Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from September 2007:
A sporting look at doing better business.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Raise Your Game is a self-development book aimed at those wanting to enhance their performance in business. Based on the synergy between business and sport, it gives practical advice and "to-do" exercises with interesting sporting |anecdotes. Written by Jenny Handley, owner of a ...
Old Mutual skills drive 'what SA needs'.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Old Mutual's learnership programme addresses one of the key challenges facing South Africa, which is the creation of skilled people able to respond to the human resource demands of the country's thriving economy, says Minister of Education Naledi Pandor. Giving the keynote ...
Child's play for young at heart.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... What does your job entail? I recruit young women, from 18 to 26 years old, to work all over the US as baby-sitters for American host families. The institute currently services more than 4 000 families who want to employ a responsible, active person who relates well to their ...
How to become an au pair in the US.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... The job is enormous fun, but you have to be dedicated and responsible. After all, you are looking after someone else's children. The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) offers au pairs a one-year contract, with the option to extend it for another year. When ...
'Scale the mountains' call from Mandela.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Nelson Mandelahas made an impassioned appeal for black Britons to take a lead in countering inner-city violence and low achievemen , ...
Techniques that will help combat stress.(Workplace)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Tessa Silberbauer THE majority of effective stress-management techniques are characterised by two things: they need regular application and they cannot be done in the office. These techniques - diet, exercise, rest and relaxation - are effective ...
Top SA artist to exhibit in the city.(Life)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Melvyn Minnaar A major show of the work of Kuils River-born painter Marlene Dumas will be exhibited at the Iziko South Africa National Gallery in November. Dumas's The Teacher, sold for $ 3.34million at auction in 2005; the highest price paid for a work by a ...
Iraqis forced to pay a horrific human price for US unilateralism in the region.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Ebrahim Bham As the world is focusing on the number of soldiers killed and the financial resources attached to the occupation in Iraq, the humanitarian side of the war is forgotten. The mounting financial cost of the American war effort in Iraq is dwarfed by ...
sarkozy's senegal speech.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... This is an edited version of a speech by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the youth of Senegal in Dakar on July 26, which drew praise from President Thabo Mbeki, but mixed reviews otherwise. This evening I want to address myself to all the Africans who are so different from ...
Mbeki's letter of praise.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... This is the letter sent by President Thabo Mbeki to French President Sarkozy after his speech at the University of Dakar on July 26. Yesterday, striving constantly to overcome my primitive understanding of the French language and its poetry, I found time to read the powerful ...
Reclaim our mountain.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Much has been written recently about the spate of muggings on the mountains surrounding Cape Town and, in particular, Table Mountain. The authorities are either at a loss as to what they can do or cannot decide who is responsible for hikers' security. A certain amount ...
This remake works.(Life)
Sep 03, 2007 ... HHH Heyy Babyy. Directed by Sajid Khan, with Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani. At Nu Metro, Canal Walk. Mehboob Bawa reviews. Director Sajid Khan's first full-length feature is a romantic comedy which makes excellent use of its lead ...
Orchestral performance.(Life)
Sep 03, 2007 ... A gala performance by the Stellenbosch University Symphonic Wind Orchestra takes place on Saturday at 8pm in the Endler Hall, US Konservatorium. The ensemble celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. The Tygerberg City Choir, the Mighty Joy Singers from Mbekweni and young percussionist ...
'Bek Lash'beefs up comedy fest line-up.(Life)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: PETER TROMP AS it did with Queercom last year, the 11th Cape Town International Comedy Festival will again feature a new addition to its line-up. This year's addition is called Bek-Lash, a showcase for some of Afrikaans comedy's best known names, at Artscape ...
Learn about SA wines.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... The Cape Wine Academy will host a course, "Introduction to South Africa Wine", at Meerendal wine estate in Durbanville, from Wednesday, and at Manuka in Somerset West from next Monday. The course consists of three evening lectures, each one including theory and wine tasting. Call 021 889 ...
Najwa waits as judge weighs appeal against bail refusal.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THERE may be an innocent explanation for the cellphone calls between Najwa Petersen and the key state witness in her trial arising from the murder of her husband, music legend Taliep Petersen, her counsel has told the Cape High Court. The ...
Tribute to Roosevelt.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... The world's financial markets are as good at generating gossip as they are at creating - and occasionally destroying - wealth. All manner of rumours are circulating around boardrooms and bars about who will be next to reveal embarrassing losses, lay off staff and go cap in hand to their ...
