Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from May 2007:
government lacks a vision for arts and culture.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mike van Graan Michael Arendse's articles on the transformation of the performing arts in Cape Town (Cape Times, April 10) were an important intervention, even if only to provoke further debate about transformation and its challenges in our province some 13 years after ...
Stop talk and deliver.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... South Africa seems to be entering a very dangerous and recognisable pattern which is prevalent among our African neighbours. While public officials and the government "talk up" the attributes of facilities and infrastructure, the reality on the ground is exactly the opposite. ...
Opportunity for all.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Affirmative action is nothing more than the attempt to lift up those who are disadvantaged, denied equal opportunities, and are victims of social injustice and abused in all kinds of ways by an unjust society where greed, egoism and selfishness prevail, as marks all societies in all ...
Juxtaposing pictures to build stories.(Life)
May 01, 2007 ... Exhibition: Christopher Webster at the AVA gallery until May 4. Melvyn Minnaar reviews. Photography has an undeserved reputation, stretching over many generations of history, of documenting reality, recording truth, showing things as they are. Of course, it does play ...
Africa's potential can be unlocked by science, engineering and technology.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan Science, engineering and technology (SET) are essential for socioeconomic development. More specifically, science-based solutions are needed in Africa for poverty alleviation, disease eradication, agricultural productivity, employment, ...
Major flaw mars credibility.(Life)
May 01, 2007 ... DOUBT. Written by John Patrick Shanley, with Sandra Prinsloo, Jeremy Crutchley, Tinarie van Wyk Loots and Isle Oppelt. Directed by Janice Honeyman. At the Baxter Theatre. Performances start at 8pm. WILHELM SNYMAN reviews. SCEPTICISM-for-Beginners would be an apt summary for ...
Solo exhibition.(Life)
May 01, 2007 ... Library, a solo exhibition by artist Theo Kleynhans, is at the Rust en Vrede Gallery, 10 Wellington Road, Durbanville from Thursday until May 17. Kleynhans curated the visual arts section at the KKNK 2007. The exhibition will showcase the artist's fascination with stored knowledge. For ...
Labour under pressure.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... For governing parties, mid-term elections are notoriously challenging. But for Britain's Labour Party, the polls this Thursday are an even bleaker prospect than is usual at this stage in a parliament. The government is leaderless, with Tony Blair on his way out and Chancellor ...
Country can't afford 'two centres of power' in the ANC.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Celebrations of freedom have come and gone. These celebrations are and will always be an important part of our history, telling a sad story of our past and the quantum leap we have taken since those dark days. We remain a beacon of hope in a continent otherwise struggling to disentangle ...
'Bureaucrazy'.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Over three years ago the billing system for rates apparently overcharged and bamboozled me. I wrote to the council to try and rectify the matter. The reply was so obscure that neither my local councillor nor a customer relations consultant could explain it to me. I decided not ...
Enforce child safety.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... I refer to the leader article "Belt up" (April 30), regarding the safety of children travelling in vehicles and the appalling number of these children who are being injured each week. What is of particular concern is the number of bakkies transporting children to schools from ...
Stop bus lawlessness.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... I agree wholeheartedly with Johan Branehoeg (April 26). I recently saw a Golden Arrow bus travelling down Durban Road from Tygervalley toward Bellville at speeds far in excess of the limit, dangerously passing other vehicles, swerving all over the road, passing through a red ...
School bus driver in court on indecent assault charge.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: EDUCATION WRITER A SCHOOL bus driver who was arrested for allegedly molesting a pupil appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate's court yesterday on a charge of indecent assault and possession of drugs. Godfrey Booysen, 40, from Mitchells Plain, had his ...
Moonlit meander.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Join the Meridian Hiking Club tomorrow for a full-moon hike on Lion's Head. Take eats, sundowners and torch. If it rains, consider the hike cancelled. Book on the day. Call Sam at 082 498 0361. Non-members pay R10. Speaker and writer Desmond Colborne speaks at the Club ...
Insecurity estate is our refuge after fleeing the malevolent maelstrom of life.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... I have always sworn that I would never live in a security estate. They are loathsome places built on foundations of fear and inhabited by either victims of crime or people who expect to become victims of crime. They rarely make good neighbours. Those who don't carry unwieldy bags leaking ...
