Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from April 2007:
Artscape administration internship ‘a huge success’.(Workplace)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Fifteen young people recently completed their training programme as part of the Artscape internship project, which was launched in June last year with the financial support of the Department of Social Development. The main aim of the project was to give young unemployed artists ...
Give Men on Side of Road working chance.(Workplace)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Men on the Side of the Road (MSR) is calling for big business in Cape Town and Johannesburg to take a strong stand for social responsibility and employ society’s underdogs. MSR founder Charles Maisel says that every day about 100 000 men, desperate for work, stand on the ...
Chinese rhetoric on the rule of law is far from reality.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Nicholas Bequelin The image on the computer screen is shocking: a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp. The man, now sitting next to me, explains with a bit of understatement: “Of course I ...
Turbulent landing in Salzburg.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Melvyn Minnaar While the Mother City is celebrating the visual arts in a big way right now, a group exhibition, which feature quite a few Capetonians, is drawing wide attention in the Austrian city of Salzburg and staking a claim for South African art in central Europe. ...
The principle of compassion is still central to the celebration of Passover.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Warren Goldstein Freedom must be celebrated. We cannot afford to take liberty for granted. These are the teachings of the Holy Days of Passover, celebrated by Jews around the world as the anniversary of the liberation of their ancestors from Egypt by G-d 3 319 years ago ....
Single gives Pink /album new life.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... NEW YORK: Pink’s previous album, Try This, was, by her standards, a flop in the US. But just as her follow-up, I’m Not Dead, seemed headed for the same fate, the slow-building single U + Ur Hand is breathing life into the album, almost a year after it was released. ...
our leaders will determine our destiny.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Fred Phaswana At the start of 2007, South Africa assumed for the first time a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, pledging to “do everything necessary further to contribute to international peace and security”. For many this was a belated ...
elegant, thrilling joyride.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BEHIND THE MASK. Directed by Michelle Simpson, with Rory Rootenberg, Lana English, Jeremy Quickfall and Sarah-Jane Frith. At the Baxter Sanlam Studio until April 7. PETER TROMP reviews. The Beatles, once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away called the 60s, said that “all ...
‘Liberation movements defeated by capitalism’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING NATIONALIST movements central to the liberation struggle in southern Africa, such as the ANC, have been defeated by capitalism and are “exhausted of both purpose and promise”, says Canadian political scientist John Saul. Saul, who ...
Last week for ‘Bollocks’.(Life)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Dog’s Bollocks, actor Gaetan Schmid’s latest production, can be seen at the Kalk Bay Theatre this week until Saturday. Schmid takes on the guise of a quirky professor who focuses on the history of the English language. Book on 073 220 5430. The art exhibition Sin ...
Closing skills and equity gap.(Workplace)
Apr 02, 2007 ... What does your job entail? I assist companies to implement skills development and employment equity (EE) strategies, to ensure that they comply with the law and that employees can access qualifications and effective training. I also help the Sector Education and Training ...
Become an employment equity adviser.(Workplace)
Apr 02, 2007 ... You must be committed to advancing people. You must have good facilitation skills because you will often be called upon to facilitate employment equity (EE) or training committees, which larger companies are required to have by law. The role of a skills development and EE ...
Preservation order granted against alleged gangster, cousin.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THE Cape High Court has granted the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) a preservation order against an alleged gangster, Johnathan Ede, and his cousin, Richard Van Wyk, after police seized R94 240 in cash as well as various drugs from a ...
Surgeon battles UCT over course acceptance.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER A SURGEON who moved to South Africa from Bolivia is embroiled in a court battle with the University of Cape Town after it refused to accept him into the master’s degree programme in Family Medicine and Primary Health Care. Diego-Enrique ...
Rare plant fair.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Autumn Rare Plant Fair is at Rustenberg Wine Estate on Saturday, April 14 from 10am to 4pm and Sunday, April 15 from 10am to 3pm. Call Barbara on 021 844 0154 Join U3A Tygerberg for a presentation by David Davidson of Kirstenbosch on ...
Phillips’s death an ‘immense loss to humanity’, says Radebe.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN FORMER MP, historian and security and defence expert Ian Phillips was remembered yesterday for everything from his three-course garlic-themed dinners that “kept people out of the house for days” to intense philosophical debates. ...