Mountain crime is a violation of its victims on a soul level.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... There is an aspect, I believe, that some people may be missing about the muggings in Table Mountain National Park. Yes, there is far more crime in the suburbs, particularly Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Langa and on the Cape Flats, than there is in the park, and it is as unacceptable ...
Taxithuggery.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... THE University of Cape Town's popular Jammie Shuttle has become the latest target of taxi association blackmail. Last week, UCT vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele suspended the shuttle service along the Claremont Main Road route after a driver was threatened with a gun a day after ...
Meshoe owes apology.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... When examining floor-crossing, you have to take a holistic view of democracy, because external democracy is often a reflection of internal democracy within political parties. We must remember that the floor- crossing legislation was brought about by political parties which at ...
What they deserve.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... ONCE again we are facing the six-foot shuffle. Two feet in one party, two feet in the mouth and the other two dancing across the floor. Why would any party want to engage the services of politicians who keep dancing to someone else's tune? ...
Independent court?(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Floor-CROSSING is not disgusting because a few low-life, amoral thick-skinned parliamentarians take advantage of the situation presented to them, but because the highest court in the land, the Constitutional Court, found the legislation acceptable. The honourable judges, digging ...
Hypocritical ACDP.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Following an article in the Cape Times (August 31), I wish to inform readers that the ACDP is misleading you by saying they will not take politicians who cross the floor. When the issue was discussed in the ACDP political caucus, party leader Kenneth Meshoe said: "If a person's ...
Paarl brothers rearrested, more wine confiscated.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY TWO Paarl brothers have been rearrested while out on bail and more wine was confiscated from their farm two weeks after they were arrested on suspicion of selling bootleg wine in townships. On August 17, Simon Basson, 39, and his brother Stephanus ...
Abortion services vital.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... The article, "Our children are dying in droves - and this is why", by Louis Reynolds and David Sanders (August 22), illustrates important contextual challenges within the health system and the harsh realities that children, women and mothers experience in South Africa. It is ...
Mountains of rubbish taken from city's drains, pipes.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: ANEL POWELL MORE than 6 000km of stormwater pipes and drains are being cleared of debris and litter by the City of Cape Town to reduce the risk of flooding. In spite of an allocation of R76 million this year for the cleaning of the city's stormwater system, ...
'Self-serving propagandist' should respect academic research.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Not surprisingly, Cyril Hromnik missed the object of my article "How metals were worked long before the industrial revolution - discovering Africa's age-old iron smelting secrets" (July 6) in his letter "Cheap propaganda"(July 17). My piece discussed the extractive processes ...
Muizenbergsurfers rulethe wave.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY SEVENTY-ONE surfers at Muizenberg could well have cruised their way into the record books by riding a single wave at the same time, smashing last year's world record of 44 - a figure most of them helped thrash five times yesterday. More than 1 ...
accused of fraud.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH The Stellenbosch Municipality has asked Local Government and Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi to uphold its majority decision to have an ANC ward councillor expelled for allegedly committing fraud. "The MEC received a report from the Stellenbosch ...
Two die, passengers trapped as taxi overturns on N1 after tyre bursts.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER TWO people died and seven were seriously injured when a minibus taxi overturned after a tyre burst near Klapmuts. Paramedics said they had struggled to free some of the passengers trapped in the wreckage on the N1 yesterday. Two women, ...
First 64 homes-from-hostels handed over.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY KEYS have been handed over to the first 64 family homes to have been created from former men's hostels in a R208-million project that is to benefit hundreds of disadvantaged families. A number of families left homeless by a fire that ravaged the ...
Theewaters pips Royal Natal in 'toughest' Lipton Challenge.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: ALEX PETERSEN AN 18 to 20-knot northwesterly, a choppy sea and a fast-running swell provided a fitting finale to what sailors say has been the toughest Lipton Challenge regatta ever. The Royal Natal Yacht Club's determined bid for the 99-year-old trophy, with ...
Moravian Church president lived life in service of community.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: RYLAND FISHER MARTIN Jack Reginald Wessels, the first president of the united Moravian Church in SA, has died at the age of 79. His funeral service at Genadendal's historic Moravian mission church on Saturday was attended by over 1 000 people. ...
Table Mountain mugging suspect due in court.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY A suspected mugger is due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court today, while police say they are working "flat out" to make more arrests in connection with the recent escalation of crime on the Table Mountain chain. Makhaya Mani, ...
