Cape Times (South Africa) back issues from October 2007:
Specialising in earth science.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... What does your job entail? My key responsibilities include the application of geological and geophysical seismic interpretation skills on petroleum geology, identification and evaluation of petroleum potential, and identification and promotion of exploration opportunities. ...
Become a petroleum geophysicist.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Geophysicists work closely with economists, geologists and engineers, depending on their field of specialisation. Even though you have your area of speciality you will need a reasonable level of knowledge about other speciality areas. In addition, you'll often be required to do risk ...
Find your competitive edge - and use it.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Have you ever wondered what got you your job, or a premium client? Good interview techniques, a top class curriculum vitae, a chance meeting, great contacts in your industry, being in the right place at the right time - or a combination? Sometimes we think it is luck ...
High note for young classical musicians.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... ARTSCAPE in collaboration with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and Fine Music Radio (FMR), has launched its first national youth music competition for talented young classical musicians between the ages of 14 and 19. The competition offers prizes totalling R50 000, and the ...
Metropolitan Health recruits graduates on Facebook.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Metropolitan Health Group (MHG) recently called for prospective graduates to sign up for the MHG Graduate Development Programme via the popular online social networking site Facebook. Candidates were offered the opportunity to enter MHG through workplace training programmes ...
Treating depression is good for business.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: LINDSEY TANNER Investing in depressed employees - quickly getting them treatment and even offering telephone psychotherapy - can cut absenteeism while improving workers' health, a study suggests. Many employers view mental health coverage as a financial black ...
Women are still conspicuous by their absence in the boardroom.(Workplace)
Oct 01, 2007 ... For more than 10 years South African women have been making strides in the workplace. Not long ago, boardroom make-up consisted of predominantly male executives, but according to an article published by the Business Women's Association, the South African Women in Leadership ...
Children need access to mental health services.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Alan J Flisher and Astrid Berg When Sam's parents were asked to come to the school, they were surprised. Their 12-year-old son had never been in any trouble and now there was this unexpected call. His teachers had noted a recent fall-off in his school ...
our young people exposed to countless forms of violence.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Ahmed-Riaz Mohamed and Sharain Suliman We live in a violent society within a social milieu defined more in terms of traumatisation than in terms of mental health and well-being, with children and adolescents being exposed to countless forms of community and ...
Country fair at Noordhoek.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The Noordhoek Country Fair is on October 10 at Noordhoek Common at Avonrust Circle. This annual community event aims to create community spirit and encourage visitors to have fun while enjoying the rustic country atmosphere. The Noordhoek Conservancy maintains the ...
Focus on race obscures ANC's role in crisis of poverty and unemployment.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Ebrahim Harvey Though matters of race and racism will continue to be important issues to deal with in the future, the sociological ascendancy of class over race has been patently and unmistakably clear in post-apartheid South Africa. Even within the indelible ...
Oumou Sy steals show at popular 'Documenta' expo.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Melvyn Minnaar On the eve of the final day of Documenta 12 last week, Senegal's international fashion favourite, designer Oumou Sy, stole the show. For Africans, who, this year, had a substantial presence on this important quinquennial German art event, Sy's lush and ...
Urge strikes to jump into the abyss or tape fynbos to my skull.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... By THE time you read this, if all goes well, I will have peered into the Grand Canyon, resisted the urge I always feel at the edge of things to jump into the abyss, and be merrily on my way to San |Francisco where the cold wind, I am told, bites as much as it does in Cape Town. ...
Son of adventurer Holgate catches malaria during campaign against the disease.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH WHILE adventurer and anti-malaria campaigner Kingsley Holgate hands out mosquito nets to thousands of pregnant women and young children across the African continent, a member of his own family had been battling the disease. Holgate's son, Ross, ...
First Ubuntu meeting.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The first SA Ubuntu Foundation Business Breakfast takes place on Friday at Greenways Hotel, Torquay Avenue, Claremont. Guest speaker is Hlumelo Biko, son of Steve Biko. The cost is R120. E-mail ilchen@amybiehl.co.za Dorian Haarhoff, former professor of English literature, ...
from film to theatre.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: PETER TROMP "I should have been born in Africa," says English-bornMark Dornford-May. The director came to South Africa seven years ago and has catalogued an impressive series of |successes. "I feel right at home here and am very passionate about this country, ...