Workers'Day.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... TODAY's Workers' Day holiday honours those who have fallen in the fight for workers' rights. In Chicago in May 1886, police brutally repressed a strike and protest centred on demands for an eight-hour day. Six workers were shot dead, and four union organisers hanged. ...
city 'ahead of schedule', cepa 'steaming ahead'.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL ONE is building a R2.85 billion stadium, the other is fighting to stop its construction, but both the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Environmental Protection Association (Cepa) say they are "on track'' with their respective activities. Pieter ...
Keep Christian days.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... It is with great distress that I have read reports of a plan to scrap Christian public holidays. One of the reasons given is that there are too many of them, and this discriminates against other religious groups. We only have two Christian holidays out of a total of 12 public ...
lack of foresight and developmenT.(Sports)
May 01, 2007 ... THE Proteas have to learn the lessons of the World Cup very quickly if they are to make a meaningful challenge for the 2011 edition on the Asian sub-continent in four very short years' time. The first of these is that the selectors, rather than the players, captain or team ...
Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to join forces.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have vowed to work together to fight terrorism and drug smuggling, and improve bilateral relations strained over the Taliban insurgency, in the Ankara Declaration. Five United States troops in Iraq were ...
Would-be suicide bombers arrested in Algiers.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... Five would-be suicide bombers linked to a group which carried out car-bomb attacks in Algiers last month have been arrested. The Sudanese army was yesterday looking for a helicopter with two officers on board that disappeared in North Darfur. Rebels claim to have shot it down ...
Desai in bid to get documents detailing Hlophe's relationship with Oasis group.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER CAPE Judge Siraj Desai wants to subpoena Cape Judge President John Hlophe to produce a list of detailed documents he hopes will get to the bottom of Judge Hlophe's relationship with Oasis Group Holdings when he gave it consent to sue him for defamation. ...
At least we are world champions at losing in the semi-finals.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... DESPERATE not to accuse people in the heat of my disappointment at the South African team's semi-final performance in the World Cup, I turned to my old friend Rodney, who's a top cricket administrator and knows all the answers. "Why, why, why?" I groaned, pulling chunks out of ...
More exchange partners for UCT business school.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN THE UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has added the Stern School of Business at New York University and Melbourne Business School to its list of exchange partners, raising the number of international tertiary in-stitutions with which it is linked to ...
SACP and Cosatu to slam government labour policies.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: JORDAN WEISSMANN Cosatu and the SA Communist Party (SACP) will mark today's Workers' Day holiday with speeches criticising the government's labour policy. Speakers from the federation and party will be joined in the Company's Garden by Pallo Jordan, Minister ...
Province's courts meet security deadline.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER THE Western Cape installed metal detectors and x-ray machines at the entrances to all but 1% of its courts long before yesterday's national deadline for the implementation of such security measures, the regional head of justice, Hishaam Mohamed, has said. ...
SA body to target coastal pollution.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER ABOUT 80% of marine pollution in South Africa comes from the land, particularly from the discharge of untreated sewage into sensitive estuaries and the sea, from coastal mining, bad farming and contaminated storm water. The Department of ...
Igesund out to change Sundowns'woeful record in knockout football.(Sports)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Nkareng Matshe JOHANNESBURG: Owen da Gama's Silver Stars ended Mamelodi Sundowns' domestic winning streak last week, but, ahead of their Absa Cup semi-final tomorrow, he still sees his team as no match for them. "They are ahead of us, favourites," the ...
Official and boyfriend face R800 000 fraud trial.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY A Department of Community Safety official and her boyfriend have been released on R10 000 bail each and their fraud case postponed to July 27 for further investigation. Prosecutor Juanita Swart told the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday that ...
Alleged murderers of policeman may face more charges.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... MORE charges may be brought against two men accused of killing a Woodstock detective last month and they will appear in an identity parade. The duo, both aged 25, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday. "The state is investigating other possible ...
'HRC gunman' won't have to pay bail.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY A POLITE and well-spoken Francis Blackmore, accused of holding the provincial head of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) hostage at gunpoint last month, was released on a warning from the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday after the magistrate heard he ...
Adventurous baboon keeps SPCA inspectors on the hop.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER A BABOON in the southern suburbs kept the SPCA on the run yesterday. Inspectors followed him across Meadowridge and Bergvliet as the young baboon bounded from roof to roof in an apparent bid to find a new troop and a new mate. By late ...
'Ougat' blamed for gang violence at Pollsmoor.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY THE alleged Kensington druglord arrested on charges of dealing in tik last month is causing an upsurge in gang violence in Pollsmoor Prison and Correctional Services wants him moved, an advocate said in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday. ...