‘society becoming tolerant of abusers’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL THE rape of children has reached crisis proportions, researchers say. Almost half of the 50 000 rapes reported each year are of children younger than 18 years. In nearly four in five cases, the child knows the rapist and in three out ...
I’ll fix my leaking roof after taking a hike before winter sets in.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... “SO WHAT to summer?” I asked myself as I lay in bed before dawn one morning last week, well snuggled under the covers, groaning at the thought of getting up in the dark to go to work. It’s not supposed to get cooler until after Easter. At least that’s ...
Police action praised.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... We trust our police. This is instilled in us from childhood. Any villain who abuses that trust by impersonating a police officer, must be brought to book. Public confidence and trust in our police service cannot be eroded by a few opportunistic criminals who, under the guise of ...
Over 30 000 descend on Oudtshoorn for start of Little Karoo arts festival.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY ORGANISERS say “great weather and lots of excitement” made for an excellent start to the 13th Little Karoo National Arts Festival at the weekend, attracting more than 30 000 people to Oudtshoorn. The festival started on Saturday and ...
‘poverty is no explanation’.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Staff Writer Crime is increasingly showing signs of “criminal terrorism”, says Michael Hough, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Pretoria. In a report published by the institute, Hough says the extreme violence that accompanies ...
Crossing floor will be a political death warrant for ID members, De Lille warns.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: VUSUMUZI KA NZAPHEZA INDEPENDENT Democrats who cross the floor will be committing political suicide, leader Patricia de Lille has warned at the party’s provincial conference in Salt River. ”One of the key tests of our loyalty will be in September ...
Schools sign agreements with the education authorities on beefing up matric results.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: EDUCATiON WRITER SCHOOLS have signed target agreements with the Western Cape Education Department, committing themselves to improved matric results this year. Education MEC Cameron Dugmore said this was the first time schools were expected to set targets and ...
Little moral authority.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... It is now more than a week since Iran captured 15 British service personnel in the Persian Gulf. All the claims and counter-claims from British and Iranian military spokesmen over whether this incident took place in Iraqi or Iranian territorial waters are something of an irrelevance. There ...
Get noisy.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... IN THE old days, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher used the term “constructive engagement” to evade taking the moral responsibility of confronting the evils of apartheid. Today, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) of 14 nations hides behind the ...
God’s beyond science.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Nithaya Chetty (“The search for truth doesn’t need God”, March 30) stated: “The concept of a God is not relevant in science … Ethical principles are often an afterthought in science. Without a conscience, science has the potential to be enormously ...
Overpopulation, not capitalism, prime suspect for planet’s ills.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Shawn Hattingh (“Capitalism is not sustainable”, March 28) lays the blame for global warming and an assortment of other sins at the door of capitalism and its large corporations. He says they cause ecological destruction; they infinitely expand markets, consumption ...
Objections off mark.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The ANC’s attack on the City of Cape Town’s draft budget is hypocritical (March 29). The city is proposing that electricity charges be increased by an average of 5.6%, that refuse removal charges be increased by 11%, that water and sanitation increase by 19%, and ...
Academic controversy.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... I’m surprised Wilmot James (“Eugene Marais – polymath ahead of his time”, March 23) made no reference to a controversy that erupted in 1975. Sir Solly Zuckerman referred to Marais as a “popular Afrikaans writer, but a scientific impostor whose ...
Up to four years to fix fire service, says new chief.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY IT WILL take three to four years to sort out the manpower and equipment problems that have plagued Cape Town’s fire services for years, says new fire chief Ian Schnetler. The 45-year-old veteran, with 27 years’ experience in the ...
Province’s wine growers say ‘cheers’ to green initiative.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE Biodiversity and Wine Initiative, designed to stop the loss of threatened lowland fynbos, now has almost 46 000 hectares of the Western Cape’s vineyards under conservation – about 46% of the total vineyards in the province. The ...
Benin holds breath on election results.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Benin yesterday awaited the first official results from Saturday’s legislative elections, seen as a political yardstick for President Boni Yayi a year after he took office pledging to fight corruption. Electoral commission sources said final results were not expected for several more ...
Afghan suicide bomber kills five.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... A car bomber blew himself up near an Afghan army convoy in eastern Afghanistan, killing five civilians, three of them children, and wounding six people, including five soldiers. Iran ignored growing international pressure to release 15 British seamen, saying London should change ...