R397 000 action/'fair cop' say/Selebi, Nqakula.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: FATIMA SCHROEDER THE Minister of Safety and Security, Charles Nqakula, and National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi will not oppose a Cape High Court action instituted against them by a Tokai businessman who alleges he was wrongfully arrested for a double murder. ...
Rocktober sounds.(Life)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The bands 16Stitch and 12th Avenue will launch Bertie's Moorings Rocktober fest on Friday (R50). Evolver will perform on Friday, October 12 (R50), followed by Wonderboom on October 26 (R80) and The Parlotones on October 27 (R100). Weekend passes are available on October 26 and 27 (R150) ....
Beatingunemployment.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... AFTER some 10 years of jobless growth, the South African economy is at last creating jobs. But employment statistics show that the benefits of job creation are felt very unevenly across the economy. Work by the Global Poverty Research Group reported in Business Report shows that ...
Democratic retreat.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The mask of Pakistan's governing regime continues to slip. Representatives of President Pervez Musharraf handed in their candidate's nomination for a new five-year term last week. But this formal act of respect for democratic procedure was accompanied by a government ban on public ...
Sigcawu has a duty to explain why he misled the public.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... In his letter "Housing profiteers" (September 20) Thubelisha general manager Prince Xhanti Sigcawu claimed that there were only 1 500 families in the Joe Slovo informal settlement who had not moved to Delft, and I challenged this ("Joe Slovo housing", September 21). What I did ...
Desperate measures.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... It's about time that people in ivory towers get down to street level and stop pointing fingers at others. What point is Community Safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane trying to prove by stating that Mayor Helen Zille supports vigilante groups? Does he not realise she ...
Refreshing e-mail.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Our e-mail networks are often clogged by unsolicited marketing, or supposedly funny mails sent by bored individuals who delight in stealing the time of their employers. I have only one response to those, and that is to hit the delete button. However, one of the circulated ...
Save our organ.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... In HER letter of September 28 ("City Hall upgrade"), our excellent ward councillor, Belinda Walker, addresses the concerns of those who have recently written about the state of the Cape Town City Hall. I would like to add that the City Hall's magnificent Norman and Beard organ, ...
Realistic to go nuclear.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... I refer to letters by James Cunningham and Piet Classen (September 28) about nuclear power. The problem is not so much the growing consumption of energy as the means by which we produce it. Realistically, the choice for the short term is clear: we keep burning coal ...
Qunta's wide of mark.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Christine QUNTA ("White South Africans simply don't understand African cultural practices", September 27) directs rather harsh words at white South Africans when she says that they readily demonstrate their attitudes towards African cultural practices and that "they don't understand them ...
Sports gridlock.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... It'S apparent that the sports-fixated public are not in the least concerned about the cost of tickets, travelling costs, nor the infringements placed upon them and residents in the surrounding area, as long as they can see the action! Even the traffic department's media liaison ...
City fathers criminal.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Green POINT Common could have been a wonderful recreational feature for all the people in Cape Town. It could have been our Hyde Park; a place for picnics and walks and a vlei. What our past and present ...
marathon case wrapping up.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH THE prosecution in the Inge Lotz murder case will present its closing arguments in the Cape High Court today. The trial of Fred van der Vyver, accused of stabbing and bludgeoning his girlfriend to death in her Stellenbosch flat on March 16, ...
UCT's MBA degree is rated the best in SA.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN THE MBA programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has been rated the best in South Africa in a local survey conducted by management publication Professional Management Review (PMR). The PMR result is collated from the responses of ...
Two killed, thousands left homeless in shack fires.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA and AFP FIRES in informal settlements claimed two lives and left more than 2 000 people homeless as strong winds signalled the start of the fire season. Lisa Cupido, 29, died after being severely burnt when fire razed the the Wendy house she ...
US survey votes luxury Kruger Park resort world's best again.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN IN AN AMERICAN travel survey more likely to be read by Bob De Niro than Bob the backpacker, Singita in the Kruger National Park was voted best international resort for the second time in five years, and it also topped a separate list of the 20 best ...
Nigeria sues Pfizer for $8.5bn.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... A $8.5billion lawsuit brought by Nigeria against Pfizer resumes tomorrow with the US company saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African children during a meningitis epidemic that killed 12 000. Nigeria alleges Pfizer caused the death of 11 children during clinical ...