Mayor welcomes AmaHlubi ruler to celebrate freedom.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: BABALO NDENZE MAYOR Helen Zille yesterday welcomed a delegation of the AmaHlubi - which included the nation's current ruler, King Langalibalele II - as part of the 120th anniversary celebrations of the release of King Langalibalele I from house arrest in Cape Town. ...
Violence increases in Somali capital.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... An increasingly violent insurgency in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killed 200 civilians and wounded 400 last month, a local human rights group said. The death toll makes August the bloodiest month in Somalia since April. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon flies to Sudan today to ...
Two dozen Taliban fighters killed in attack on HQ.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Afghan and US-led coalition forces destroyed an insurgent headquarters near Kandahar, killing an estimated two dozen Taliban fighters, the US military said. Israeli aircraft struck in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, missing a car carrying Islamic Jihad militants. Three ...
Caledon women with 160 cats to be investigated by experts for 'hoarding syndrome'.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH TWO women found with 160 cats in their Caledon home will be visited by healthcare experts and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) this week and assessed for a condition called Diogenes Syndrome, or Senile Squalor Syndrome (SSS). ...
Green Cabs denies gun threat made UCT suspend shuttle.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER GREEN Cabs taxi association has denied UCT allegations that it was forced to suspend its Jammie Shuttle service after threats from a gun-toting taxi commuter. The taxi association, which operates between Cape Town and Wynberg, alleged that the ...
Officials set to report to MEC on reasons for surge in school violence.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH TOP officials in the Western Cape education department and the Safe Schools directorate are to report to Education MEC Cameron Dugmore today about the recent spike in violence at schools. Dugmore has instructed officials to gather as much ...
'matter resolved'.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chiara Carter and Christelle Terreblanche Axed deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge might not be disciplined by the ANC - despite President Thabo Mbeki having urged a hearing. This follows Madlala-Routledge meeting ANC secretary general Kgalema ...
I too could be a media darling if I were a populist - Manto.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Fiona Forde and Angela Quintal Health Minister Manto Tshablala-Msimang believes she too could be a media darling like her axed deputy if she were a "populist". It is a view shared by the ANC, which has been quick to defend her legacy and that of her ...
Dollie willplay forStormers,says Rassie.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED Boland Cavaliers flyhalf Isma-eel Dollie will be given a "fair chance" to play for the Stormers next season. He told the Cape Times yesterday that he had met Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus last week and that the meeting had been fruitful. ...
South Africa's softly-softly approach threatens tough joint action in Darfur.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... The South African government believes the Permanent Five members of the United Nations Security Council - the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and Russia - often wield their exceptional power on the council for no other reason than because they have it. A senior ...
Advertisingauthority saysKFC advertis misleading.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Lyse Comins DURBAN: The Advertising Standards Authority dismissed arguments pleading "creative licence" when it ordered KFC to immediately withdraw a misleading television advertisement for its variety bucket of spicy wings and "pops". A consumer, Glenn du ...
Eastern Cape ANC leadership denies ditching Zuma in favour of Ramaphosa.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chiara Carter CONFUSION reigned yesterday after reports that the Eastern Cape's influential OR Tambo region had opted to back businessman Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC succession race. This was reportedly to avoid a bruising leadership battle between President ...
Chief Justice's official residence costs R9.25m.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... JOHANNESBURG: Taxpayers have bought a R9.25 million house here for the Chief Justice and will soon will be forking out to buy another house for his deputy. Department of Justice spokesperson Zolile Nqayi confirmed weekend newspaper reports yesterday that R9.25m had been spent ...
Magnificent 71 surfers break world record in Muizenberg monster group ride.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... School in Ireland last year. "But it was broken again and again. The 320 surfers made six attempts and each time broke the record," Botha said. Fifty-one surfers initially managed to ride a wave, followed by 54, 58, 64, another 64 and finally 71. "This is great. At ...
Tree-planting drive for SA.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... PRETORIA: South Africa has embarked on a greening project which will see more than a million trees planted a year. The project, launched by President Thabo Mbeki in Ga-Rankuwa, is part of a United ...
Memorial held for 108 officers killed in line of duty in past year.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... PRETORIA: Hundreds of families and senior police and government officials gathered here at the weekend to pay their last respects to 108 police officers killed in the line of duty between January last year and March this year. Speaking at the memorial held at the Union ...
IRB tells press: boycott World Cup if you wish.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Peter Bills The International Rugby Board (IRB) has taken the extraordinary step of inviting the world press to boycott the Rugby World Cup, which opens in France on Friday. The row, which has been simmering between the IRB and leading media organisations, ...