Car problems.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... J Artlett (March 30) writes about his/her battle getting money out of someone who crashed into his/her car. I have the same story. A tour guide smashed into my car. His fault. Went to the police. Nothing happened. My insurance sent him two letters. Nothing. ...
New economic order.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Shawn Hattingh (“Capitalism is not sustainable”, March 28) is right on the money (pun intended) in his diagnosis of the environmental and energy crises that we face, and he correctly advocates a radically different global system which, however, he did not articulate. ...
Retreat man drowns near Kommetjie, boat aground.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A RETREAT resident drowned near Kommetjie at the weekend while, in a separate incident, rescue officials remained on standby to refloat a fishing trawler which had run aground at Stilbaai. In the first incident, Godfrey Swartz, 32, drowned after ...
Cape Epic mountain bike race ends with human spirit the winner.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race told of camaraderie and the triumph of the human spirit like few other mountain bike races before it. Karl Platt of Team Bulls said it was the hardest stage race of his life and winning the men’s ...
Consultants working on EIA for pebble bed reactor resign from project, causing more delays.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE consultants who have been running the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the controversial Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) have resigned from the project. This will mean another delay in the EIA process, which has been lengthy and ...
Bridge squatters hit by fire to meet officials on crisis today.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: WESLEY APRIL DISGRUNTLED squatters living at the foot of the N7 Vanguard bridge, which was damaged in a fire last year, are to meet provincial housing officials today to thrash out solutions to their housing problem. Kensington community leader Phindile ...
advisor to dlamini-zuma.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL Former executive mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo has resigned from the City of Cape Town. The controversial ANC mayor, who was in office at the time when multimillion rand tender scandals emerged, including Big Bay and more recently Jewellery City, is ...
Man hands himself over after murder of gran, girls.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... JOHANNESBURG: A 31-year-old man is being questioned in connection with the murders of a 60-year-old woman and five girls. They were found dead in a house in Zwide, Port Elizabeth. Captain Ernest Sigobe said the man handed himself over to police on Friday night. He ...
Muir worried Sharks may run into ‘wounded animals’.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: ZAYN NABBI The Sharks will face a desperate Queensland Reds outfit this Saturday evening in Brisbane bent on ending their seven-game losing streak when the sides collide at Suncorp Stadium in a round 10 Super 14 encounter. The home team are in the throes of ...
Bok sevens again bomb out big time in Hong Kong.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY South Africa have an unfortunate tradition of saving their worst for the biggest Sevens event on the planet. In 15 bids for the Hong Kong title, they have made just one final – in 1997 when Andre Venter, Chester Williams, Joost van der Westhuizen and ...
Jantjes will be counter to Pretorius.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: GAVIN RICH Conrad Jantjes is set to return to the Stormers starting line-up in an effort to thwart his old teammate Andre Pretorius in the Super 14 clash with the Lions at Newlands on Saturday. The former Springbok fullback and wing was forced to return home ...
Anti-Eviction Campaign vows to reconnect water to poor.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: VUSUMUZI KA NZAPHEZA THE Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) says it will reconnect residents whose water supply was cut because they could not afford to pay for their municipal services. During a heated community meeting attended by about 250 elderly people in ...
Union to meet Nqakula on five killings.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: CHRISTELLE TERREBLANCHE FEARS that rivalry between unions may lie behind the murders of five Federation of Democratic Unions of SA (Fedusa) members in two months are to be brought to police attention at the highest level. Fedusa general secretary Dennis George ...
Loss of commandos blamed for sharp rise in stock theft.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Boyd Webb More than 13 000 cattle, 22 000 sheep and 8 000 goats were stolen across the country in the first three months of last year, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said. Responding to a written question from Democratic Alliance MP Manie van ...
ANC urged to give women half of top posts.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA The ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) has embarked on a major offensive to ensure that women occupy 50% of all leadership positions throughout the ANC. While it stopped short of calling for the next president to be a woman, it did insist ...
We threw four points away, says shattered Lions coach.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Jacques van der Westhuyzen So passionate and so determined is Eugene Eloff to keep on winning in this year’s Vodacom Super 14 tournament that even the narrowest of defeats to one of the slickest teams in the history of the competition feels like losing a World Cup ...