Israeli settlers create outpost near Palestinian town.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Dozens of Israeli settlers put up tents near the Palestinian town of Halhul in the occupied West Bank yesterday to create a new wildcat outpost. The army deployed troops, but did not intervene. Three Afghans were killed in crossfire between Taliban and soldiers in Paktya, that ...
WP coachrues lackof bonuspoints ...(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: ASHFAK MOHAMED The lack of bonus points and a dismal away record has cost Western Province a place in the Currie Cup semi-finals. That is the assessment of WP coach Gary Gold after he saw his team's chances of reaching the play-off stages virtually disappear ...
Companies should get 'harsh fines' for their BEE shortcomings.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: BLISS BARBER Companies should face a "quantum" of fines as harsh as 10% of their turnover for failing to comply with Employment Equity requirements, according to the commissioner of the Employment Equity Commission, Jimmy Manyi. Addressing the University ...
Fire destroys calamari outlet.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: BLISS BARBER FOUR people have been left unemployed after flames de-stroyed the Calamari Express outlet in the CBD yesterday afternoon, leaving owner Faried Davids devastated. The Cape Town Fire Department attempted to quench the blaze by funnelling water down ...
Reports on racism distorted - cricket boss.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: KAREN BREYTENBACH CRICKET South Africa president Norman Arendse has denied a Sunday newspaper report that he blamed whites for the sport's woes. Arendse set out his views and interpretation of the sporting body's transformation policy in a discussion document ...
Moeneeb praises 'hungry' Bafana.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Siyabonga Mahlaba Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs hailed the hunger of his team-mates to book places in the African Nations Cup squad as the reason for their match-winning performance on Saturday. A hastily assembled Bafana team made up of only ...
end to guessing games?(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA CAPE Town's new deputy mayor should be known by this evening when the African Christian Democratic Party's provincial executive meets. A source within the party hinted Wesley Douglas, its national spokesperson, could get the nod after he was ...
Tests to shed light on patrol van rape.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: STAFF WRITER Forensic test results are to determine whether a policeman is identified as having raped a young Athlone woman in the back of a patrol van in Camps Bay. The woman, 20, has alleged she was stopped by two policemen as she was leaving Clifton's ...
Probe into NPA boss Pikoli expected within next few days.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA THE inquiry into suspended National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Vusi Pikoli is expected to start "within the next few days". Former National Assembly speaker Frene Ginwala, who has been tasked with leading the inquiry, was ...
Calls to replace Nqakula as the facilitator in Burundi make good sense.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Is it time for a new facilitator in Burundi? Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has been trying for a while - but so far in vain - to persuade the last armed rebel group still in the bush, the Forces Nationales de Liberation (FNL), to lay down arms and to enter the political ...
Proteas give Morkel timeuntil just before the toss.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: IQBAL KHAN Morne Morkel's injured left foot showed considerable improvement late yesterday, prompting the tour selectors to delay the announcement of the South African team for the first Test against Pakistan, starting at the National Stadium here today. The ...
Court forces patients with potentially deadly TB to return to hospital.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SAPA and STAFF writer TWO highly contagious extreme drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis patients are expected back at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital today - by either readmitting themselves or being forced back by a Cape High Court order. On Friday, the court ...
US Navy's latest guided missile destroyer docks at V&A Waterfront.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: BLISS BARBER THE US Navy's newest guided missile destroyer, USS Forrest Sherman, docked at the V&A Waterfront yesterday morning in conclusion of a four-day exercise with the South African Navy. The event was a success for the new US Naval Forces Southeast ...
SA summons Myanmar's envoyto express concern over violence.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Hans Pienaar PRETORIA: After being slammed by human rights campaigners last year when it voted against UN Security Council action against the military government of Myanmar (formerly Burma), South Africa summoned Myanmar's ambassador at the weekend. This ...
Bidders say cheers to low wine prices.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... PRICES at the 33rd Nederburg auction took a tumble at the weekend when buyers only spent R5.1 million on 5 287 cases of wine, compared to the R6.9m raised last year. But this is good news for wine consumers, who would again benefit as increased interest rates and the volatility ...
Bloody fist fight at Canal Walkshocks shoppers.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY SHOPPERS and their children were horrified yesterday when three men "beat one another to a bloody pulp" outside a busy restaurant in the Canal Walk shopping centre. Security guards were called to break up the fight and the men had to be escorted ...
leadership race in top gear.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: WENDY JASSON DA COSTA THE ANC's nomination process starts today and branches in good standing can openly discuss their favourite candidates without fear of retribution. The already hotly contested leadership race moves into top gear as branches meet from this ...