Pretoria man's jail hell in Chad over 'unpaid' R1m.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Graeme Hosken PRETORIA: After three days of hell in a prison cell in Chad, a South African construction worker just wants to return home. Rudi Lauterbach, 49, of Pretoria, was jailed because the firm he works for has apparently not paid an estimated R1 million ...
chemical linked to pet deaths.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DAVID SPETT MELAMINE, the chemical said to be linked to the deaths of at least 25 dogs in South Africa, may have been used in pet food for years, says a professor emeritus of the University of Pretoria. Worse, human food may also be contaminated by the ...
Nqakula to extend crime roadshow to woo foreigners.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Fabricius THE government is to extend its international roadshow to address crime issues in the country to Italy, Austria and possibly China, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula's special adviser, Les Xinwa, said yesterday. In Britain, Nqakula ...
SPCA prepares to capture renegade baboon.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... won't release him back to Tokai as (he is) trying to find a new troop or new mate." Male baboons, when they reach sexual maturity, leave the troop they were born into in search of females from other troops. Meadowridge resident Joan Lipp said earlier yesterday that ...
Fuel price increase of34c kicks in at midnight.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... TODAY is the last day to fill up your tank before the petrol price increases by 34c per litre at midnight. The hike is the third consecutive increase and follows a 69c increase at the beginning of April. As a result, a litre of ...
Three arrested, appear in court over robbery at Agliotti home.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Alex Eliseev JOHANNESBURG: Three suspects appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court here yesterday in connection with the armed robbery at the Sandton mansion of alleged criminal mastermind Glenn Agliotti. Suspects Vincent Ditlhase, 30, Mncedisi Makamo, 25, ...
Taxi leaders to meet on violence.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... THE province's taxi leadership meets on Thursday on how to curb a recent spate of violence. Two people have been killed and several passengersinjured in shootings in Bellville, Kraaifontein and Delft in a fortnight. The Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata) has ...
Fourie may be fit for Reds clash.(Sports)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lester Mills PRETORIA: For the Bulls, today's Workers Day public holiday will be punctuated by work and not rest as they prepare for what will be their deciding final Super 14 league game of the season against the Reds. Yesterday, coach Heyneke Meyer had ...
Accused barred from HRC.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... required to report to the Woodstock Police Station every Monday and Wednesday. As he nodded his head, Esau said Blackmore was not to go near the HRC offices in the Absa building in Adderley Street and was not allowed to communicate with HRC employees and employers. ...
Biker clocks243km/h inKZN, spendsweekend in jail.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: XOLISWA ZULU DURBAN: KwaZulu-Natal motorists are not known for their sensible driving, but those from outside the province seem to take the prize for travelling at the speed of light on the province's roads. Drivers from Midrand and Meyerton spent the long ...
jean out.(Sports)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: GAVIN RICH JEAN DE VILLIERS is definitely out of Saturday's clash with the Sharks at Newlands, but the Stormers are still negotiating with Springbok coach Jake White in the hope that Schalk Burger can be available for the final Super 14 match of the season. ...
Desai says judge president was not in a position to allow Oasis to sue him.(News)
May 01, 2007 ... requested that information be supplied by April 10. But Judge Hlophe's attorneys responded that they were not aware of the existence of the Ting Trust. They asked Judge Desai to supply further information and asked that he explain the connection between his defence to Oasis' ...
Muir says Sharks will be watching Grant 'very closely'.(Sports)
May 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY DURBAN: The sharp focus in the Sharks camp on their match against the Stormers this week is emphasised by coach Dick Muir's assertion that the game amounts to a "Super 14 quarter-final" for the Sharks. The fired-up Sharks have the juicy ...
Flickers of hope/signal a political/future for NCOP.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mandisi Tyumre In commemorating its 10th anniversary, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has the first significant opportunity to challenge some of the negative perceptions about its role and status in South Africa's body politic. However, it will take ...
hip, funny, clever international artists.(Life)
May 02, 2007 ... GIMBERG/NERF/SACKS/ YOUNG. Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery (SMAC), De Wet Centre, Church Street, Stellenbosch. Exhibition until May 6. SUZY BELL reviews. They're as bold as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, actually bolder, they're as hip as Robert Sloon's salacious ...
Temperature fluctuations and oxygen exposure can ruin wineDominique Herman.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Feature Writer IT is not only exposure to oxygen that causes wine to degrade. Temperature fluctuation "affects wine hugely", according to Jonathan Steyn, one of the owners of V&A Waterfront restaurant Belthazar, an eatery with 600 wines on its wine list - 196 of them ...
