week". February was "Reproductive Health Month", and ...
Independent Electoral Commission facing major challenges.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Linda Daniels A LACK of infrastructure, high rates of illiteracy and intra- party tensions were some of the obstacles to overcome for future elections, according to the Independent Electoral Commission. IEC representatives appeared before parliament's ad hoc ...
Winnie says she'll back Nkosazana as next president.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said yesterday her support for Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the next president had nothing to do with the current succession battle in the ANC. The former ANC Women's League president reportedly stunned ...
notes not written on foils.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE policeman responsible for lifting fingerprints at the scene of the murder of Inge Lotz has admitted in court he failed to follow normal procedure in documenting what he found. Constable Elton John Swartz did not write descriptions of the ...
Government must 'fight crime better', says Mlambo-Ngcuka.(News)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Angela Quintal The government was committed to fighting crime, but just needed to do it better, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said yesterday. She was replying to questions in the National Assembly, including one from DA MP Manie van Dyk on whether ...
Desire for victory spurs Bregman on to solid start.(Sports)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Michael Vlismas PRETORIA: Stacy Bregman made another strong bid for a maiden professional victory by shooting a 2-under-par 70 to share the lead after the first round of the WPGA Masters at Waterkloof yesterday. She and Lena Tornevall of Sweden were a single ...