Aiding those in Zanu-PF who want Mugabe out may be Zimbabwe’s best hope.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Zimbabwe picture looks worse or at best confused, after a series of meetings over the past week that were supposed to be helpful – especially the extraordinary Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit on Thursday and Zanu-PF’s Central Committee meeting on ...
12 killed in taxi with corpse in trailer as spate of accidents mars weekend.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A spate of fatal accidents, including one in which 12 members of a family died, hit the Western Cape at the weekend – days after the Department of Community Safety launched its road safety plan for the Easter holidays. Department spokesman ...
Murdered MK four are finally laid to rest.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Barry Bateman PRETORIA: The families of four uMkonto weSizwe (MK) operatives who went missing in the apartheid era 20 years ago, have laid them to rest here. The families were joined by numerous local ANC heavyweights, representatives from the Tshwane Metro ...
Jazz festival was ‘best one yet’ despite police call-out.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: BABALO NDENZE DESPITE having had to call the police to control rowdy music fans, Cape Town International Jazz Festival organisers say this year’s event was the best festival so far and was sold out on both nights. The police were called to the festival ...
Peterson calls for spin rethink.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Stuart Hess Getting in some practice time here is proving to be nearly as challenging for the South African team as keeping out a Lasith Malinga yorker. A damp pitch and outfield at the Bourda Oval caused by continuous showers meant South Africa had to ...
Woolmer ‘poisoned’ by witches’ drug – reports.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... LAHORE: The Pakistan cricket team held a memorial service for Bob Woolmer yesterday as a British newspaper, the Sunday Mirror, reported that police had received an anonymous tip-off that the coach had died as a result of being poisoned by aconite. Police had earlier reported ...
Chiefs draw a boost for Ajax’s African hopes.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: FAROUK ABRAHAMS Ajax Cape Town went a step closer to playing in next season’s African Champions League with a comprehensive 3-0 drubbing of relegation-haunted Maritzburg United on Saturday. Their hopes of qualifying were boosted by yesterday’s 1-1 draw ...
R27bn budget surplus not for bureaucracy.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Government departments will not be asked to bid for a share of the enlarged R27 billion budget surplus announced by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. In an interview, Manuel said the surplus would be used to pay off debt and not for government programmes. If government ...
Woolmer has left ‘a void’ in the Pakistan team, says Inzamam.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... unable to move. The drug causes a loss of power in the limbs ... It is the perfect drug to make a murder appear to be a suicide because it leaves no mark on the body. It is difficult to detect in a post- mortem.” The Pakistan Cricket Board has asked the assistant manager ...
Two foreigners held at Waterfront suspected of planning a crime, say police.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... TWO men, said by police to be from Russia and Bulgaria and arrested at the V&A Waterfront on Friday on suspicion of conspiring to commit a crime, are to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today. Police said the ...
Authorities to act after director found ‘moonlighting’ with emergency car.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... JOHANNESBURG: Gauteng’s acting provincial director of emergency services, Joe Herimbi, is to be disciplined after he was found to have been using an emergency vehicle to “moonlight” at a private hospital, health department spokesman Vusi Sibiya said. Sibiya ...
Williams wills herself to stunning victory.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Sapa-AFP Miami Serena Williams stormed back from a set down to triumph 0-6, 7-5, 6-3 over world No1 Justine Henin on Saturday to claim her fourth career title in the $6.9 million (R50.4 million) Sony Ericsson Open. “It’s just not in me to give ...
Phelps simply sensational.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Reuters Melbourne A week of jaw-dropping performances from Michael Phelps at the world championships has emphatically confirmed him as owner of the moniker “world’s best swimmer”. The gangling American surpassed the great Ian Thorpe’s ...
Cricket.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Apr 02, 2007 ... ICC WORLD CUP SUPER EIGHTS Sri Lanka v West Indies Guyana SRI LANKA U Tharanga b Powell 8 S Jayasuriya b Powell 115 K Sangakkara c Ramdin b Bradshaw 7 M Jayawardene b Bravo ...
Benin holds breath on election results.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Benin yesterday awaited the first official results from Saturday’s legislative elections, seen as a political yardstick for President Boni Yayi a year after he took office pledging to fight corruption. Electoral commission sources said final results were not expected for several ...
adviser to dlamini-zuma.(News)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL Former executive mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo has resigned from the City of Cape Town. The controversial ANC mayor, who was in office at the time when multimillion rand tender scandals emerged, including Big Bay and more recently Jewellery City, is ...