Trust to support community-based organisations.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... AT this year's Women's Hope Education and Training Trust (Wheat) fundraising luncheon, at which Maria Ramos will be the guest speaker, each table will be linked to a Wheat Trust community-based organisation (CBO) in the Western Cape and invited to "adopt" that CBO for a year. ...
AA benefits capitalism.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... A paradox lies deeply embedded in affirmative action (AA): the neglect of the many is the price paid for the affirmation of the few. None of the many contributors to the AA debate seem ready to confront the fact that AA cannot meet its own proclaimed objectives. AA is ...
Tolerant generation.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... FOR California's teenagers and young adults, the answer to Rodney King's question is a definite yes: we can all get along. Race and ethnicity, according to a new survey of Californians aged 16 to 22, are far less significant to this generation than to any in the past. ...
BOXING'S CHANCE TO COUNTER-PUNCH.(Sports)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Alan HubbardLONDON: As super-fights go, they do not come any bigger than Saturday night's mega-bucks showdown in Las Vegas between the world's two outstanding pound-for-pound talents, Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather. Golden Boy versus Pretty Boy, who between ...
Rooney: The one thing I've learned is that this team never lies down ...(Sports)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Steve Tongue LONDON: After a vintage European contest between Manchester United and Milan last week was followed by what will be perceived as a more typically British one at Stamford Bridge the next night - shades of the Lord Mayor's Show and what comes after it - there ...
It might beg questions, but research has finally shown why politicians go ape.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: Steve Connor LONDON: The hand gesturing of politicians can be traced back to the manual signals first used by our ape-like ancestors, according to a study into how chimpanzees communicate with one another. Apes and humans both share the ability to communicate ...
Oasis in bid to draw minister into its battle with judge.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER OASIS Group Holdings wants to amend its papers to include the minister of justice as a defendant in its court action against Justice Siraj Desai so it may challenge the constitutionality of the law that deals with the need to secure consent to sue a ...
Beautifully staged 1960s Stoppard play.(Life)
May 02, 2007 ... ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Directed by Christopher Weare, with Rob van Vuuren, Alan Committie and Neville Thomas. At UCT's Little Theatre. PETER TROMP reviews. It stands to reason that different people want different things from their art. Rosencrantz & Guildernstern ...
Zille should fulfil commitments and face up to responsibilities.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... Mayor Helen Zille's polemics on her administration's delivery (April 30) skirt the real issue - what has the City of Cape Town done for its citizens since her appointment to the position? Over the year, Zille's administration has evaded answering this important question and ...
Nothing good about GM.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... Hans Lombard continues to misinform a confused public ("GM seed can be saved", April 26) about the reality behind genetically modified (GM) crops, on behalf of his paymasters. To claim, for instance, that Monsanto, the world's biggest seed company, does not object to farmers ...
Project won't go away.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... The report on the meeting with Helen Zille and several DA councillors at Lavender Hill ("Providing basic services will take time, warns Zille", April 30) needs some amplification. The impression given is that the audience members were not willing to discuss their problems in a ...
Heroin, 'moonrock' found.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THE National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) has been granted a preservation order against two Brooklyn men believed to be dealing in heroine and "moonrock" - a combination of heroin and cocaine. A curator was also appointed by the ...
Slim pickings for Cape's curio traders as cold weather sets in.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... BYLINE: JORDAN WEISSMANN AS CAPE TOWN prepares for winter the city's street merchants are bracing themselves for the beginning of their lean season when the chilly weather and rain chase away the tourists and their already slim profits drop even further. Each ...
Back to/basics.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... Residents of informal settlements from "The Heights" near Muizenberg complained to Mayor Helen Zille this week that they |needed basic services such as water, electricity and sanitation. This is a recurring refrain heard throughout the city, which is why the city ...
Charcoal drawings.(Life)
May 02, 2007 ... An exhibition of charcoal drawings by Elizabeth Gunter, titled SIN/sin, can be seen at the Erdmann Contemporary & Photographic Gallery at 63 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town, until Saturday. Three photographic portfolios by Pieter Badenhorst, Dale Yudelman and Pierre Crocquet, titled Love ...
Container cargo may leave some content, but can place many others at risk.(News)
May 02, 2007 ... Inward from the British port of Portland via the Atlantic islands, the Royal Mail Ship St Helena berthed in Cape Town on Sunday and sails this morning for the islands via Walvis Bay. It was house-full from E Berth to G Berth when she arrived. The small Antiguan-flagged freighter ...