Floor-crossing bonanza for ID as 11 join party.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Elizabeth Thompson, the sole UIF councillor in the city, has joined the DA. As the UIF was part of the DA-led multiparty coalition, Thompson's shift will have no impact on the city's balance of power. Thompson cited internal strife in the UIF as her reason for ...
Netshitenzhe 'not in the ANC race'.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... favoured as a successor. The possibility of a compromise candidate - the so-called third way - was discussed at a provincial executive committee meeting last weekend but reportedly did not receive much support. The ANC leadership battle is currently a three-way race between ...
Yego rules 800as Mulaudzifails to feature.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: AFP-REUTERS OSAKA, JAPAN Alfred Yego claimed Kenya's first 800m title at the IAAF world championships since 1993 when he stormed to the finish in 1min 47.09sec ahead of Gary Reed of Canada and Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy yesterday. The final stages of a slow ...
athletics.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Sep 03, 2007 ... WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Osaka, Japan MEN'S FINALS 4x400m Relay: 1 United States 2:55.56 (Merritt, Taylor, Williamson, Wariner); 2 Bahamas 2:59.18 (Moncur, Mathieu, Williams, Brown); 3 Poland 3:00.05 (Plawgo, Dabrowski, Marciniszyn, Kozlowski) 800m: ...
Eastern Cape ANC leadership denies ditching Zuma in favour of Ramaphosa.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: Chiara Carter CONFUSION reigned yesterday after reports that the Eastern Cape's influential OR Tambo region had opted to back businessman Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC succession race. This was reportedly to avoid a bruising leadership battle between President ...
Two dozen Taliban fighters killed in attack on HQ.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Afghan and US-led coalition forces destroyed an insurgent headquarters near Kandahar, killing an estimated two dozen Taliban fighters, the US military said. British soldiers began withdrawing from their last base inside the southern Iraqi city of Basra to an air base on the ...
Two die as minibus taxioverturns nearKlapmuts.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER TWO people died and seven were seriously injured when a minibus taxi overturned after a tyre burst near Klapmuts. Paramedics said they had struggled to free some of the passengers trapped in the wreckage on the N1 yesterday. Two women, ...
Theewaters pips Royal Natal in 'toughest' Lipton Challenge.(News)
Sep 03, 2007 ... BYLINE: ALEX PETERSEN AN 18 to 20-knot northwesterly, a choppy sea and a fast-running swell provided a fitting finale to what sailors say has been the toughest Lipton Challenge regatta ever. The Royal Natal Yacht Club's determined bid for the 99-year-old trophy, with ...
Zapiro scoopsVodacom award.(News)
Sep 05, 2007 ... BYLINE: Staff Writer TOP cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) was among the regional winners of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards announced in Cape Town last night. Each received R5 000 and go through to the national finals in Johannesburg on November 4. ...
'Silly' to say we can beat the Boks, declares Samoa's piano shifter.(Sports)
Sep 05, 2007 ... BYLINE: MIKE GREENAWAY Paris: The Springboks declared themselves off limits to the world on their first day of the Rugby World Cup, but their opposition on Sunday, Samoa, provided their usual good value although eyebrows will be raised at the sight of a white flag emerging from ...
nkosi 'not nervous'.(Sports)
Sep 05, 2007 ... BYLINE: FAROUK ABRAHAMS BAFANA BAFANA management yesterday went to ridiculous lengths to shield star striker Benni McCarthy from the media. Few were surprised, though, when the controversial Blackburn Rovers player trooped on to the UWC grounds to end yet another ...
Kallis may still get a chanceto be a T20 man after all ...(Sports)
Sep 05, 2007 ... BYLINE: STUART HESS JOHANNESBURG: Jacques Kallis may yet get the opportunity to show he can be flamboyant in limited-overs cricket if the national selectors choose him as the replacement for the injured Loots Bosman in South Africa's squad for the ICC Twenty20 world ...
Water is set to trigger more civil strife in the Sudan.(News)
Sep 06, 2007 ... BYLINE: Eva Haroun One of the issues that triggered the brutal and bloody 21-year civil war between the north and south in Sudan is again in contention and another war threatens. Should it erupt, it will again be primarily about water. Although much was made of the ...
growing links benefit both sides.(News)
Sep 06, 2007 ... BYLINE: Laurence Caromba Forget left-wing versus right-wing. In last year's Zambian elections, the main political divide was between those who were pro- and anti-China. The chief opposition party, the Patriotic Front, ran on an explicitly anti-Chinese platform ....