Belhar fisherman goes missing at sea.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... WESTERN CAPE divers and rescuers yesterday launched a search for a Belhar resident who disappeared after the boat he was on capsized near Melkbosstrand. Divers, emergency services, a helicopter search team and the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) joined in the search for ...
Neighbours say no, no, no to noisy sex.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BERLIN: A German woman has been evicted from her home because of her noisy lovemaking. Alenka Schmidt, 34, was accused by her landlady of breaching the peace. Evicting her, the landlady wrote: "Neighbours, not just where you live but in adjacent houses, complained of ...
Wang, King cause red faces in Bangkok.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BANGKOK: Tennis pundits were reportedly red-faced when they had to comment on a match between two players called Wang and King. The TV commentators had no choice but to say the players' last names one after the other during long rallies, says the Sun. To make things ...
Argentina forwards send warning to Boks.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: PETER BILLS Argentina confirmed they are the closest danger to South Africa's dreams of a World Cup final place by putting out Ireland with a 30-15 victory and moving to within 80 minutes of a showdown with the Springboks. The Pumas laid the foundations for ...
Celtic tame Leopards in Bloem.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Mzwakhe Ngwenya Seisa Ramabodu is not a venue that many teams relish visiting because of Bloemfontein Celtic's vociferous mass following. Black Leopards, yesterday, were the victims of the force behind the Khabo Zondo-led team, when they lost the Telkom ...
Shack fires leavepeople destitute.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... could see the flames. "We managed to run outside, shouting at the neighbours. I called my brother who lives nearby to wake him," said Nosicelo, She lost everything, as did most of the people who lost their homes. The flames also destroyed two overhead ...
Pacy Chiefs win through after bombarding Swallows.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: Matshelane Mamabolo Through to the quarter-finals of the lucrative Telkom Knockout, Muhsin Ertugral had good reason to be happy on Saturday night. The Kaizer Chiefs coach had just lead his side to overcoming a stubborn Moroka Swallows 3-1 in a penalty shootout ...
R15m jackpotas national lottery returns.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... DURBAN: Lucky lottery players could win up to R15 million as the national lottery returns this week following its relaunch under lottery operator Gidani. Tickets go on sale at 7 000 retailers countrywide on Friday, with the first draw to take place on Saturday, October 13. ...
UCT's MBA degree is rated the best in SA.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: DOMINIQUE HERMAN THE MBA programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has been rated the best in in a South African survey by management publication Professional Management Review (PMR). The PMR finding was collated from the responses of 478 line ...
Court orders patients with potentially deadly TB to return to hospital.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: SAPA and STAFF writer TWO highly contagious extreme drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis patients are expected back at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital today - by readmitting themselves or compelled to return under a Cape High Court order. On Friday, the court ...
Shack fires leavepeople destitute.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... could see the flames. "We managed to run outside, shouting at the neighbours. I called my brother who lives nearby to wake him," said Nosicelo, She lost everything, as did most of the people whose homes were razed. The flames also destroyed two overhead ...
end to guessing games?(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA CAPE Town's new deputy mayor should be known by this evening when the African Christian Democratic Party's provincial executive meets. A source in the party hinted that Wesley Douglas, ACDP national spokesperson, could get the nod. He has been ...
Nigerian case against Pfizer resumes tomorrow.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... An $8.5billion lawsuit brought by Nigeria against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer resumes tomorrow. Nigeria alleges Pfizer caused the deaths of 11 children during clinical trials for a new drug. Eight killed in Somalia clashes At least eight people were killed in separate ...
Najwa's father and cousin killed in car crash.(News)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: CARYN DOLLEY THE father and a cousin of Najwa Petersen - who is behind bars awaiting trial following the murder of her music legend husband, Taliep Petersen - have died in a car crash near the Namibian border. Details of the accident remained sketchy late last ...
BJ may be out of World Cup.(Monday Sports Supplement)
Oct 01, 2007 ... BYLINE: kevin mccallum and MIKE GREENAWAY South Africa suffered their second injury blow of the World Cup last night when tighthead prop BJ Botha was today expected to be ruled out with knee ligament damage after the Springboks' 64-15 victory over the United States last night. ...